Introducing Jakob Hohwy
It’s my pleasure to introduce Jakob Hohwy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Philosophy Department at Monash University, as our next featured scholar here at Brains.
Category: perception;neuroscience
Aliens versus materialists (Part III): Phenomenal concepts to the rescue?
A year ago we met an alien species (Part I) that lacked subjective conscious states but were virtuoso scientists. They developed a detailed understanding of cat brains at every level of organization, but still did not realize that cats were conscious. This was parlayed into an argument for dualism (Part …
London’s Institute of Philosophy awarded £1.9 million for research on the senses
Here is the full story; here is an excerpt: The Institute of Philosophy, a member institute of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, has been awarded a major research grant of £1,950,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The research grant will support a three-year project based …
Attention Discussion Blog: The Phenomenology of Attention
Dear Readers of the Brains Blog: I’m in the final stages of writing the chapter on the phenomenology of attention for a book on attention for Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532242/ I thought I would both encourage general discussion of issues regarding attention and also solicit feedback on the text, parts of which …
Every experience of the visible has always been given to me within the context of the movements of the look
A post on Molyneux’s question that I wrote for this blog back in 2011 has since blossomed into a full-blown article on the subject, which was published in the most recent issue of Analysis (for an ungated copy, see here). Here is the abstract of the article: Do spatial features …
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013 Venue: The British Academy,10-11 Carlton House Terrace,London SW1Y 5AHTuesday 26 March 2013, 9am – 5.30pm Wednesday 27 March 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm Thursday 28 March 2013, 9.30am – 1.00pm In addition: special demonstration of sensory substitution and augmentation devices on …
Conscious Vision in Action
Robert Briscoe and I have been working for quite some time on a paper that synthesizes work that the two of us had been doing independently concerning the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis. Each of us is concerned (albeit with somewhat different motivations) to defend the idea that conscious visual awareness …