I’ve been asked to assist in distributing this CFP: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** “Mind, Brain, and Experience:At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine” April 10-11, 2008Denver, Colorado hosted by University of Colorado Denver Department of Philosophywith support fromUniversity of Colorado President’s Fund for the HumanitiesandUniversity of Colorado Center …
Today’s NY Times has a nice article on recent evidence that contrary to popular belief (especially among philosophers), some animals have a form of episodic memory and the ability to plan for future events.
Brains regulars may know that Fred Adams and I have been trying to put up the good fight against extended cognition. (Rob Rupert has been in there, too, of course.) We now have five works on the topic “forthcoming.” Our latest addition to this future literature is a paper of …
Elisabetta Lalumera posted a comment with an interesting question:“What is cognitive economy? Sometimes philosophers and psychologists evaluate proposals on the graounds that they fare well/bad at cognitive economy (e.g. on-the-fly concept views, like Barsalou’s, would avoid the storage cost of concepts in semantic memory, etc.).”“Any suggestion about what to look …
I always thought existentialism was the exclusive province of some continental philosophers. Well, I was wrong. There appears to be a growing literature of psychologists investigating empirically the existential concerns of people as well as the psychological strategies they adopt to cope with existential concerns, the effects those concerns have …
Someone sent me an article on a model of female response to stress that was developed in recent years by Shelley Taylor, a social psychologist at UCLA. Since I was unaware of this model and found it interesting, I thought I would share. Here is how the article begins: Move …
Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before – deja vu: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5194382.stm.
