A series of blog posts featuring scholars in the philosophy and science of mind.
I would like to start by thanking the editors of The Brains Blog, especially Cameron Buckner, for giving me the opportunity to discuss some of the ideas I had about the human and ape minds while observing a group of mother and infant chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania, …
I am extremely pleased to introduce Maria Botero, who will contribute several featured posts at the Brains blog beginning this coming week. Maria is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, TX. Prior to that she obtained her PhD …
A number of philosophers have suggested that delusional people do not believe their delusions; they only imagine them and then mistake their imagining for a belief (Greg Currie has a view along these lines: in his recent book, Phil Gerrans defends a related view). What follows are a few inchoate …
For the remainder of my posts here, I’m going to move on to new work, and try out some ideas. This post will continue on the theme of consciousness, but turn to a very different question. The work I will discuss in this post is conducted in collaboration with Will …
This post continues on from the last. I’m going to assume the claims I made in that post – in particular, that implicit attitudes are patchy endorsements – though in fact what I will say would go through on most rival views (the only extant view on which it would be …
Let me begin by thanking John Schwenkler for the invitation to blog here at Brains. I’m not really a specialist in philosophy of mind (or in, well, anything) but a lot of my recent work is concerned with mind-y (and brain-y) issues. I find it hard to get excited about …
It is my pleasure to introduce Neil Levy as the current Featured Scholar at the Brains blog, where he’ll contribute a series of posts over this week and the next. Neil is a Futures Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He is based in the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne as well as …
