AI and Agency: Karl Friston
Please join us for the final installment of our interview series on AI and Agency, featuring Karl Friston in discussion with Brains editor Majid D. Beni!
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From Cognitive Science to the Mind Sciences
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editor Dan Burnston. A lot of philosophers still consider themselves …
Work with Us at Brains! Call for Associate Editor Self-Nominations
Hi All, Brains relies on contributions from scholars working in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. It is a volunteer-run organization, but also one of the major public venues for work in the field. If you would like to contribute to this project, please consider self-nominating for one of our …
Memorial Symposium: In Honor of Paul F. Snowdon
By Tony Cheng In Memorial of Paul F. Snowdon Paul Snowdon began his academic journey as an undergraduate at University College, Oxford, where he was mentored by Sir. Peter Strawson. He later served as a tutorial fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1971 to 2001. Following this, he held the …
SSPP 2025: Sarah Robins on SSPP
By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the SSPP. The SSPP is, …
This Week: SSPP and Brains!
This week we are very happy to co-host a series of posts with the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, featuring work from this year’s annual meeting! Today, Sarah Robins will outline the mission of SSPP, and what makes it such a great venue. Then, the rest of the week …
Pleasure and Desire
Explaining our Actions: A Critique of Common-Sense Theorizing (CUP, 2025)Peter Carruthers 3. Pleasure and desire Much of the remainder of the book evaluates the standard model of action-explanation itself. Chapter 5 discusses decision making in light of one’s beliefs and desires, resulting in intentions to act. Here there is much …