A recent article in the Washington Post discusses an interesting study by Harrison Pope, in which he and his collaborators attempt to test the thesis that dissociative (traumatically-induced) amnesia is a comparatively recent historical phenomenon that should not be grouped with ‘biologically-based’ psychiatric disorders such as dementia and schizophrenia. Here …
Dear colleagues, I’m working on a book project in philosophy of mind. If you would, could you let me know whether/how often philosophy of mind courses are organized thematically and/or cover one issue, such as mental causation or consciousness or freewill or personal identity … ? The intended contrast is …
Hi all, As my previous post said it (loud), the submission deadline for IJCNN (Orlando, 12-17 August, 2007) has been extended to feb 12. So, all the readers of Brains, are also invited to submit to our special session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling. The special session considers research and development …
Please share with any students who may be interested. Thanks, Eddy! The Philosophy Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is accepting applications from qualified undergraduates for its two $15,000 Neurophilosophy Fellowships, to be awarded by the Brains & Behavior program. The Brains & Behavior program at GSU aims …
I find this fascinating: In the survey, a quiz was presented to respondents in order to test the knowledge onscience and technology. The test subjects were citizens of EU. https://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_224_report_en.pdfsee especially pages 41-44Results of this quiz show that for most statements a majority of citizens in theEuropean Union answered correctly, …
I open a thread for eventual comments on Chapter 2. Comments can of course be sent to me by e-mail. Thanks for those of you who read the chapter and commented on it. Abstract In Chapter 2, I distinguish two meanings of the term “concept” in philosophy—concepts as capacities …
I open a thread where you can leave some comments on chap. 1. A few of you have already sent me written comments. Many thanks.
