Apparently, famous identity-theorist U.T. Place’s brain is preserved at University of Adelaide. See here. You’ll notice that it’s left hemisphere (right facing you) is huge compared to it’s right. Is this some evidence for the old logic and language in the left-brain idea (assuming Place was quite logical–and perhaps not …
There is great interest in sensory coding. Studies of sensory coding typically involve recording from sensory neurons during stimulus presentation, and the investigators determine which aspects of the neuronal response are most informative about the stimulus. These studies are left with a decoding problem: are the discovered codes, sometimes quite exotic, ultimately used by the nervous system to guide behavior? In our one-day workshop, researchers with many different backgrounds will evaluate what we know about neuronal decoders and suggest new strategies, both experimental and computational, for addressing the decoding problem.
The following cfp might be of interest to the brain community: OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTION, Issue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHY), eds. Nicolas J. Bullot and Paul Egré, deadline: Dec. 1, guest authors: Stephen Davies, Michael Kubovy, Mohan Matthen (more info on the website). The ERP is now …
Another group-blog for philosophy of mind has sprung into existence: Brain Pains. Contributors so far are Brad Thompson, Phillippe Chuard, and Robert Howell. Is the blogosphere big enough for Brains and Brain Pains? Of course!
As some of you know from previous posts, Sam Scott and I have written a paper on Splitting Concepts, forthcoming in Philosophy of Science. When it comes out, our paper will be followed by a response by Edouard Machery, entitled How to Split Concepts (posted with his permission). He did a …
I’m out of town until the end of the month.
