I now have a full draft of my book on concepts, Doing Without Concepts (OUP). A small reading group at Pitt (Bogen, Glymour…) gave me some invaluable feedback on the previous draft (actually, we are reading the last chapters). If a few readers of Brains are interested, I’d like to …
The website Interdisciplines is running a web-based workshop on Adaptation and Representations. Readers oif Brains might want to check the discussion.
[Post by Neil Levy]Brains blogger Ken Aizawa is well-known for (among other things) his opposition to the extended mind thesis. To refresh your memories, the extended mind thesis is the view, associated especially with Andy Clark (but also subscribed to by fellow-blogger Rob Wilson, as well as a growing number …
Cfp on the topic of Imagination and Creativity for the Arts and Neurosciences Review Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France (Deadline: February 15, 2007) ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW Established in the Institut Jean Nicod, an interdisciplinary lab interface between the humanities and the cognitive sciences, ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW presents articles, …
Last Call for papers(Deadline: December 1, 2006)OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTIONIssue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHYhttps://www.erp-review.org
Corey Maley found this nice Halloween tribute to a great man.
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 …
