Posting at Brains will be predictably quiet during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, but we do have some excellent content on the calendar, including: Anne Jaap Jacobson will blog about her work, including her new book Keeping the World in Mind, beginning December 4. Matthew Fulkerson will blog about his work, including his new …
I wanted to thank readers for reading, commenters for commenting, and Kristina Musholt for inviting me to be a guest blogger. Three cheers for Brains! The discussions here gave me a chance to think out loud about some questions that are dangling from a book manuscript I’m circulating. It’s called *The Rationality of Perception*. Among other …
You can nominate your favorites until the end of the day on Nov. 17, perhaps choosing from any of our featured posts by Jakob Hohwy, Kristin Andrews, Dan Weiskopf, and Susanna Siegel. Anything published since Nov. 9 of last year is fair game. However, nominations are limited to the first …
I’ve just installed a lovely new plug-in that makes it possible to append your comments not just to the bottom of a post, but to the particular paragraph that you’re interested in discussing. To do this, just hover over the paragraph in question, and look for the little “talk” box, like …
One of the most neglected perspectives in traditional philosophy of mind/cogsci is that the mind is a biological system, and that therefore philosophy of mind/cogsci is a branch of philosophy of biology. Fortunately, Justin Garson has just published The Biological Mind (Routledge), an introduction to the philosophy of mind that …
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As you’ve no doubt noticed, I have installed a new “theme” that’s changed the appearance of the blog, especially with an eye toward being able to feature more posts at the top of the main page. Please let me know if there are any difficulties with the new format, or …
