Philosophy has lost one of its greats, Fred Dretske. Among other things, he authored the classic Knowledge and the Flow of Information which is a key source for information-based semantic theories. At a personal level, he was always kind and patient with me, a neuroscientist, peppering him with questions via email, …
I’m going to have a post up soon introducing Lisa Bortolotti as Brains’ featured scholar for the month of July, but in the meantime there is some more exciting news to announce. First, CMU’s Wayne Wu has agreed to be a featured scholar during the month of August, when he’ll …
The following articles by Brains contributors were posted to PhilPapers in the past month. Please let me know of any oversights! — JS Richard Brown (2013). Chalmers’ “Unholy Stew”: Review of Constructing the World by David Chalmers. The Philosophers’ Magazine (61):115-118. Pete Mandik (2013). What is Visual and Phenomenal but …
A massive June edition at Siris.
has an excellent and most interesting review of Shulman’s book on brain imaging. Check it out at NDPR
The following books and articles by Brains contributors were posted to PhilPapers in the past month. Please let me know of any oversights! — JS
Call for Papers Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013) 12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy Organizers: Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo) & Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford) Website: https://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013 In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely …
