CFA: Summer School of Ideas in Neuroscience
The following opportunity may be of interest to some Brains Blog readers! https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2023/
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Brains Blog Roundtable: Buddhism in Philosophy of Mind
We are delighted to announce the next in our series of Brains Blog Roundtables. The topic of this discussion is Buddhism in Philosophy of Mind! Please join Dan Burnston and our very exciting panel, Monima Chadha (Monash), Owen Flanagan (Duke), and Evan Thompson (UBC) for a fantastic discussion about how …
Neural Mechanisms 2023 Talk Lineup Announced!
Hi All, Our friends at Neural Mechanisms have announced their talk lineup for 2023, and as usual it will be a great set of speakers. See the schedule below, and check out neuralmechanisms.org for more information! February 3, h 16 – 18 (CET)John W. KRAKAUER(Johns Hopkins University) February 17, h 16 – …
Why Neuroscience Refutes the Language of Thought
The contemporary (Fodor-style) Language of Thought (LOT) hypothesis (not to be confused with Sellars’s reasonable hypothesis that some neural processes are somewhat analogous to linguistic episodes) is that many cognitive capacities widespread within the animal kingdom, such as perception, navigation, or caching, are explained by processing language-like representations like those …
International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
We are delighted to inform the philosophy community of a newly founded international society: International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) The International Society for the Sciences of the Mind is a hub for connecting researchers around the globe in all areas of the philosophy …
Elms, Beeches, and Olive Branches
In my final post, I want to consider a very compelling objection. The objection can be pitched abstractly enough to undermine – seemingly – what I have claimed so far this week. The response to the objection is contained in the final Chapter of Talking About, called ‘Good Cases, Bad …
Let’s Talk About Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was famous both as pianist and the Prime Minister of Poland. Thus, it is easy to imagine that someone is familiar with him in both roles but mistakenly thinks that there are two people involved, not one. It is easy because being both a famous pianist and …