UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO. Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters (pending administrative approval), Department of Philosophy. Begins Spring Semester (January 15) 2012 or later. AOS: philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and computing. AOC: open. The postdoctoral fellow will work …
Looking at MRI signals in visual cortex, researchers were able to reconstruct, with varying degrees of success, the movie clips people were watching (examples below in movie). The most obvious applications we could extrapolate to are for folks who are paralyzed, or perhaps even during dreaming. What I find most …
Content and Consciousness 2.0. Four Decades After. Book Proposal, to be submitted to the Studies in Brain and Mind Series (Springer). In Content and Consciousness (1969) Daniel Dennett introduced some pillars of his influential work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of evolution and cognitive science. This book promoted some notable …
Healthline.com recently launched a free interactive “Human Brain in 3D” tool that might be useful, e.g. to introduce undergraduate students to brain anatomy.
Congratulations are in order for Brainer John Schwenkler, whose post Has Molyneux’s Question Been Answered? took Strange Quark (second place) in the Three Quarks Daily blog contest! Congratulations John!
Here: https://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=1845
From over at the Smoker I learn that David Morrow and Chris Sula have started a Jobs Board to ‘supplement’ that of the apa. Please spread the word!
