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By Brandon Towl I was hoping the readers of Brains could help me out with a paper suggestion: I am looking for a paper that would be a good example of a study from computational neuroscience and/or computer modeling in cognitive science. Something that shows  the basics of the approach– …

By Kelly Trogdon Hello all, This is my first post here – thanks Gualtiero for inviting me.   As I read Chalmers’ “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” (2002), he claims that a state of positive conceivability is positive in virtue of involving a “positive intuition” of a situation, and to have …

This is inspired by a discussion I had over on Evolving Thoughts. Perhaps one way to approach part of Fodor’s argument against natural selection is to focus on the lack of a “free-rider” type problem in other areas of science. I’m curious what others think of this. So, define a …

The conceptual distinction between representational vehicles and representational contents is very old, probably older than Plato. Lately, however, I’ve been wondering when the first use of this actual terminology emerged. Pete Mandik took time out from hammering brains to tell me he thinks the first use of this terminology might …

(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I plan on writing a series of posts discussing various themes that came up in discussion at the online consciousness conference over the next few weeks.  I have long been a type-type identity theorist. There was a time when I thought that I would write my …