Reduced in Kirchberg
I’m just back from Kirchberg am Wechsel where the annual Wittgenstein Symposium took place. This year’s edition was vastly inspiring for me – maybe because the good old Ludwig never really featured in plenary talks.
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Philosophy of (Neuro)Science Discussion on Comp-neuro
A fascinating discussion on the nature of scientific modeling, inter-level explanation, hierarchical decomposition, etc., in computational neuroscience has been unfolding over the last couple of weeks on the Comp-neuro newsgroup. Archives can be found here.
Substantival dualists believe …., neuroscientists believe …
In the philosophical literature, it is common enough to find phrases such as “Substantival dualists believe …” and “Neuroscientists believe …” Yet, these can be dramatically different from an epistemological perspective. The former will often state a definition or logical consequence of what it is to be a substantival dualist, …
Brains in the top 100 Mental Health and Psychology Blogs
This was a nice surprise. Someone wrote a list of the top 100 Mental Health and Psychology Blogs and included us.
Philosopher’s Carnival #75
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Tips on Publishing in Graduate School
Yesterday I gave a little workshop about publishing to some graduate students (as part of Washington University’s Future Directions in Genetic Studies Graduate Training Workshop). Here is a list of tips:1. Make a personal web page. It’s the cheapest and easiest way to advertize yourself to the world. Post your …
Biorepresentations: necessary but not sufficient?
What follows is a working definition of how some people in neuroscience use the term ‘representation,’ and a brief examination of that usage.
Definition of biorepresentation:
A biorepresentation is an internal structure whose role is to carry information about what is happening in the world, a structure that is used by downstream processes to guide behavior with respect to those bits of the world that it carries information about.