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.
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, …
This was a nice surprise. Someone wrote a list of the top 100 Mental Health and Psychology Blogs and included us.
Here.
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 …
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.
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, as I have been trying to get Philosophy Sucks! off the ground (thanks to everyone who has come over and checked it out) and I am abivalent towards the practice of one author posting the same post on several blogs, …
