Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain
It’s the title of a provocative new article in Nature Neuroscience. For those interested in free will and the brain.
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Real Time Neurofeedback using fMRI
Here is a 3 min video about it. A little hyped, but pretty cool. (Hat tip to Ritesh Mehta.)
The revenge of Quine-Duhem
Below is a reference to a recent paper showing specific ways in which (some) data collected using a certain data acquisition system (Plexon) are not trustworthy (from the Journal of Neuroscience Methods). This is significant, as a very large number of labs use Plexon. This could be an interesting case …
Philosophers’ Carnival #67
Here.
Trinitarian Metaphysics
This has little to do with brains and minds, but I have a student writing a paper on it, and it behooves me to understand what he is talking about.According to Catholic orthodoxy, God consists of three different Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. How can that …
Results of Nature’s Survey on Neuroenhancement
Here.
A Useful Complement to the Philosophy Gourmet Report
Thanks to a link sent to me by Bob Gordon, I just discovered a useful list of philosophy resources created by Anthony Cole of the Worwick School fo Law. There is a ranking of philosophy journals, HPS programs, and much more. There are also rankings of philosophy departments around the world based …