The European Science Foundation has been working on ranking academic journals in various disciplines. Here are their brand new rankings of journals in philosophy and in history and philosophy of science.I recently spoke with a member of the committee that ranked philosophy journals. He explained the ESF criteria as follows:Journals that …
Carl Craver, Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, OUP, 2007. The book has been released in Europe. Americans will have to wait a few more weeks, though they can pre-oder it at Amazon. I observed the development of this book from its very beginning, and I …
Results published in the last issue of Science, as reported in today’s NYT.
Wired reports that in a paper just published in Biophysics Journal, two physicists suggest that neurons communicate by sending pressure waves (rather than electrical signals, as everyone else believes) through their axons. (Link courtesy of Blake Myers.)
Gualtiero Piccinini and Sam Scott’s paper “Splitting Concepts” together with my reply “How to Split Concepts: A Reply to Piccinini and Scott” is now published in Philosophy of Science (73, 4). This is a very nice exchange and I hope it will get other people interested in this issue. Edouard …
… is a book by Arnold Trehub that is now available online, along with a few other papers by him.
Some European researchers have published a book, entitled “Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society,” which covers both the possibilities of intervention offered by cutting-edge neuroscience and the philosophical and political issues that such interventions raise.
