Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s book Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences offers a compelling non-reductionist approach to understanding the furniture of the mind: the ‘real kinds’ of cognitive science. This book is a thoughtful and timely addition to current debates over the ontology of the mind-brain sciences. In these …
This week the Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s new book Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences (Cambridge University Press). Over the next four days, we will have four posts from Khalidi summarizing central arguments within the book as well as four commentary posts …
We are pleased to announce the next Brains Blog Roundtable, which discusses the Free Energy Principle and the debate between realism and illusionism about consciousness. Please join Majid D. Beni and our excellent panellists Karl Friston (UCL), Mark Solms (University of Cape Town), Krzysztof (Krys) Dolega (Université Libre de Bruxelles), …
We’re excited to share the CFA for the next iteration of the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup’s annual Phil Neuro extravaganza at the beach! See the details below! You can follow updates at the workshop’s PhilEvents page here: https://philevents.org/event/show/110697.
Authors love when their books are being read. They love it even more when their books are being discussed. I’ve happily been in this position where the commentators have taken their time and effort to read my book and share their ideas. I am very grateful to Marcin Milkowski, Mariela …
Piotr Kozak’s insightful Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023) offers an original contribution to the philosophy and psychology of imagistic thinking. He carefully examines some challenges against imagistic thinking (esp. Ch. 2), and then develops an account of imagistic content (Ch. 6) and of imagistic thinking in light of measurement theory …
In his book Thinking with images, Kozak starts from the assumption that any theory of thinking must face three challenges: the epistemological, the semantical, and the metaphysical. So, the book can be seen as an intent to develop a theory of imaginistic thinking that meets these challenges. To do that, …
