Posting at Brains will be predictably quiet during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, but we do have some excellent content on the calendar, including: Anne Jaap Jacobson will blog about her work, including her new book Keeping the World in Mind, beginning December 4. Matthew Fulkerson will blog about his work, including his new …
Another video discussion from the Institute for Art and Ideas:
I wanted to thank readers for reading, commenters for commenting, and Kristina Musholt for inviting me to be a guest blogger. Three cheers for Brains! The discussions here gave me a chance to think out loud about some questions that are dangling from a book manuscript I’m circulating. It’s called *The Rationality of Perception*. Among other …
The editors of the Brains blog, together with the Departments of Philosophy at Florida State University and the University of Houston, are pleased to announce that the first annual Minds Online conference will be held at the Brains blog during the month of September, 2015. The conference will feature invited …
You can nominate your favorites until the end of the day on Nov. 17, perhaps choosing from any of our featured posts by Jakob Hohwy, Kristin Andrews, Dan Weiskopf, and Susanna Siegel. Anything published since Nov. 9 of last year is fair game. However, nominations are limited to the first …
In this post I want to focus on a distinction that has come up in both comment threads. It’s the distinction between inferences, and factors that regulate inferences. Here’s an example. It’s about wishful thinking.
On July 4th and 5th 2015, just before the ASSC conference on Consciousness in Paris, we are organizing a workshop to discuss advances in the sensorimotor approach. All are welcome! See here for the call for papers: https://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/feel/?page_id=691
