Via Kristin Andrews (who, incidentally, will be a featured scholar at Brains beginning in mid-September) comes news of a “reboot” of the Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds (yes, SPAM), which is “a means to promote and support the work of philosophers and scientists interested in philosophical questions about …
Of course not! Still, here are Maggie Boden, Barry Smith, and Steven Rose discussing the question at a forum hosted by the Institute for Art and Ideas: Watch more videos on iai.tv
Please see the following Call for Authors: https://philevents.org/event/show/15174 (Feel free to contact me, if you have questions.) Cheers! Frank Scalambrino https://udallas.academia.edu/FrankScalambrino Summary Version of the Call for Authors: This edited volume seeks to bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss the social effects of technological mediation, focusing on the …
A precis of my book, Attention, can be found at Lisa Bortolotti’s blog, Imperfect Cognitions: https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.de/2014/07/attention.html Both Lisa and I were featured scholars here as Jakob is now (thanks John). I still(!) think attention is important and happy to have any discussion of the topic or on the book, here …
Today’s NY Times has an article about a new paper in Psychological Science on whether talent or practice is more important for elite performance. In a meta-analysis, the psychologists “found that deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, …
The prediction error minimization (PEM) account of brain function may explain perception, learning, action, attention and understanding. That at least is what its proponents claim, and I suggested in an earlier post that perhaps the brain does nothing but minimize its prediction error. So far I haven’t talked explicitly about …
Here is one, for a special issue of Topoi on “The Geometry of the Visual Field: Early Modern and Contemporary Approaches”. It arises from a workshop held in Fribourg last fall, where I gave a paper. Several excellent philosophers and psychologists are already confirmed as contributors. The submission deadline is October …
