Is neuroscience ready to replace philosophy?
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
CFP – Technological Mediation & Changing Conceptions of Humanity
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 …
Precis of Attention (Routledge)
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 …
It Takes Talent, Determination, Good Teachers, and Deliberate Practice
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, …
Consciousness in the predictive mind
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 …
Two new calls for papers
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 …
Recent Work by Brains Contributors
Sorry not to have done one of these posts in a while! The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers from April through June. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Marcus Arvan (forthcoming). A Unified Explanation of Quantum Phenomena? The Case for the Peer-to-Peer Simulation …