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, …
In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold. The first argument is that images are only instrumental and cognitively inferior, and knowledge traditionally consists of true …
