McCulloch in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
An interesting bunch of papers on McCulloch are available here. Now we have a fairly nice collection of papers that can throw some light on early computationalism.
Brains welcomes two new contributors
I’m glad to announce that Robert Briscoe and Myrto Mylopoulos are the newest contributors to Brains. For those of you who don’t know their work (and you should!), Myrto is a Ph.D. candidate at CUNY doing important work on the relationship between action and consciousness, and Robert is Associate Professor …
New Waves in Philosophy of Mind Online Conference
3rd-17th December 2012 Supported by Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity Conference website (registration required): https://goo.gl/p8koN The New Waves in Philosophy of Mind online conference opens on 3rd December 2012 and runs for 2 weeks. Written versions of papers from the speakers will be posted on the …
CFP: Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology
Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology, Sheffield: April 20-21, 2013 Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2012 The Leverhulme-funded Implicit Bias and Philosophy Project (www.biasproject.org) announces its fourth and final event, a conference on Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology. Authors of accepted papers will have the costs of their conference attendance (including …
Brains' Has a New Administrator
After several years in which I managed Brains, it’s time for someone else to take the lead. I am delighted to announce that, from now on, John Schwenkler will be Brains’ new administrator. Given how talented and thoughtful John is, Brains is in excellent hands. If you’d like to contribute …
Neural Computation and the Computational Theory of Cognition
The paper by that title, co-authored with neuroscientist Sonya Bahar, is now available on “early view” in the journal Cognitive Science. I think that means it’s available to the authors but not to the public yet. If anyone wants a copy, please let me know. This is perhaps the most …
2012 Synthese Issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
The journal Synthese publishes a yearly issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. In recent years, this has been perhaps the highest profile venue explicitly devoted to articles in the philosophy of neuroscience. It is my pleasure to announce that the 2012 special issue is now in press. It will be …