Here: President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, senior administration officials said Monday. A senior administration scientist compared the new initiative to the Human Genome Project, in that it …
Nicholas Humphrey and Galen Strawson take on the big questions in a debate hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas .
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. For example, two papers published in the 2011 issue have already been anthologized. The 2013 is mostly full …
This is my first ‘real’ blog post, and before I begin, I’d like to thank John for inviting me to contribute to this blog (and apologize for the fact that it’s taken me while to get around to doing so). Many thanks for giving me this opportunity! I have recently …
Workshop on “What is cognition?” in Bochum, June 27-29, 2013 The workshop invites contributions exploring any and all issues that can move us toward an answer to the question, “what is cognition?”. Contributions are welcome to address a particular view already championed in the literature or bring forward original suggestions …
LMU Munich, 14-16 November 2013 The conference invites proposals for talks that address the inter- or intratheoretic relations of specific theories or provide precise notions of such relations for the application in the sciences. Submission Process Please submit both a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (500-1000 …
xposted at idontknowwhatiam another attempt to popularise what I do! Continuing the theme of providing popular summaries of my papers today I’d like to talk a little about anosognosia for hemiplegia and some implications the disorder has for understanding how we represent our own bodies.
