I am very pleased to welcome several new contributors to “Brains”: Kristina Musholt is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. She has published papers on self-consciousness and the relationships between conceptual and non-conceptual forms of representation. Miguel Angel Sebastián …
Via Brian Leiter, this post by Paul Thagard criticizes what he claims are eleven “dogmas” of “analytic philosophy”, which he describes as the attempt “to use the study of language and logic to analyze concepts that are important for the study of knowledge (epistemology), reality (metaphysics), and morality (ethics)”. Against …
A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind led by John Heil, 10 June – 12 July 2013. Visiting faculty will include E. J. Lowe, Graham Oddie and Alyssa Ney. Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical …
Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5, in legible if messy writing. This is an unremarkable feat for a human, but Spaun is actually …
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013 Venue: The British Academy,10-11 Carlton House Terrace,London SW1Y 5AHTuesday 26 March 2013, 9am – 5.30pm Wednesday 27 March 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm Thursday 28 March 2013, 9.30am – 1.00pm In addition: special demonstration of sensory substitution and augmentation devices on …
To any and all in the Tri-State area you are invited to the 3rd Qualia Fest. Organized by the New York Consciousness Collective the Qualia Fest is an annual event that celebrates the music of philosophers and cognitive scientists. When: Monday December 10th 2012 Where: The Bowery Electric 327 Bowery …
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.
