Speaking of evolutionary theory, I’m going to propose a “new-ish” course dealing with evolution and the mind. The goal is to cover some topics in psychology/neuroscience from an evolutionary perspective. The problem is to find a good title. Here are some options: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Evolutionary Psychology Minds, Brains, and …
This is inspired by a discussion I had over on Evolving Thoughts. Perhaps one way to approach part of Fodor’s argument against natural selection is to focus on the lack of a “free-rider” type problem in other areas of science. I’m curious what others think of this. So, define a …
The conceptual distinction between representational vehicles and representational contents is very old, probably older than Plato. Lately, however, I’ve been wondering when the first use of this actual terminology emerged. Pete Mandik took time out from hammering brains to tell me he thinks the first use of this terminology might …
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I finally updated most of my website after over a year of neglect. With help from Jim Virtel, we added a whole bunch of new links to my list of resources for students, such as information on how to study, apply to grad school, publish, and apply for jobs. Let me …
C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book. I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I plan on writing a series of posts discussing various themes that came up in discussion at the online consciousness conference over the next few weeks. I have long been a type-type identity theorist. There was a time when I thought that I would write my …
