The special issue of The Journal of Consciousness Studies that I edited featuring descendants of selected papers from the first online consciousness conference is now out (including an excellent piece by Gualtiero that he bloged about previously)…it is entitled ‘Fishy and Here’ (from Clare Batty’s paper)…I hope that is meant as an …
Brains readers interested in extended cognition, please stop by my blog. https://theboundsofcognition.blogspot.com/ I post something small almost every day with each day’s post more or less closely related to the previous ones, like a stream of semi-consciousness… Thanks, Ken
By Jim Virtel For the first time in its storied 4.5 year history, Brains will be hosting the Philosophers’ Carnival on Monday, April 26th! We will accept submissions in any area of philosophy but will give preference to posts concerning philosophy of mind broadly construed. The submission deadline is April …
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By Brandon Towl I was hoping the readers of Brains could help me out with a paper suggestion: I am looking for a paper that would be a good example of a study from computational neuroscience and/or computer modeling in cognitive science. Something that shows the basics of the approach– …
By Kelly Trogdon Hello all, This is my first post here – thanks Gualtiero for inviting me. As I read Chalmers’ “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” (2002), he claims that a state of positive conceivability is positive in virtue of involving a “positive intuition” of a situation, and to have …
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 …
