By Jim Virtel 3226 people completed PhilPapers’ Philosophical Survey and 727 people completed the Philosophical Metasurvey. The preliminary results of the survey and metasurvey are already posted. More results, such as geographical effects, will be posted later. You may also contribute to the discussion forum here.
I just thought I would give everyone a heads-up on our very own Eric Schwitzgebel’s recent citation in The New Yorker in Margaret Talbot’s article on nightmare research, “Nightmare Scenario”. The article appeared in the Nov. 16, 2009 edition (available online only if you have a subscription).
This interesting article in the New York Times got me thinking. We seem to be at a computational crossroad. If we are really about to hit a wall with respect to improving processing speed and power with traditional scaling techniques (though see this interesting article on a recent breakthrough in spintronics and this …
A grad student at a top five philosophy program wrote me as follows: What do you think of someone like me (i.e. zero publications) submitting things to very new journals, like “Review of Philosophy and Psychology” or “Philosophy & Theory in Biology”? It seems probably better to go for journals …
Many of you may be interested to know that amnesiac patient HM’s brain is currently being cut into histological slices at UCSD. This momentous event in neuroscience is being streamed live from the Brain Observatory at UCSD. Today is particularly exciting because they will reach HM’s medial temporal lobes– the …
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(cross posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I have previously argued that synchronous neural activity is a candidate for a theoretical account of what a brain state is. Here is an Interesting article reviewing a new paper that suggests an interesting role for neural synchrony. I would be interested to hear what others thought about the idea …
