Thanks for the interesting comments on my post on the psychology of philosophy, in which I asked whether some philosophers’ resistance to naturalism might be due to extra-rational psychological factors.In addition to those who posted, Blake Myers emailed me pointing out that much of Paul Bloom’s work (the Yale psychologist) …
Some time ago, I wanted to write a post calling for a “psychology of philosophy”. In my mind, this would be the study of extra-rational factors that influence philosophers’ beliefs.A question that I find particularly interesting is, do attitudes about science, such as naturalism vs. anti-naturalism, correlate with levels of …
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Can you help me identify the ten most elegant and or decisive experiments in the history of neuroscience?I think that HH’s voltage clamp I/V measurements make it in. Perhaps the freeze fracture experiments demonstrating vesicular release.
There is a new survey up at Experimental Philosophy. They are looking for both philosophers and non-philosophers. I just took the survey and invite you to do the same.
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Below is a tentative and rough taxonomy of notions of information relevant to psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and specifically, to whether computation is information processing.1. Shannon information. The notion defined by his communication theory. The more unlikely an event is relative to its alternatives, the more Shannon information it …
