By Adam Leonard The ability of fMRI scans to detect which modules of the brain are active during cognitive processes provides a crude, but nonetheless revealing window into how we “think”: it allows testing whether some of our gross assumptions are true or not. For example, a widely referenced July …
It amazes me how many philosophy papers, even by young philosophers, appeal to “psychological laws”. For instance, they may discuss whether psychological laws are reducible to more fundamental laws, or whether they are intentional, or whathaveyou. This way of talking seems to presuppose that psychologists explain behavior in terms of laws.Where do they …
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By Adam Leonard Michael S. Gazzaniga is a pioneering neuroscientist in split-brain research who is currently Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books for non-scientists, from /The Social Brain/ (1985) to /The Ethical Brain/ (2006), have allowed …
The beginning of a biologically accurate, neuron-by-neuron, silicon-based brain?
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The Society for the Metaphysics of Science has organized the following sessions at the upcoming Central APA:GI-5 Thursday, April 17, 9:00 AM-12:00 PMTopic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World Title: “The Folk Concept of Race”Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)Title: “Normalcy and Sociality”Speaker: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)******** GIII-10 Thursday, …
