Neural Rewards for Altruistic Behavior (Voluntary or Not)
Results published in the last issue of Science, as reported in today’s NYT.
New Ideas on Neuronal Action
Wired reports that in a paper just published in Biophysics Journal, two physicists suggest that neurons communicate by sending pressure waves (rather than electrical signals, as everyone else believes) through their axons. (Link courtesy of Blake Myers.)
Splitting Concepts
Gualtiero Piccinini and Sam Scott’s paper “Splitting Concepts” together with my reply “How to Split Concepts: A Reply to Piccinini and Scott” is now published in Philosophy of Science (73, 4). This is a very nice exchange and I hope it will get other people interested in this issue. Edouard …
“The Cognitive Brain”
… is a book by Arnold Trehub that is now available online, along with a few other papers by him.
Intervening in the Psyche
Some European researchers have published a book, entitled “Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society,” which covers both the possibilities of intervention offered by cutting-edge neuroscience and the philosophical and political issues that such interventions raise.
KNEW’07
This year’s edition of Kazimierz Naturalized Epistemology Workshop (1st-5th September 2007) will focus on relations between naturalized epistemology and artificial cognitive systems. The prospective keynote speakers are Don Favareau (National University of Singapore) Maria Frapolli (University of Granada) Stevan Harnad (University of Quebec at Montreal and University of Southampton) Hilary …
The notion of coherence
Hi, Quite recently I started to think the notion of coherence in the context of cognitive sciences. (The sun was shining and so on…) As well know, there are several ways to interpret philosophically the notion of (conceptual) coherence. For instance, one way is to say that the notion of coherence can be simply defined …