William Bechtel and Jennifer Mundale make the following comment regarding lesion studies and multiple realization: Nevertheless, it is important to note that in interpreting these deficits, researchers implicitly reject multiple realization among human brains and assume that damage to a brain area in anyone will result in a deficit to …
A recent article in the Washington Post discusses an interesting study by Harrison Pope, in which he and his collaborators attempt to test the thesis that dissociative (traumatically-induced) amnesia is a comparatively recent historical phenomenon that should not be grouped with ‘biologically-based’ psychiatric disorders such as dementia and schizophrenia. Here …
Gerald Edelman has written yet another book about consciousness, whose title is Second Nature. There is a fairly entertaining review of it by neuroscientist Steven Rose in The Guardian.
Dear colleagues, I’m working on a book project in philosophy of mind. If you would, could you let me know whether/how often philosophy of mind courses are organized thematically and/or cover one issue, such as mental causation or consciousness or freewill or personal identity … ? The intended contrast is …
In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, HBO is producing a 14-part documentary set to begin March 15th, called The Addiction Project, which attempts to redefine drug and alcohol addiction by looking at the latest science. There is more…
Marc Hauser’s lab has a webpage where they conduct a moral sense test. More tests are listed in the end page.
Brains regulars may know that Fred Adams and I have been trying to put up the good fight against extended cognition. (Rob Rupert has been in there, too, of course.) We now have five works on the topic “forthcoming.” Our latest addition to this future literature is a paper of …
