We are very happy to announce a new group, the ‘Society for the Metaphysics of Science’, (unsurprisingly) devoted to the ‘metaphysics of science’. We would like to invite anyone interested to join the group and also to attend our upcoming sessions at the Pacific and Central APA Conferences. The website …
I have the good fortune (I think) to have become a part of the program committee for the 2008 meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Some contributors to Brains were a part of the 2006 program. Moreover, some of the 2006 sessions were likely of interest to readers of …
Following their discussion of the Inga-Otto thought experiment, Andy Clark and David Chalmers propose the following necessary and sufficient conditions for what information is to be a part of one’s cognitive apparatus: First, the notebook is a constant in Otto’s life – in cases where the information in the notebook …
A student who prefers to remain anonymous has sent me the following interesting query:I have recently been offered a place in a top Canadian PhD program (one that is ranked quite highly in about 7 specialty areas). Since I have a master’s, I have been accepted directly into the PhD …
In a previous post, I wrote about HBO’s 14-part documentary series on addiction, which is set to premiere on March 15. What if you don’t have cable? HBO has set up a website where, immediately after the premiere, all 14 films will be made available for free. Apparently this is …
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Many theories of attention postulate a mechanism involving the thalamus. Roughly, the idea is that the thalamus can enhance certain sensory signals going to the cortex at the expense of others, and this is what constitutes (sensory) attention. (The mechanism may depend in part on recurrent signals from cortex to …
