Mueller on Digital States
Vincent Mueller has posted a note on digital states at Interdisciplines. Below is my brief commentary…
European Journal Rankings (ERIH)
The European Science Foundation has been working on ranking academic journals in various disciplines. Here are their brand new rankings of journals in philosophy and in history and philosophy of science.I recently spoke with a member of the committee that ranked philosophy journals. He explained the ESF criteria as follows:Journals that …
Explaining the Brain
Carl Craver, Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, OUP, 2007. The book has been released in Europe. Americans will have to wait a few more weeks, though they can pre-oder it at Amazon. I observed the development of this book from its very beginning, and I …
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.