I always thought existentialism was the exclusive province of some continental philosophers. Well, I was wrong. There appears to be a growing literature of psychologists investigating empirically the existential concerns of people as well as the psychological strategies they adopt to cope with existential concerns, the effects those concerns have …
The Church-Turing fallacy is the fallacy of supposing that the Church-Turing thesis (CT) or some other idea of Church and Turing entails that the mind can be explained computationally (i.e., computationalism). (The term ‘Church-Turing fallacy’ is due to Jack Copeland.)IMHO, CT is one of the technical ideas most heavily abused by philosophers of mind.CT …
Seed magazine’s ScienceBlogs collects blog posts under categories of which two should be of special interest to Philosophy of Brains readers: ScienceBlogs: Brain and BehaviorScienceBlogs: Philosophy of Science
The yearly issue of Synthese devoted to philosophy of neuroscience is out (requires subscription to see the articles).
Some time ago, I wrote two posts on the philosophy job market, which generated a certain amount of discussion. Today, an anonymous reader posted a particularly informative new comment. The comment was posted in the old version of the blog, where few people are likely to find it. So I …
It’s the title of an article forthcoming in Nature Neuroscience. As yesterday’s NYT article says, this is big news. The authors appear to have recorded the non-REM-sleep-induced dialogue between cortex and hippocampus by which long term memories are consolidated.
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