As I mentioned earlier, an issue of Synthese devoted to computational explanation in neuroscience and related topics is about to come out. The articles are now available on the Synthese website. (You can see the abstracts; to see the articles, you or your institution needs to subscribe to the journal.)G. Piccinini, …
Corey Maley found this nice Halloween tribute to a great man.
The 2006 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is about to take place, on November 2-5 at the Hyatt Regenecy Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. There are several interesting talks and sessions on the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, including a symposium entitled “Can Introspective Reports be Scientific Evidence?” with Anna …
An interesting conference on realization, organized by Julie Yoo, recently took place at Lafayette College. See here for more details.
Impressions from the 2006 Society for Neuroscience Meeting The 2006 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) took place here in Atlanta last Saturday to Wednesday. As a “neurophilosopher” I felt I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to attend, so I paid my $145 for membership in SfN so I …
David Chalmers helpfully pointed out that the first relevant use of “first-person data” appears to be due to Herbert Feigl (in “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’”, 1958). This brings up what seems to me a confusion in the current literature between first-person data as a kind of scientific data and …
The expression “first-person data” has become quite common in the consciousness studied literature, where it is used to refer to data about conscious experience, sometimes with the implication that these data are obtained only through introspection, and sometimes with the further implication that these are private data (as opposed to …
