Edelman’s Second Nature
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.
query about philosophy of mind courses
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 …
HBO’s The Addiction Project
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…
Weekend Entertainment
Marc Hauser’s lab has a webpage where they conduct a moral sense test. More tests are listed in the end page.
“Understanding the Embodiment of Perception”
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 …
The Ontology of Creature Consciousness
In a previous post, I asked whether creature consciousness might be ontologically more important, including as part of the ontological basis for phenomenal consciousness, than many philosophers seem to think. I was motivated in part by “Consciousness without a Cerebrain Cortex: A Challenge for Neuroscience and Medicine,” a forthcoming BBS target article …
The Churchlands in the New Yorker
The last issue of the New Yorker has a long profile of Paul and Patricia Churchland. This is a must-read for anyone who is not well acquainted with the history of the Churchlands. Unfortunately, the article gets some important aspects of the background history wrong. For instance, it suggests that …