Adaptation and Representations
The website Interdisciplines is running a web-based workshop on Adaptation and Representations. Readers oif Brains might want to check the discussion.
Do Emotions Split into Different Natural Kinds?
In his 1997 book, What Emotions Really Are, Paul Griffiths argues that emotions split into three different natural kinds. But in his PSA talk a few weeks ago, Andrea Scarantino (a student of Griffiths) said that Griffiths now thinks that emotions do not split in the way he envisioned in his …
Female Cognition Finally Modeled
I agree with Anna-Mari Rusanen when she says that <<you should see this. It is a mechanistic, causal and probably algorithmic model of female cognition. The text in Finnish says “Finally female cognition has been modelled”.>>
word/taste synaesthesia
The NY Times Nov 23 front page has an article about word/taste synaesthesia: there are 10 people known who experience tastes when they hear (or read) words.
The Necker cube
Hi everyone, You probably know these lines from Vision: “… To be sure, part of the explanation of [the Necker cube’s] perceptual reversal must have to do with a bistable neural network (that is, one with two distinct stable states) somewhere inside the brain… ” (Marr, 1982 p.25-26) How do the current …
Science against Religion?
Today’s NY Times has an interesting report on a recent conference discussing whether scientists should challenge religion more aggressively.
Pittsburgh, HPS: A new area of concentration in the History & Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
It’s time to apply for grad school in philosophy. So, this may be of interest to some readers of this blog. The department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh has a new area of concentation in the History & Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry. …