Neuroscience and Its Philosophy 2006
The yearly issue of Synthese devoted to philosophy of neuroscience is out (requires subscription to see the articles).
New Comment on the Philosophy Job Market
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 …
“Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep”
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.
Philosophy Carnival #40
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Special Eurobarometer 224 “Europeans, Science and Technology”
I find this fascinating: In the survey, a quiz was presented to respondents in order to test the knowledge onscience and technology. The test subjects were citizens of EU. https://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_224_report_en.pdfsee especially pages 41-44Results of this quiz show that for most statements a majority of citizens in theEuropean Union answered correctly, …
Consciousness and X-Phi WIPS
A couple of related papers on consciousness and experiemental philosophy are being hosted at Brain Hammer as part of the Philosophy of Mind and Science Works in Progress Sessions (PMS WIPS): Posted Dec 15 is “Intuitions about Consciousness: Experimental Studies” by Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina …
Feedback on Graduate Students’ Work
When I was in graduate school, I remember how hard it was to get good feedback on my dissertation work. My advisor was great, but it was difficult to get feedback from others. I tried to send my work to other experts outside my department, and some of them were …