Intrinsic Functional Organization of the Nervous System
Jeff Dauer sent me this interesting article. In my humble opinion, more philosophers of mind should pay attention to more of this kind of science.
A Group Blog in the Philosophy of Mind?
In other areas of philosophy, there are successful group blogs, where people exchange and discuss ideas. But to the best of my knowledge, there is no group blog in the philosophy of mind. Some readers of this blog have suggested that I transform it into a group blog. I like …
New webpage for “Brains”
This is the new webpage for this blog, Brains. The blog has existed since December 2005 at https://brainbrain.blogspot.com/. All the old content has been transfered to this website, and all new content will be published here.Many thanks to John Gabriel for his help in transfering the blog.
News
Philosophers’ Carnival #33 here.Augenblick reports on various interesting things, including the following:The “brain box,” a new computer that attempts to mimick the fault-tolerant characteristics of the brain, is being built by scientists at the University of Manchester.The first neurons to develop in the brain have been identified by researchers at …
New Philosophical Challenge
Check it out at Zeno’s Coffehouse.
Some Philosophical Fun
Courtesy of Ben Ricker:“The BBC web site posted several thought experiments that are/were in vogue in ethics and requested votes on what you would do. Some food for thought. Check it out here. After you vote, you see the total tallys.”
Did Fodor know about Sellars?
It is sometimes noticed that Wilfrid Sellars’s work in the 1950s is the origin of functional role semantics, contains the language of thought hypothesis, and has a lot in common with functionalism generally. So, it is natural to speculate the Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor, when they formulated functionalism in …