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Visual Space and the Perception / Cognition Divide

I want to thank John Schwenkler for inviting me to blog about my new book The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space (Palgrave, 2018). In this first post I outline the two major concerns of 3D vision: (1) inconstancy, and (2) inconsistency, and suggest that inconsistency can be avoided by …

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John Schwenkler June 25, 2018 July 2, 2018 books

Thanks to Paul Linton for blogging this week on The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space, published 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. To read all his posts on a single page, click here.

Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition

Gualtiero Piccinini June 9, 2018 November 25, 2022 Mindcraft / Uncategorized

I just completed a fairly polished draft of a new book, entitled Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition. It gives a comprehensive defense of a computational theory of cognition updated for the era of cognitive neuroscience, including ontological foundations, with surprises for both supporters and critics of traditional computational theories of …

Systems Neuroscience Highlights: April 2018

Eric Thomson May 25, 2018 March 6, 2023 Neuroscience

There were some really good papers last month. The three I picked to summarize all involve error-based learning on fast time-scales. One involves the cerebellum in monkeys, the other involves the songbird system in…songbirds. One reason I like these examples is because they illustrate how deeply error-sensitivity is knitted into …

T/T position in philosophy of mind at Iona College

John Schwenkler May 14, 2018 May 26, 2018 Academia

The Department of Philosophy at the Iona College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in philosophy, starting August 15, 2018. The teaching requirements associated with the position are various and include core courses in moral philosophy, but the department is particularly interested in candidates prepared to …

4. The Technical View, and Summing Up

Carrie Figdor May 10, 2018 March 10, 2020 animal cognition / Carrie Figdor: Pieces of Mind / Concepts / metaphysics of mind

In the previous post I articulated Literalism to a degree. In the book I articulate it further by responding to a series of objections, at least some of which have no doubt occurred to you. Since these are likely to be raised in comments, in this post I will present …

CFP: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience

John Schwenkler May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 CFPs

Neural Mechanisms Web Conference New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience October 5th, 10 – 18 (Greenwich Mean Time) In recent years, cognitive neuroscience has made several leaps forward: new discoveries have been made (e.g. the resting state networks or the increased scope of neural plasticity), prompting new questions; new …