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DSPNW at the Central APA this Week
See the below announcement for an exciting author-meets-critics section at the Central APA this week, organized by the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup!
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Susanna Schellenberg will livestream “Subjective Perspectives and Perceptual...
The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar “Subjective Perspectives and Perceptual Variance” will be delivered by Susanna Schellenberg on May 6th. See below for details about the free talk and how to...
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(Caveat: for the sake of exposition, at times I articulate past views in slightly anachronistic terms; I do my best to capture the gist of what Alan Turing and others meant in terms that contemporary...
View ArticleThis Week on Brains: Representations in the mind and brain sciences: Time for...
This week on Brains, we are happy to host a discussion of the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences, centered around Louie Favela and Edouard Machery‘s recent paper,...
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Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd for the opportunity to present and discuss our paper, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological...
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Ben Baker I admit I was somewhat put off by the first two sentences of Favela and Machery’s paper. It feels odd to use “mainstream___ism” to label merely the wide application of a concept – or even...
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Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Ben Baker for taking the time to offer his assessment of our project as well as some suggestions. Baker kindly notes the novelty of the project, its...
View ArticleRepresentation Crisis: Commentary on “Investigating the concept of...
Inês Hipólito Macquarie University, Philosophy Department In cognitive science, the notion of mental representation, stands as a central beacon, not due to unanimous agreement, but rather because it...
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Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Inês Hipólito for taking the time to offer her thoughts about the concept of representation in the brain and mind sciences in response to our work. Hipólito...
View ArticleCognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Neuroaesthetics
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of diverse methods to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is...
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