Is neuroscience ready to replace philosophy?
Of course not! Still, here are Maggie Boden, Barry Smith, and Steven Rose discussing the question at a forum hosted by the Institute for Art and Ideas: Watch more videos on iai.tv
View ArticleInterview with Mary Midgley on consciousness and the limits of physical science
… at iai News. An excerpt: The physical sciences have been so extraordinarily successful in their own sphere of late that people tend now to expect them to be applicable everywhere. Enlightenment...
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Symposium on Wayne Wu, “Against Division: Consciousness, Information, and the...
I am pleased to announce that our next Mind & Language symposium is on Wayne Wu’s “Against Division: Consciousness, Information and the Visual Streams,” from the journal’s September 2014 issue,...
View Article$1.8m grant for a new neuroscience initiative at Duke University
The Duke Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that professors Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong have received a $1.8 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation to...
View ArticleShort talks on neuroscience by Nancy Kanwisher
This is a very cool initiative. From the “About” page: In this site, I hope to share with a broad audience some of the the progress we’ve made and the challenges we still face in the effort to...
View ArticleThe Science and Philosophy of Consciousness
Another IAI forum, with Steve Fuller, Iain McGilchrist, and Roger Penrose: Watch more videos on iai.tv
View ArticleParis Workshop on sensorimotor approach to Consciousness in July 2015
On July 4th and 5th 2015, just before the ASSC conference on Consciousness in Paris, we are organizing a workshop to discuss advances in the sensorimotor approach. All are welcome! See here for the...
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New OA journal: Neuroscience of Consciousness
It’s published by Oxford, sponsored by the ASSC, edited by Anil Seth, Biyu Jade He, and Jakob Hohwy, and open for submissions in January 2015. Oh, and it’s open access. From the publisher’s...
View ArticleA few links
IAI.tv has published a debate between Jennifer Hornsby, Patrick Haggard, and George Ellis on the neuroscience of free will. The most recent issue of Abstracta, an open-access journal of philosophy...
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Symposium on Martin & Le Corre, “Sensory Substitution Is Substitution”
I am glad to kick off our latest Mind & Language symposium on Jean-Rémy Martin and François Le Corre‘s “Sensory Substitution Is Substitution ,” from the journal’s April 2015 issue, with...
View ArticleMinimal selves, dreaming minds, and sleeping bodies
As we move from wakefulness into sleep onset and through the different stages of sleep, there are concerted changes in brain activity, the way we process external stimuli from the environment, and in...
View ArticleIntroduction
Thanks to John Schwenkler and The Brains Blog for giving me this opportunity to tell you about my work. In this first post I’d like to describe the themes and ideas of my most recent book, Waking,...
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Is Consciousness a “Stream”?
In 1890 William James introduced the metaphor of the “stream of consciousness” into Western psychology: “Consciousness… is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it...
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Lucid Dreaming or Dreaming That You’re Dreaming?
Why isn’t a lucid dream just a dream within a dream? Suppose I’m having a flying dream and I think, “I must be dreaming.” I’m in a dream state, so why I am not just dreaming that I’m dreaming? To put...
View ArticleIs Computation Abstract or Concrete?
John Schwenkler kindly asked me to blog about my new book, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account. I am grateful for the invitation. The original motivation for the research that led to the book...
View ArticleCFP: Robustness in Neurological Systems
Call for Posters Robustness in Neurological Systems 13 – 15 November, 2015 Center for Philosophy of Science 817 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA This workshop is...
View Article#MindsOnline2015, Session 2: Perception and Consciousness
The second session of the 2015 Minds Online conference has begun! It is on the theme of Perception and Consciousness, and includes the following papers: Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz): Bayesian...
View Article#MindsOnline2015 Session 4: Philosophy of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
The fourth and final session of the Minds Online conference has begun! It is focused on the Philosophy of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and includes the following papers: Karen Neander (Duke)...
View ArticleApplications for the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy are now...
Applications are now being accepted for the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP), to be held at Duke University from May 22 to June 5, 2016. The SSNAP consist of two weeks of...
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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Thanks to John Schwenkler for the invitation to guest-blog this week about my new book Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (Oxford University Press NY, 2016). *** From...
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