Evolving Enactivism: Neurodynamics sans content
In a direct challenge to radical, anti-representational proposals about how to conceive of cognition, Aizawa (2015) asks “If the brain does not contribute information processing or symbol manipulation...
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Neural Mechanisms Online 2018: An Interim Report — and call for discussants
[The following is a guest post by the organizers of Neural Mechanisms Online. — JS] Neural Mechanisms Online 2018 is a cycle of webinars (i.e. web seminars) on the philosophy of neuroscience. The...
View ArticleThe Foundations of Perception
Yesterday, I gave a general overview of my forthcoming book. Today, I’ll lay out the foundations on which the rest of the book builds: the general and particular elements of perception. Chapter 1...
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Systems Neuroscience Highlights: March 2018
I’ll be posting summaries each month of high-quality, general-interest papers from the systems neuroscience literature (usually there are one to five such papers a month). I plan to post them in the...
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Systems Neuroscience Highlights: April 2018
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...
View ArticleEmpirically-Informed Approaches to Weakness of Will: A Brains Blog Roundtable
Weakness of will is a traditional puzzle in the philosophy of action. The puzzle goes something like this: FOLK PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY: If, at time t, an agent judges that it is better to do A than B,...
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Karen Yan on Causal Investigative Strategies in Neurophysiology
The Brains blog is excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. It is free. Find information about how and when to join the webinar here:...
View Article3. Introducing Cognitive Structures
In the previous post, I have remarked that the existing forms of SR do not use the full capacity of their logical frameworks to account for a substantial relation between the structure of the...
View ArticleVincente Raja & Michael Anderson’s “Behavior Considered as an Enabling...
The Brains blog is excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. It is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms...
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2. Do Experts Really Perceive the World Differently from Non-Experts?
People sometimes say things like the following: Cabernet Sauvignon tastes different to an expert wine taster than to a novice; or, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony sounds different to a seasoned conductor...
View ArticleCFP: Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is inviting contributions to a celebratory volume on the neural correlates of consciousness. In 2000, MIT published „Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and...
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Systems Neuroscience Highlights: April 2018
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...
View ArticleEmpirically-Informed Approaches to Weakness of Will: A Brains Blog Roundtable
Weakness of will is a traditional puzzle in the philosophy of action. The puzzle goes something like this: FOLK PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY: If, at time t, an agent judges that it is better to do A than B,...
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Karen Yan on Causal Investigative Strategies in Neurophysiology
The Brains blog is excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. It is free. Find information about how and when to join the webinar here:...
View Article3. Introducing Cognitive Structures
In the previous post, I have remarked that the existing forms of SR do not use the full capacity of their logical frameworks to account for a substantial relation between the structure of the...
View ArticleVincente Raja & Michael Anderson’s “Behavior Considered as an Enabling...
The Brains blog is excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. It is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms...
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2. Do Experts Really Perceive the World Differently from Non-Experts?
People sometimes say things like the following: Cabernet Sauvignon tastes different to an expert wine taster than to a novice; or, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony sounds different to a seasoned conductor...
View ArticleCFP: Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is inviting contributions to a celebratory volume on the neural correlates of consciousness. In 2000, MIT published „Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and...
View ArticleZina Ward will live stream a new approach to “…Data Aggregation Across...
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms...
View ArticleAdina Roskies will live-stream “Representational Similarity Analysis in...
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms...
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