Russ Poldrack will live-stream “The Physics of Representation” Friday
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 ArticleCFA: Philosophy and Neuroscience at the Gulf III
The third Neuroscience at the Gulf workshop is co-organized by John Bickle (Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center) and Antonella Tramacere (Mississippi State...
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John Bickle at MSU Weekly Online Chats
We’re happy to announce our first co-hosted talk! This week we are bringing you John Bickle from the MSU Weekly Chat series, a great lineup of talks put together by John and Antonella Tramacere. You...
View ArticleClosing Conference of Duke’s Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy...
We are excited to share information about the Closing Conference of the 2021 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) with you! This is 2-day event featuring keynote addresses from...
View ArticleLet Go of Your Expertise to Tell a Better Story
Unexpectedly, the eyeball turned out to be the problem. There I was, writing a book about the brain, a manuscript that became The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds, and I was...
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Unthinkable Pasts and Undreamable Futures: A Role of History for Scientists
I am not a historian. This thought did not occur to me when I set out three years ago to write a book about my field of computational neuroscience, but it has occurred to me many times since. I knew I...
View ArticleTowards a Multilevel, Mechanistic, Computational, Representational...
When I was in graduate school at Pitt around the late 1990s, I hung out with some faculty and students in the Psych Department. One day I asked one of the more ambitious Psych grad students, “what’s...
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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...
View ArticleAlan Turing and Neural Computation
(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,...
View ArticleFavela and Machery: Precis of “Investigating the Concept of Representation in...
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...
View ArticleCommentary on Favela and Machery, “Investigating the concept of...
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...
View ArticleReply to Ben Baker
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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