2024-04-01 18:36
Hi All, The Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup is happy to announce the CFP for this year’s upcoming meeting at Pensacola beach in October! See the full CFP below. More in… Read More
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2024-03-15 12:30
(See all posts in this series here.) I conclude with Chapters 6 and 7 of the book, which apply the theory to reasoning and introspecting consciousness. Investigating these as forms of attend… Read More
2024-03-14 12:30
(See all posts in this series here.) Philosophers have been debating implicit biases for some time. In Chapter 5 of MoM, I argue that automatic attention provides a scrutable type of implici… Read More
2024-03-13 12:30
(See all posts in this series here.) Intention is a type of memory. I argue that research on working memory reveals the dynamics of intention as embodying the agent’s control in action… Read More
2024-03-12 12:30
(See all posts in this series here.) In Chapter 2 of MoM and an earlier book (second edition forthcoming), I have defended the selection for action view of attention. A subject attending to… Read More
2024-03-11 12:30
(See all posts in this series here.) Movements of the Mind (MoM) is about the structure of agency. It also gives a theory of attention. Indeed, it also provides a theory of psychological bia… Read More
2024-03-11 12:00
Hi All, Please join us this week for a series of posts by Wayne Wu, discussing his exciting new book, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Intention, Attention, and Action. We will have a post… Read More
2024-02-26 12:40
Philipp Berghofer Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria I’m very grateful to Mahdi Khalili, Andrea Reichenberger, and Harald Wiltsche for engaging so carefully with my… Read More
2024-02-26 12:00
Harald A. Wiltsche, Department of Philosophy & Applied Ethics Linköping University, Sweden It is a common perception that phenomenology and the broader “continental” str… Read More
2024-02-26 11:50
Andrea Reichenberger Technical University of Munich Philipp Berghofer champions a phenomenological experience-first epistemology und he argues for the justificatory force of experiences. The… Read More
2024-02-26 11:40
Mahdi Khalili Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran It is always my pleasure to study Philipp Berghofer’s work. Even when I disagree with him, I appreciate his ability… Read More
2024-02-26 11:30
Philipp Berghofer Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria Experiences are our points of contact with the world. They constitute the ineluctable starting point and epistemologic… Read More
2024-02-26 11:13
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium on Experience, Phenomenology, and Quantum Mechanics. Despite a long history of discussion in physics and the philosophy of physics, the relations… Read More
2024-02-13 14:00
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… Read More
2024-02-05 16:50
Cornell University will host an NEH Summer Institute in Moral Psychology, June 24-July 19, 2024, with lead instructors Laura Niemi, Shaun Nichols, and John Doris, and a slate of distinguishe… Read More
2024-01-30 12:00
Check out our partner’s line-up of speakers. Nick Shea presented last week, and there are a dozen total sessions below. You can preview the list of names below and find more informatio… Read More
2024-01-26 14:00
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 respons… Read More
2024-01-25 14:00
Inês Hipólito Macquarie University, Philosophy Department In cognitive science, the notion of mental representation, stands as a central beacon, not due to unanimous agreement… Read More
2024-01-24 14:00
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, i… Read More
2024-01-23 14:00
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 applicati… Read More
2024-01-22 14:05
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… Read More
2024-01-22 14:00
Hi All! 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&lsq&hell…Read More
2023-12-15 13:00
We’re excited to release the final of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These… Read More
2023-12-01 13:00
We’re excited to release the sixth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These… Read More
2023-11-22 19:57
2023-11-17 13:00
We’re excited to release the fifth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These… Read More
2023-11-03 12:00
We’re excited to release the fourth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. Thes… Read More
2023-10-29 22:25
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the disc… Read More
2023-10-27 12:00
We’re excited to release the third of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These… Read More
2023-10-20 12:00
By: Will Bridewell, Naval Research Laboratory Alistair M.C. Isaac, University of Edinburgh (View all posts in this series here.) 5: Response to Comments We would like to thank Mona-Marie, Ma… Read More
2023-10-19 12:00
By Mona-Marie Wandrey and Marta Halina, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (See all the posts in this series here.) We regard the proposal advanced by W… Read More
2023-10-18 12:00
By Matthias Michel, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, New York University (View all the posts in this series here.) Bridewell & Isaac’s idea is ‘refutation by impleme… Read More
2023-10-17 12:00
By: Will Bridewell, Naval Research Laboratory Alistair M.C. Isaac, University of Edinburgh (View all posts in this series here.) In part 1, we motivated an apophatic methodology for the scie… Read More
2023-10-16 12:00
We are excited to have a great set of posts this week focusing on computational modeling and consciousness! We will begin with two posts by Will Bridewell and Alistair Isaac, outlining their… Read More
2023-10-16 12:00
By: Will Bridewell, Naval Research Laboratory Alistair M.C. Isaac, University of Edinburgh (View all posts in this series here.) What can computational models tell us about consciousness? Tr… Read More
2023-10-13 12:00
By Tillman Vierkant, University of Edinburgh (See all the posts in this series here.) I am very grateful to Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius and Ting Huang for their very insightful comme… Read More
2023-10-12 12:00
By Ting Huang (See all posts in this series here.) In a prior symposium on the book I posed the following clarifying questions to Vierkant regarding his stance on free will: Does “mana… Read More
2023-10-11 12:00
By Paulius Rimkevicius, Chapman University (See all posts in this series here.) Like a tinker, who travels freely from place to place mending metal utensils and sometimes ends up creating qu… Read More
2023-10-10 12:00
By Gloria Andrada, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (See all the posts in this series here.) One of my favorite things about Vierkant’s book is that it provides an original argument for ex… Read More
2023-10-09 12:00
By Tillmann Vierkant, University of Edinburgh (See all posts in this symposium here.) Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about the Tinkering Mind! I have been bothered b… Read More
2023-10-09 11:59
Hi Everyone! Join us this week for a symposium on Till Vierkant’s exciting new book, The Tinkering Mind! Till will kick us off today with a precis, followed by commentaries from Gloria… Read More
2023-09-29 12:00
We’re excited to release the second of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. Thes… Read More
2023-09-22 12:00
We’re excited to release the first of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” —a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These… Read More
2023-09-14 10:00
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part IV: Correlation and Explanation I’m really grateful to Hedda Hassel Mørch for writing such a thoughtful respons… Read More
2023-09-13 10:00
By Hedda Hassel Mørch (See the other posts in this series here!) As Jonathan Birch points out, the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT) is an outlier in the field of c… Read More
2023-09-12 15:21
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part II: The integrated information theory as outlier Part I traced the gradual entry of consciousness into the Overton win… Read More
2023-09-11 10:00
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part I: Cognitive neuroscience as usual? In politics, the ‘Overton window‘ is the range of positions that can s… Read More
2023-09-11 03:20
This week, Brains is pleased to welcome Jonathan Birch and Hedda Hassel Mørch, discussing the philosophy and science of consciousness. These posts were inspired by the recent Associat… Read More
2023-07-11 13:00
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… Read More
2023-05-24 15:44
The 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind received many excellent submissions but decided to extend the deadline to allow even… Read More
2023-05-18 15:30
A central thesis of Cognitive Ontology is that cognitive kinds are unlikely to reduce to neural kinds. I found one of the most exciting threads in the book to be an argument supporting this… Read More
2023-05-18 15:00
As I mentioned in the first blogpost, one aspect of some cognitive kinds that I try to emphasize throughout the book is their externalism, or as I have put it, their “etiological-envir… Read More
2023-05-17 15:30
What makes episodic memory stand out from the motley array of memory types, running the gamut from working memory through to procedural memory (with many more waiting in the wings!)? Followi… Read More
2023-05-17 15:00
In this third of four blogposts, I’m going to introduce another theoretical construct from cognitive science, episodic memory, that I discuss in my book, and I will try to summarize my… Read More
2023-05-16 15:30
Concepts are the constituents of thoughts. As understood by cognitive scientists, they are items in semantic memory that are deployed in higher cognitive processes including inference, categ… Read More
2023-05-16 15:00
As I mentioned in the previous blogpost, the core of the book consists in a close look at a number of case studies of putative cognitive kinds, with a chapter devoted to each of seven theore… Read More
2023-05-15 15:00
Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s book Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences offers a compelling non-reductionist approach to understanding the furniture of the mind:… Read More
2023-05-15 14:30
This week the Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s new book Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences (Cambridge University Press). Ove… Read More
2023-05-09 16:35
We are pleased to announce the next Brains Blog Roundtable, which discusses the Free Energy Principle and the debate between realism and illusionism about consciousness. Please join Majid D… Read More
2023-04-19 15:53
We’re excited to share the CFA for the next iteration of the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup’s annual Phil Neuro extravaganza at the beach! See the details below! Read More
2023-04-16 12:30
Authors love when their books are being read. They love it even more when their books are being discussed. I’ve happily been in this position where the commentators have taken their ti… Read More
2023-04-15 12:30
Piotr Kozak’s insightful Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023) offers an original contribution to the philosophy and psychology of imagistic thinking. He carefully examines some challen… Read More
2023-04-13 12:15
In his book Thinking with images, Kozak starts from the assumption that any theory of thinking must face three challenges: the epistemological, the semantical, and the metaphysical. So, the… Read More
2023-04-12 12:29
In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold… Read More
2023-04-11 12:00
Let me start with a couple of examples. Look at the night sky and try to find the Big Dipper. At first, you see an unordered magnitude of astronomical objects. A star chart can guide you in… Read More
2023-04-01 01:40
In this series, I summarized major arguments in A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology. My exploration of the uses of psychology has emphasized the explanatory roles it fulfills within… Read More
2023-03-30 16:53
The ethical quandary at the core of how we represent the mind in practical uses of psychology is the technology of agency. The biomedical and psychodynamic (i.e., discursive) approaches are… Read More
2023-03-29 11:00
In its pragmatic project, empirical psychology employs metaphors to interpret data and deliver descriptive explanations.[i] Insofar as it is a positivist project, empirical psychology pursue… Read More
2023-03-28 03:23
In this post, I explore how analogical modes of explanation have been used in empirical psychology to loop together data derived through experiments and descriptive explanation. Metaphor has… Read More
2023-03-27 03:34
In A Suspicious Science, I analyze the epistemic context of the uses of psychology in contemporary society so as to develop an interdisciplinary, multi-level human science. I distinguish thr… Read More
2023-03-14 15:58
What is the mind, and how does it work? Centuries of philosophical and scientific investigation have shown that these questions are too big to be tackled once and for all with a single expla… Read More
2023-02-24 19:18
Brain regions might carry out well-defined functions— edge detection in primary visual cortex, “error monitoring” in the anterior cingulate cortex, and so on. But regions d… Read More
2023-02-23 14:34
Emergence might be incontrovertible to physicists or mathematicians, but not in neuroscience. Why is it so controversial?
One reason seems clear. It’s fair to say that neuroscience… Read More
2023-02-22 13:21
Neuroscience tends to study parts of the brain separately. The Entangled Brain promotes the idea that, instead, we need to understand the brain as a complex, entangled system. Accordingly, t… Read More
2023-02-20 07:59
Ruey-Lin Chen
Professor, Department of Philosophy
National Chung Cheng University
Photo credit: 胡儀婷
Professor Lin, Cheng-Hung (1938-2022), according to a you… Read More
2023-02-14 14:00
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… Read More
2023-02-13 22:30
Guest editors: Mirko Farina (Innopolis) & Witold Pedrycz (Alberta)
Machine learning (ML) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that focuses on using data and algorithms to mimic the… Read More
2023-02-10 14:30
We are very grateful to Jesper Aagaard, Gloria Andrada, Lucy Osler and Jennifer Windt for providing such insightful questions, suggestions, and considerations on our paper.
The comm… Read More
2023-02-10 14:00
Jelle Bruineberg and Regina Fabry invite us to welcome a new member into the mind wandering family: extended mind wandering (EMW), of which their central example is habitual, diversionary sm… Read More
2023-02-09 14:00
In their paper “Extended Mind-Wandering”, Jelle Bruineberg and Regina E. Fabry suggest that habitual smartphone use can be conceptualised as a form of extended mind-wandering tha… Read More
2023-02-08 14:00
I am very much convinced by Bruineberg and Fabry’s idea that we can engage in episodes of extended mind-wandering, i.e. episodes of mind-wandering that are partly constituted by our in… Read More
2023-02-07 14:00
Jelle Bruineberg and Regina E. Fabry (BF) start their paper on extended mind-wandering by denouncing two insidious biases in extended mind research: The harmony bias and the c… Read More
2023-02-06 16:30
Have you ever scrolled through a social media feed on your smartphone without a particular purpose or goal? Were you trying to focus on something else, like listening to a talk, or did you h… Read More
2023-02-01 18:27
The following opportunity may be of interest to some Brains Blog readers!
https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2023/ Read More
2023-01-24 13:00
delighted to announce the next in our series of Brains Blog Roundtables. The topic of this discussion is Buddhism in Philosophy of Mind!
Please join Dan Burnston and our very exciting p… Read More
2023-01-13 00:28
Hi All,
Our friends at Neural Mechanisms have announced their talk lineup for 2023, and as usual it will be a great set of speakers. See the schedule below, and check out neuralmechanism… Read More
2023-01-02 12:31
The contemporary (Fodor-style) Language of Thought (LOT) hypothesis (not to be confused with Sellars’s reasonable hypothesis that some neural processes are somewhat analogous to lingui… Read More
2023-01-01 01:25
The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) presents:
Practical Session: How can philosophers engage in interdisciplinary research?
The session wil… Read More
2022-12-12 16:55
We are delighted to inform the philosophy community of a newly founded international society: International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM)The International So… Read More
2022-12-09 13:00
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country
The argument for why empathy makes us less, not more, impartial, biased, or objective is simple once the ground… Read More
2022-12-08 13:01
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country
Given the differences I discussed in my last post between how we regard others and ourselves pre-reflectively (… Read More
2022-12-07 13:01
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country
In my last post, I talked in general ways about how the creatures that we are determines our pre-reflective way… Read More
2022-12-06 13:01
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country
Terminology: A first-person perspective contains three sub-perspectives: an agent perspective (how we view ours… Read More
2022-12-05 12:59
This week the Brains Blog will host a series of posts by Heidi Maibom about her exciting new book, The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works! Please join us for the posts and engage in d… Read More
2022-12-02 10:50
Jimmy Dean sings about JFK as commander of the PT-109 in WW2. At around 2:20 he says: ‘Now, who could guess, or who could possibly know, that this same man, named Kennedy, would be t… Read More
2022-12-01 10:20
Paderewski pictured in 1935 (Public Domain)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was famous both as pianist and the Prime Minister of Poland. Thus, it is easy to imagine that someone is familiar with hi… Read More
2022-11-30 10:19
Apple Fruit Fall – Free photo on Pixabay.
Is it really possible to believe something while lacking the capacity to represent that belief? Intuitively, one could only believe that co… Read More
2022-11-29 10:41
What does reference consist in? In virtue of what does a speaker refer to one object rather than another by uttering something on a given occasion? Well, I think the answer to this question… Read More
2022-11-28 10:47
This is the first post in a series of five about my recent book, Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference (OUP, 2022). I will start things off by trying to convey the most ba… Read More
2022-11-25 15:26
When I went to graduate school in the 1990s, the mainstream assumptions were that (1) computation properly so called is digital and its limits are defined by classical computability theory… Read More
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