[embedded content] An interview with academic visitor Dr María de Jesús Medina Arellano, Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), on her research focusing on the ethics and regulation of biotechnologies in developing …
Brains Blog Roundtable: Free Energy Principle, Consciousness, Realism and Illusionism
List of some of the papers and books discussed: [embedded content] Friston, K. (2014). Active inference and agency. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(2), 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2014.905517 Dr. Wanja Wiese https://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wanja.wiese/ Dołęga, K., & Dewhurst, J. E. (2020). Fame in the predictive brain: a …
Are coincidences real? – podcast
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Book Launch: Pandemic Ethics: From Covid-19 to Disease X
[embedded content] “During the COVID 19 pandemic, politicians said, ‘We need to follow the science’. But science can’t tell us whether we should have a lockdown, or mandatory vaccination. For that we need thoughtful, careful ethical analysis,” says Wilkinson. But …
In Praise of Unthinking National Religion
I think those chest-crossing Orthodox drivers are far more ontologically sophisticated than Socrates. Image: Easter on Santorini: Georgios Michos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons: Link to image here. This isn’t an apologia for Orthodoxy in particular. Identical observations …
Cross Post: Dutch Government to Expand Euthanasia Law to Include Children Aged One to 12 – An Ethicist’s View
The Dutch proposal is different to the law in Belgium. In 2014, Belgium removed a lower age limit for accessing voluntary euthanasia. In a study commissioned by the Dutch health ministry and released in 2019, researchers investigated the deaths of …
First CFA: Philosophy & Neuroscience at the Gulf VI
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!
It is not about AI, it is about humans
[2] Taddeo, M. Modelling Trust in Artificial Agents, A First Step Toward the Analysis of e-Trust. Minds & Machines 20, 243–257 (2010) One possible answer is that we cannot. This could be true in two senses. We could simply say that we …
Reply to Commentaries on Thinking in Images
To end up with some closing remarks, I hope Thinking in Images provokes thinking and gives new topics to the discussion (not necessarily in images). That is the only thing a philosopher can wish for. And yet, although the structural …
Images, Canonical Decomposition, and Perceptual Recognition
Vernazzani, A. (2023). “How Artworks Modify Our Perception of the World” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22, pp. 417-438. (2) One challenge against any theory of imagistic thinking is that images allegedly lack a logical structure and hence “cannot be …