The Brains Blog is thrilled to feature Gualtiero Piccinini this week, focusing on their new book, Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition (Oxford). Gualtiero is, of course, the original founder of the Brains Blog! So we welcome Gualtiero back for a triumphant homecoming. You can find each post in one place here (as they become available).
Of course, the same shifting phenomenon occurs with morally awful views, as we can see in the rise of Nazi ideology in Germany in the 1930s from a minority outlook to occupation of the centrist position. It is noteworthy that…
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 comprised of two parts. In the target…
Srila Kaviraja Goswami writes (Chaitanya Charitamrta-Adilila 11.37.) that Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura was one of the principle devotees of Nityananda Prabhu. He knew nothing other than the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Srila Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Thākura writes in his…
If recognition is cognitively penetrable, then recognition supported by perceptual expertise—as opposed to just any visual recognition—is not an extra symptom of malleability or penetrability of perception. A difference between novices and experts is that experts (when working as experts)…
Sandel’s politics are squarely on the left. In 2012, he added intellectual lustre to Ed Miliband’s renewal project for Labour, speaking to that year’s party conference on the moral limits of markets. The speech, and his book of the same…
Accordingly, it is important to place the reported thrombotic events into context, and to think about how many thrombotic events we might normally expect in a population of a comparable size to the population that has received the Astra Zeneca…
