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).
So ,when are private companies morally permitted to refuse to provide services? Its widely thought that private companies provide services at their own discretion with the important exception that they cannot refuse service on discriminatory grounds, e.g. because of race,…
I propose to do at least three things with this distinction. First, attitude ascriptions will tend to resist substitution of coreferential expressions only when we have in mind representational acts. Second, reference should be thought of as an act, an…
19 March 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) There Are No Object Files Abstract. Object files are representations that sustain reference to external objects and keep track of the properties of these objects. Object files are posited…
How do we know we’re not living in a simulation like The Matrix? Jack Freedom, BristolThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsPost your…
I periodically remind people of a couple of venues for work in the philosophy of neuroscience:The Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. The deadline is purely nominal; submissions are processed as they come in and published online shortly…
First interview in the new Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the risk of future pandemics arising, and…
