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).
AFB goes as follows:Smithies might complain that I am exaggerating the gap between actual blindsighters and stipulated blindsighters. Perhaps we do not have to worry about the gap because the stipulated cases are at least in some close possible worlds…
Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. M. (1997). The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of neuroscience, 17(11), 4302-4311. – Jordan Zlatev (University of Lund) Glazer, T. (2019). The Social Amplification…
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford, and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Under the current system, if a schoolchild becomes infected with the coronavirus, pupils who have been in close contact with them have to self-isolate…
But usually transplantation programmes do not pay any attention to the factor that Schumaker’s sister mentioned. They do not exclude convicted felons, even those who are still imprisoned. Guidance from the US organ transplantation network UNOS says that “status as…
We can be specific. Every year, babies are born with innate differences in their sex characteristics that have been medicalised, prompting doctors to (try to) reshape their bodies to fit with dominant gender norms. For decades now, the “standard of…
Later Stokes writes, “Perceptual expertise is an epistemic virtue” (p. 182). This claim strikes me as a mistake. Perceptual expertise is narrowly domain-specific; virtues are not–whether they’re characterized as traits or faculties (Turri 2017). On a trait-based approach there’s no…
