Third, some theorists argue that one is responsible for something when it reflects one’s quality of will, which could be either one’s character, one’s judgment, or one’s regard for others. On this view, control and foresight may not be strictly…
If that’s right, can the law do anything about it? Could any reasonable decision-maker, balancing the risk of earthquake against the benefit of a tiny reduction in fuel prices, take the risk? The balancing act concerned isn’t one that can…
In 1970, the philosopher Saul Kripke, who has died aged 81, gave three lectures at Princeton University that shook up Anglo-American philosophy. Speaking without notes, he interwove topics in the separate fields of modal logic (concerning necessity and possibility), philosophy…
* * * * * * * * * * * * Wolff, P. (2007). Representing causation. Journal of experimental psychology: General, 136(1), 82. * * * * * * * * * * * * Anything goes!From a pluralism…
Consider, for example DishBrain,[ii] a very recent – and on-going – experiment in which scientists from eminent universities have grafted human neurons from induced stem cells onto a silicone base and integrated them into computer software to produce an entity…
Some of these children have a condition known as hypospadias, where the urethra opening — the hole for urine and semen — is not at the tip of the penis, but is somewhere closer to the body on the underside…
Do we have a duty to support artists by supporting their illustration work? Many artists likely do not see it as anything but a chore and might be happy with a direct cash transfer rather than having to churn out…
To cut to the end of the chase, Stewart used old 1930’s pre-electric surgical tools for autopsy. And he discovered that decedents who had died from complications of COVID-19 exhibited a very strong positive result to the PCR test for…
Srila Prabhupada wrote in his Jaladuta Diary: S. R. Day. Today there is a great deal of lurching although the sky is clear. Mrs. Pandiya, although a little lady but very intelligent and learned also. She has foretold about my…
Databasing tools such as The Cognitive Atlas and Neurosynth collect and systematize results from fMRI studies. The databases collect activation results from across studies, and index them by the cognitive faculties they are supposed to measure. So, a given study…
Hindsight may make this revelation seem obvious. As a witness to the development of this experiment, however, I observed two narratives. The first is a story of triumph. The second story involves the varying paths taken until success became a…
What we learn from Ibn Arabi is we are all Abraham in this world, immersed in the ocean of interpretations. It is our moral duty to exercise our metaphorical cognitive capacity when we are faced with intellectual works, let it…
I use the recent emergence of optogenetics in neuroscience as an opportunity to explore how scientists evaluate their intervention tools. I look at how scientists promoted and defended optogenetics and what they took to constitute its improvement over time. My…
The first thing one notices when one enters a neuroscience laboratory are the research tools and their infrastructure. They dominate the space. Neuroscience is a paradigmatic laboratory science. Even in our increasingly “computationalist” times, lab-generated data remains paramount. What Motivated…
