Alon’s first set of questions concerns what he calls “spontaneous imaginative projects.” Intuitively, these are imaginings that seem to just pop into our heads from out of nowhere and to bear little if any bearing on what we are doing…
Strangely it might seem, I agree with Peter. In my own taxonomy (see Arcangeli 2018 and 2020) I have identified two different classes of mental phenomena, which (misleadingly, I think) are lumped together under the umbrella “imagination”: imagination as a…
Dretske, F. (2002). A Recipe for Thought. In D. Chalmers (Ed.), Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (pp. 491-499). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Some may worry that the reductive approach I recommend is dismissive, deflationary, or even eliminative of…
19 February 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) Tracers in neuroscience: Causation, constraints, and connectivity Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine) Related: How to connect to Neural Mechanism Webinars Join the session (up to 10 minutes early)…
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…
“King Vasuratha, strong and fearless, was effulgent as the Sun, and handsome as the Moon. In strength, he was like Sri Vishnu, and in forgiveness like the Earth. Charitable and truthful, King Vasuratha constantly offered loving devotional service to the…
Yudhishthira Maharaj said, “Oh Lord Sri Krishna, O glorious son of Vasudeva, please be merciful to me and describe the Ekadasi that occurs during the dark fortnight of the month of Phalguna (February-March).” Lakshmana replied, Oh best of all beings,…
Failing to quarantine in a designated hotel carries a fine of up to £10,000, and those who lie about visiting a red list country could face a ten-year prison sentence. New Zealand considers waiver applications, indicating that they may be…
The concern is not that there is data showing the vaccine to be ineffective in the elderly, it’s that there is not enough evidence to show that it is effective in this age group. The challenge is in how we…
By Doug McConnell Stock markets don’t run purely on a principle of ‘buyer beware’. Market manipulation is illegal and takes informational and transactional forms. A “pump and dump”, for example, is an informational manipulation where one establishes a position, spreads…
Announcing the “Neurorights in Chile: The Philosophical Debate” about the Chilean Senate’s Constitutional Reform Bill (Bulletin 13.827-19) and the Neuroprotection Bill of Law (Bulletin 13.828-19) that introduce five key “neurorights”: The Right to Personal Identity, The Right to Free-Will, The…
News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met with widespread support in the British press. Doctors, public health specialists, and…
Three vaccines are produced by US pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax), although the Pfizer vaccine has been developed in partnership with the German biotechnology company BioNTech, and the Novavax one is being made in the UK. One vaccine is…
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…
