Brief Alva Noë article.
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Nature, nurture and liberal values
Roger Scruton weighs in on the nature/nurture debate via a threefold review. (Image another Steve Pyke portrait).
Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
I’ve just come across this article by Andy with a follow-up here.
Some recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience suggests that it is indeed the frugal use of our native neural capacity (the inventive use of restricted “neural bandwidth,” if you will) that explains how brains like ours so elegantly make sense of noisy and ambiguous sensory input.
The neuroscience of happiness
Here’s an interview with Shimon Edelman whose The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life has just been published.
Patricia Churchland
Having missed Pat Churchland’s talk at NEI this past October, it was great that she was in town for a full week of speaking engagements not to mention interviews and other demands being made on her time (and she is supposedly retired!). It was a pleasure to meet her (finally!) having followed her work over the years, most notably her Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain. I recall the outright hostility to this book when I very naively talked about it in a philosophy department. I asked her if she recalled this hostility – and she did – but soldiered on regardless. The book obviously made an impression on me and hence its title appears as the tag line to this website.
Here is a collection of my Churchland related posts. The Science Network has a superb collection of podcasts featuring not only Pat, but the rest of the Churchland “dynasty” including of course her husband Paul and their children Anne and Mark.
Music of the Hemispheres
Check out philosopher Dan Lloyd’s film project. On the film site there are several videos of different brain states worth watching. Dan is, of course, no stranger to using other modalities to communicate his thoughts on consciousness – his book Radiant Cool is a classic in the genre.
Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony plays. It’s the symphony of consciousness, but at the same time it’s the symphony of the brain.
– Dan Lloyd
Two versions the extended mind thesis
Here’s a draft of a forthcoming paper I chanced across.
Strawson reviews Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
Galen Strawson reviews Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow in The Guardian.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011
A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind
The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format of thematic issues
Offers a platform for debate on recent research trends at the junction between philosophy, psychology and cognitive science
Explores the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind
Includes themed issues with both invited and submitted contributions
Hosted at the Jean Nicod Institute, a research centre of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
The Review of Philosophy and Psychology provides a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to philosophers and psychologists, and fosters interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind, including the neural, behavioural and social sciences.The Review publishes theoretical works grounded in empirical research as well as empirical articles on issues of philosophical relevance. It also publishes themed issues featuring invited contributions from leading authors, together with submitted articles.
The quarterly Review of Philosophy and Psychology is hosted at the Jean Nicod Institute, a research centre of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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Seeing What You Mean
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Knowledge Has Always Been Networked
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Behaviourism vs. Phenomenology
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The metaepistemology of knowing-how
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The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
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Nature, nurture and liberal values
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Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
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The neuroscience of happiness
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Patricia Churchland
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Enaction and Dance
