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Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott

I see that CUP now have a page up for Efraim Podoksik’s forthcoming Companion. One doesn’t have to be an astute reader to see that CUP are being slack in that the graphic has Steven Crowell as the editor (Crowell is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism). Judging by the TOC, Podoksik’s volume will be a good…

brain science, Edelman, erol basar, feynman, hebb, heisenberg, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, the sensory order

Views of Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning

Neuroscientist Erol Basar on Hayek F. A. Hayek’s The Sensory Order must rate as one of the most creative books written on general philosophy of neuroscience. Although Hayek was a Noble-prize winner in economics and was not educated as a neuroscientist, his book opens up a new window on neuroscience, and this window certainly offers…

brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Dennett, Descartes, philosophy of mind

Colin McGinn on Philosophy of Mind

McGinn, one of my favourite philosophers of mind, notwithstanding Dennett’s view of McGinn’s well-known position: In the Critics section of this week’s New Statesman, ten pages of which are devoted to a philosophy special, our Critic at Large is Colin McGinn, professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, who surveys the current state of…

brain, brain scans, brain science, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, joaquin fuster, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neural signals, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, Susan Bookheimer

Connectome

Here’s a recent WSJ article summing up the state of play in mapping brain connectivity. Here is Susan Bookheimer who holds the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience chair at UCLA – Fuster is off course a name many readers will recognise from my postings here and here. The images are from the Human Connectome…