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April 3, 2012barry smith, brain, brain damage, brain reading, brain scans, brain science, chris frith, consciousness, dualism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Science of Consciousness

Here is the follow up to an earlier post on The Royal Institution event: presentations discussion BrainChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionHard problem of consciousnessPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaRoyal Institution

March 8, 2012bernard baars, chris frith, cognition, consciousness, Consciousness Online, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, richard brown

Consciousness Online 4

Check out the recently completed online conference. Bravo to Richard Brown for this great initiative. Also check out the forthcoming issue of Consciousness and Cognition that features papers from CO2. CognitionconsciousnessConsciousness and CognitionPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind

February 28, 2012Anil Seth, barry smith, behaviorism, brain science, chris frith, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, mri, naturalism, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physicalism, qualia, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, zombies

Can science ever explain consciousness?

Anil Seth, Chris Frith and Barry Smith (of Birkbeck, not Buffalo!) outline the topography in a podcast. Anil SethBarry SmithChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionMagnetic resonance imagingneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia

July 26, 2008atheism, chomsky, chris frith, civil conversation, cognition, enlightenment, epistemology, grayling, mary midgley, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, relativism, roger penrose, romanticism, social cognition, social epistemology, sociology

Reason with a capital “R”

Anthony Grayling has convened a “symposium” on Reason in the latest issue of the New Scientist. Grayling’s position is very predictable but credit to him and the editors for bringing together a diverse group who for the most part seem to disagree with his conception. Neuroscientist Chris Frith, mathematician Roger Penrose and philosopher Mary Midgley are…