A brief introductory, though opinionated, audio piece on mind and body with philosopher of mind and superb expositor, Tim Crane. Made possible courtesy of Philosophy Bites, a nice resource with several other introductory philosophical discussions.
I’ve just come across an article entitled “Gamma Oscillations Distinguish True From False Memories” that has just appeared in the November issue of Psychological Science. I haven’t had an opportunity to read the article beyond the abstract: To test whether distinct patterns of electrophysiological activity prior to a response can distinguish true from false memories, we…
This article from Canadian Press struck a nerve. Not being au fait with the recent clinical literature on the subject of Alzheimer’s I was interested to read that there is a correlation between the formally educated mind and the onset of dementia. As a child of a dementia sufferer (a mother – cultured and refined but not…
I for one am very pleased that consciousness has become a topic for discussion amongst the literati. I welcome the accessible writing of David Armstrong, Susan Blackmore, Andy Clark, Tim Crane, Dan Dennett, Gerald Edelman and Stephen Pinker to name but a few of the more prominent popular expositors. But I cringe at the dreadful hyperbole…
Dennett on top fighting form.
A 1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter“. The protagonist is Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. The film features interviews with a youngish Hofstadter and a never young looking Dan Dennett :) (90 minutes).
This is an article I culled from Scientific American.com. What struck me about this article is that it features the work of Joaquín Fuster, one of the very few first-order neuroscientists who appreciate Hayek’s proto-connectionism (the other being Edelman). Fuster really deserves to be better known within the philosophy of mind community – his writing is highly accessible. I thoroughly…
In the wake of Dennett and Dawkins, two more prominent names weigh in on atheism. This article from Salon.com I reproduce here because of annoying pop-up adverts. Also see David Berreby’s piece on Dawkins (Berreby happens to drop in a reference to Oakeshott – this Oakeshott fellow seems to be getting fashionable amongst bloggers). Readers might be interested in…
The September 7th issue of Science is a special issue devoted to social cognition: the table of contents found here. I reproduce the introduction “Living in Societies” by Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi and Andrew Sugden. The appearance of this issue has prompted me to post the introduction to the special issue of social cognition…
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