Freud’s Cognitive Revolution
Check out my colleague’s article in Psychology Today. PsychologyPsychology TodaySigmund Freud
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Consciousness Online ’12
Here is the programme for the soon to be happening CO4 conference, a great initiative started by Richard Brown. consciousnessPhilosophy
Rob Rupert Papers
Check out two forthcoming papers from Rob Rupert, one of the sharpest minds around: 1. Against Group Cognitive States (forthcoming in S. Chant and G. Preyer (eds.), From Individual to Collective Intentionality. No listing on OUP’s website yet). English users are not fazed by such sentences as “Microsoft intends to develop a new operating system” and…
A Romp Through Philosophy of Mind
Here is the delightful Marianne Talbot (thrown out of school at 15 for “truancy and disruption”) presenting four podcasts: Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won’t Work Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face Part 3: If Physicalism won’t work, what is the alternative? Part 4: Are we asking the wrong questions?…
Seeing What You Mean
Brief Alva Noë article.
Behaviourism vs. Phenomenology
Hat-tip to Nola Semczyszyn for this. CognitionCognitive sciencePhilosophy of mind
Nature, nurture and liberal values
Roger Scruton weighs in on the nature/nurture debate via a threefold review. (Image another Steve Pyke portrait). Roger Scrutonsteve pyke
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…
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. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognition
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…
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