The ethical quandary at the core of how we represent the mind in practical uses of psychology is the technology of agency. The biomedical and psychodynamic (i.e., discursive) approaches are “tw...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/30/drugs-and-agency.aspx
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy! The aim of the series is to examine the use of methods from the cognitive sciences to generate philosophica...
Announcing the “Neurorights in Chile: The Philosophical Debate” about the Chilean Senate’s Constitutional Reform Bill (Bulletin 13.827-19) and the Neuroprotection Bill of Law (Bulletin 13.8...
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https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/11/13/job-postdoc-in-ethics-in-neuroscience.aspx
In the previous post, I showed how the self-structure could be specified. The self has also some properties, e.g., phenomenal, social, and ethical ones, that are capable of being specified in str...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/11/02/3-aspects-of-the-self.aspx
Part 1 approached the problem of deception from a computational perspective, arguing that, in order to reason effectively about deception, an agent must be able to represent not only the …
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/03/16/reasoning-about-deceit-2-political-discourse.aspx
He who says that all things happen of necessity can hardly find fault with one who denies that all happens by necessity; for on his own theory this very argument is voiced by necessity (Epicurus...
Suppose you agreed with me that the science of well-being should strive to be value-apt, that mid-level theories is the way to provide value-aptness, and that all of this is compatible with scien...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/12/11/is-well-being-a-number.aspx
Here’s an attitude I sometimes encounter among scientists: “It is not my job as a scientist to figure out what true well-being is and to choose my constructs accordingly. My job is to stud...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/12/07/can-science-well-value-free.aspx
Different people expect different things from theories of well-being. Some expect that they systematise in a maximally general way intuitions about goods that constitute well-being, others that t...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/12/05/expect-theorising-well.aspx