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Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board belo...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/10/29/recent-progress-on-explaining-intentionality.aspx

The 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind received many excellent submissions but decided to extend the deadline to allow even more...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/05/24/ispsm-2023-deadline-extended-to-june-15th.aspx

What is the mind, and how does it work? Centuries of philosophical and scientific investigation have shown that these questions are too big to be tackled once and for all with a single explanator...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/14/call-for-abstracts-first-annual-web-conference-of-the-international-society-for-the-philosophy-of-the-sciences-of-the-mind.aspx

The contemporary (Fodor-style) Language of Thought (LOT) hypothesis (not to be confused with Sellars’s reasonable hypothesis that some neural processes are somewhat analogous to linguistic epis...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/01/02/why-neuroscience-refutes-the-language-of-thought.aspx

The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) presents: Practical Session: How can philosophers engage in interdisciplinary research? The session will take plac...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/12/31/ispsm-free-online-session.aspx

We are delighted to inform the philosophy community of a newly founded international society: International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) The International Societ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/12/12/international-society-for-the-philosophy-of-the-sciences-of-the-mind.aspx

When I went to graduate school in the 1990s, the mainstream assumptions were that (1) computation properly so called is digital and its limits are defined by classical computability theory, and (...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/11/25/cognitive-science-and-the-different-kinds-of-computation.aspx

(Caveat: for the sake of exposition, at times I articulate past views in slightly anachronistic terms; I do my best to capture the gist of what Alan Turing and others meant in terms that contempo...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/10/11/alan-turing-and-neural-computation.aspx

An Online Conference and Edited Volume October 21-22 and 28-29, 2022 Venue: Neural Mechanisms Online (https://www.neuralmechanisms.org/) Submission deadline: Jun 30, 2022 Organizing Committee: Fa...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/02/04/call-for-papers-neurocognitive-foundations-of-mind.aspx

When I was in graduate school at Pitt around the late 1990s, I hung out with some faculty and students in the Psych Department. One day I asked one of the more ambitious Psych grad students, “w...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/02/03/towards-a-multilevel-mechanistic-computational-representational-explanation-of-cognition.aspx