We are thrilled to announce the second in our series of Brains Blog Roundtables, focusing on agency! Specifically exciting: this is our first co-hosted roundtable, with our friends at Pea Soup. D...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/01/10/brains-blog-roundtable-agency.aspx
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms websi...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/04/23/ines-hipolito-embodied-skillful-performance.aspx
A large part of our book is thus dedicated to articulating an affect-based bio-semantics, but we also take a run at pre-linguistic syntax or grammar.
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/19/embodied-grammars.aspx
Yesterday I promised to give an account of valent representation. This is perhaps the core original idea of the book (though it has precedents in Ruth Millikan’s ‘pushmi-pullyu’ representat...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/02/12/2-valent-representation.aspx
Welcome to our fifth Ergo symposium. This week we are showcasing Joshua Shepherd’s paper “Halfhearted Action and Control”, with commentaries by Andreas Elpidorou (Louisville), Nora Heinzelm...
Thanks to John Schwenkler for inviting us to guest-blog this week about our new book Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017). It is often said that two mind...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/22/evolving-enactivism-an-introduction.aspx
Yesterday, I suggested that we need a theory of attention that gives attention a central place in the mind and serves as a unified framework that integrates different approaches to attention, bot...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/16/structures-of-the-mind.aspx
Let me tell you about my friend Jayden: these days, Jayden gives a lot of her attention to community work. Jayden has always paid attention to what matters morally over anything else. Her attenti...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/15/who-needs-a-theory-of-attention.aspx
The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of Florida State University is now accepting submissions for their Sixth Annual Graduate Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency. The...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/04/28/cfp-free-will-moral-responsibility-and-agency.aspx
Alva Noë writes at NPR: To move forward and understand the human mind, or the minds of nonhuman animals , we need to look outside the brain at the animal’s behavior, that is, at how animals ...
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/03/10/why-the-science-of-consciousness-needs-philosophy.aspx