The Brains Blog

Brains is happy to help publicize the CFP for a special issue of Res Philosophica. The topic is “Rationality and the First Person” and there is a prize for the top paper! See full details her...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/29/cfp-special-issue-of-res-philosophica-rationality-and-the-first-person.aspx

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/2024/10/23/rethinking-biological-functions.aspx

Call for PapersThis special issue of Synthese seeks to explore the breadth and depth of Daniel Dennett’s ideas across a range of disciplines, including scientific ontology, philosophy of scienc...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/21/synthese-special-issue-daniel-dennett-an-interdisciplinary-perspective.aspx

We’re happy to help publicize the following announcement of the brand-new “Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience” (SPAN)! Please see their info below, and consider applying to the first m...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/07/announcement-the-society-for-philosophy-and-neuroscience-span.aspx

Many thanks again to Andre Curtis-Trudel, Marcin Milkowski, Danielle Williams, and Mazviita Chirimuuta for their commentaries on our recent book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Ma...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/04/why-computation-is-medium-independent.aspx

The Physical Signature of Computation (PSC) builds on previous publications by Gualtiero Piccinini that have shaped the debate over the nature of information processing in the brain. I will focus...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/04/the-case-against-medium-independence.aspx

The Physical Signature of Computation is the most “robust” mapping view that’s ever hit the market. It is impressive in its detail and the careful attention paid to its characterization of ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/03/10-13140-rg-2-2-35310-63041.aspx

Anderson and Piccinini (2024) offer a foundational approach to understanding physical computation. The book’s primary aim is to defend the notion of physical computation against trivialization....

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/02/mapping-robustly-mechanisms-out.aspx

The Physical Signature of Computation is an impressive book. Anderson and Piccinini have given us one of the most thoroughly articulated account of physical computation to date. At the center of ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/01/whos-afraid-of-unlimited-pancomputationalism.aspx

This week the Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini’s new book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account (Oxford University Press; eB...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/09/30/introductory-remarks-on-the-physical-signature-of-computation-a-robust-mapping-account.aspx