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

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

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