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Sunday, February 14, 2010
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Here are a few of the blogs on Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science that I follow regularly.
Mixing Memory
The Splintered Mind
Brain Hammer
Mind Hacks
Neurophilosophy
Cognitive Daily
The Frontal Cortex
Most of these blogs include their own blogrolls, from which you can find other interesting blogs and web sites.
Mixing Memory
The Splintered Mind
Brain Hammer
Mind Hacks
Neurophilosophy
Cognitive Daily
The Frontal Cortex
Most of these blogs include their own blogrolls, from which you can find other interesting blogs and web sites.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
A tweet cloud of frequent terms from past tweets.
From http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/
From http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Says Beck: "We are stomping all over the Pilgrims this holiday" but they would be "smacking us upside the head with those big funny shaped hats that they used to wear." Bring it on Pilgrims! You thought lions and tigers and bears and American Indians were dangerous, but haven't seen anything like the new American progressive.
I'm slowly migrating my web site to a new host. I'm using domain name "shadesfogrue.com" for the new host until I can move my preferred domain name "rudygarns.com" over. My blog and a wiki have already moved; once the semester is over I can move the class material.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The hard sciences are interpenetrating the social sciences. This isn?t dehumanizing. It shines attention on the things poets have traditionally cared about: the power of human attachments. It may even help policy wonks someday see people as they really are. (Brooks - NYTimes.com)
- social cognitive neuroscience
- Matthew Lieberman of U.C.L.A
- Keely Muscatell
- Reem Yahya
- Mina Cikara
- Jonathan B. Freeman
- Saaid A. Mendoza and David M. Amodio
- Claire Hoogendoorn, Elizabeth Phelps and others at N.Y.U
- The hard sciences are interpenetrating the social sciences.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Kwame Anthony Appiah - Experiments in Ethics (Review)
Reviewed by John M. Doris, Washington University in St. Louis and Jesse J. Prinz, City University of New York Graduate Center
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Two Monkeys Get the Gift of Color
The Neitzes, with Katherine Mancuso and other colleagues, used the technique of gene therapy to introduce the gene for the missing red pigment into the cone cells of the monkeys? retinas. Several months after the therapy, Dalton and Sam were able to see a world in which red hues were visible and oranges no longer looked like lemons, the researchers say in the current issue of Nature.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Many philosophers have worried about what philosophy is. Often they have looked for answers by considering what it is that philosophers do. Given the diversity of topics and methods found in philosophy, however, we propose a different approach. In this article we consider the philosophical temperament, asking an alternative question: What are philosophers like? Our answer is that one important aspect of the philosophical temperament is that philosophers are especially reflective. This claim is supported by a study of more than 5,000 philosophers and non-philosophers, the results of which indicate that even when we control for overall education level, philosophers tend to be significantly more reflective than their peers. We then illustrate this tendency by considering what we know about the philosophizing of a few prominent philosophers. Recognizing this aspect of the philosophical temperament, it is natural to wonder how philosophers came to be this way: Does philosophical training teach reflectivity or do more reflective people tend to gravitate to philosophy? We consider the limitations of our data with respect to this question and suggest that a longitudinal study be conducted.
A debate in Nature on Darwin and the mind
Last April, Johan J. Bolhuis and Clive D. L. Wynne published in Nature (458(7240), 832-833) a paper entitled "Can evolution explain how minds work?" doubting the use and usefulness of evolutionary analysis in understanding cognitive mechanisms. In response, Lewis Wolpert ("Cognition: evolution does help to explain how minds work" in Nature, 459(7246), 506-50), Sara J. Shettleworth ("Cognition: theories of mind in animals and humans." in Nature, 459(7246), 506-506) and Frans B. M. de Waal ("Darwin's last laugh." in Nature 460, 175 (9 July 2009) freely available here) separately defended the use of evolutionary theory, and in particular comparative analysis, in the study of cognition.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
This fall's book selection for the Cognitive Neuroscience Discussion Group is David Linden's The Accidental Mind. We will meet every other Monday at noon starting September 14 in SC 200. Please join us and encourage students and new faculty to join us as well.
Book Overview:
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones.
To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design--and in its place gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain's serendipitous evolution has resulted in nothing short of our humanity. A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, The Accidental Mind shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible: our long childhoods, our extensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and, ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this analysis of mental function answers some of our most common questions about how we've come to be who we are.
Book Overview:
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones.
To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design--and in its place gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain's serendipitous evolution has resulted in nothing short of our humanity. A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, The Accidental Mind shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible: our long childhoods, our extensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and, ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this analysis of mental function answers some of our most common questions about how we've come to be who we are.
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