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Jun 7, 1999 · The Philosophy of Neuroscience. First published Mon Jun 7, 1999; substantive revision Tue Aug 6, 2019. Over the past four decades, philosophy of science has grown increasingly “local”. Concerns have switched from general features of scientific practice to concepts, issues, and puzzles specific to particular disciplines.
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Oct 9, 2018 · The discussion that follows will highlight specific areas of cortex including the prefrontal cortex that will figure in discussions of confidence (section 2.3), the global neuronal workspace (section 3.1) and higher order theories (section 3.3); the dorsal visual stream that projects into parietal cortex and the ventral visual stream that projects into temporal cortex including visual areas ...
Sep 23, 1996 · Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Its intellectual origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in several fields began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations and computational ...
Jan 17, 2024 · The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works? There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of ...
Oct 16, 2020 · Abstract. In this chapter I analyze selected aspects of the contemporary investigations on consciousness and the brain. First, I introduce kinds of materialism and functionalism formulated in philosophy of mind since the 1950s, pointing out the gap between theories and their future empirical corroboration.
- Paolo Pecere
- paolo.pecere@uniroma3.it
- 2020
Neurophilosophy or the philosophy of neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind. The philosophy of neuroscience attempts to clarify neuroscientific methods and results using the conceptual rigor ...
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Mar 21, 2019 · With the 4-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the team plans to study how the brain enables conscious control of decisions and actions. Overall, it hopes to establish a new field in the study of the brain: the neurophilosophy of free will.
