I don't think so, sadly. I'm planning to write up a draft in the next month or two, though, so happy to send it around if there's interest!
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I don't think so, sadly. I'm planning to write up a draft in the next month or two, though, so happy to send it around if there's interest!
I'm giving a talk on how to settle disagreements about how participants should respond to tasks and why it's relevant to cognitive explanation, especially in judgement and decision-making psychology. register by tomorrow to listen in on Friday 4pm CET/ 10am ET/ 8am MT
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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
#neuroskyence
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What is "mechanism-task fit" and why should philosophers and neuroscientists care about it? Check out my post for The Feedback at @socphilneuro.bsky.social
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An upcoming philosophy of neuroscience conference CFP. The organizers strongly encourage submissions from neuroscientists doing population recording, & in particular short talks that draw on ongoing research to address the theoretical questions highlighted in the CFP:
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Reminder that there's still time to submit to this nice online conference. Deadline is May 1st, 2025
Thank you, Luiz!!
This paper is the latest in a project I'm working on, where I try to show that tasks and task norms (which define what counts as "correct" task performance) play an indispensable role in shaping psychological and neuroscientific explanation. (5/5)
Using retinal edge detection and frontal sound localisation as case studies, I argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when it satisfies all the constraints on competent task performance (even if there is no shared computational structure). (4/x)
In a series of papers, Shagrir and Bechtel argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when they share the same computational structure. (3/x)
My paper starts with David Marr's insight that even if we had a complete description of a neural mechanism, we would still need an explanation for how that neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs. (2/x)
New pub at the British Journal for Philosophy of Science!
"Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience" (1/x)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Call for abstract announced for ISPSM 2025: see https://philevents.org/event/show/133458 for more information.
Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨
Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025
See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details.
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SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!