Join us this week on the #BrainsBlog for a symposium on Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta's new book, The #Brain Abstracted (#MIT) with commentary from Dr. Mark Sprevak, Dr. Carrie Figdor, Dr. Dimitri Coelho Mollo, and Dr. Tina Röck.

Today’s post from Chirimuuta provides a précis and overview of the #book's content:
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/05/13/the-brain-abstracted-overview-and-precis.aspx

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This week featured our latest book symposium on Tillman Vierkant's book The Thinkering Mind (Oxford U. Press 2023).

https://philosophyofbrains.com/category/books/tillman-vierkant-the-tinkering-mind

Till gave a precise of the book and then commentaries followed each day thereafter.

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📢 🎬 🧠 We're premiering the 1st of 7 sets of FREE videos from "A Beginner's Guide To Neural Mechanisms".

Now even pre-college students can learn about #neurophilosophy!

Today's 2 topics:
- #Neuroscience of #FreeWill
- The #MereologicalFallacy

This was a joint project between the #BrainsBlog and #NeuralMechanismsOnline funded by the #TempletonWorldCharityFoundation via #DukeUniversity's Summer Seminars in #Neuroscience and #Philosophy.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/09/22/two-short-videos-about-free-will-mereological-fallacies.aspx

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"'A Suspicious Science' [#OxfordUniversityPress] is divided into two parts. The first part describes the history and contemporary practices of empirical #psychology [and in] the second part of the book, I explore popular forms of #psychology such as #selfHelp literature and its reliance on magical thinking."

Find out more about Amazon's "#1 New Release in #CognitivePsychology" in this week's series about it on the #BrainsBlog: https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/26/a-suspicious-science-the-uses-of-psychology.aspx

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