Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts

Monday, 18 March 2013

Eliminating Eliminativism

The Maverick Philosopher down among the eliminativists.

I have to confess that, as someone who was never formally trained in philosophy, I can't even begin to see how eliminativism can address the points that Bill Vallicella raises here, along with the ones Feser investigates in his series of posts on Rosenberg's book.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Just Plain Weird

From the article: "Eyes Work Without Connection to Brain: Ectopic Eyes Function Without Natural Connection to Brain":

"For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain."

via John Farrell's Progressive Download blog.