The brain can't be solved by a purely reductionistic approach. Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #neuroscience

Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience

Engrams are a hypothetical construct in neuroscience used to explain memory phenomena. The search for engrams has been energised by the advent of certain reductionist methods that intervene at lower l...

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Ken Aizawa's approach in Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretations is "groundbreaking in envisioning abductive inferences in science as instances of singular compositional confirmations that individually provide defeasible support for a hypothesis." Mace's review: tinyurl.com/588mp972

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our @danafoundation.bsky.social funded Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration (ITRC) grant! We're excited to see their projects unfold over the next year and to learn about the final results at SPAN2027! philandneuro.wildapricot.org/ITRC

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tomorrow is the last day to register for this weekend's conference: To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model. Find more information and the registration link on our website: https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/to-be-or-not-to-be-included-in-a-causal-model/ #philsci

🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)! More info: tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan #philsky

Tomasz Wysocki presented “The Recursive Structure of Causation....”: "Experimental evidence suggests ...recursion better captures how people think about #causation" Thanks to @caitlinmace.bsky.social for putting the Society for #Philosophy of Causation (SPOC) on Bsky: @causationscience.bsky.social

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

SPAN 2025: Call for papers 🧠 Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 Keynote and invited symposia schedule coming soon! Visit: philandneuro.com/submissions

Thrilled to have had the privilege of interacting with this outstanding group of young consciousness lovers at the CIFAR winter school! Huge thanks to the great organizers, Chris Krupenye, Catherine Duclos and Guillaume Dumas. And to TWCF! In the comment, a less dignified photo