Neuroscience
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits): Did working memory spark creative culture? How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including...
- Cogsci To Psycinfo?!
It's not often that my cognitive science interests and my library science interests overlap, but here's one of those times. This note came into my email & I thought it might interest others: APA Invites You to Participate in a Cognitive Science...
- "the Crusade Against Religion"
Been meaning to post about the November 2006 article in Wired magazine called The Crusade Against Religion, but time kept slipping away. Plus, I didn't much agree with the article, and now that I've heard a counter argument to the "new atheism",...
- Religion: Spandrel Or Adaptation?
Have you been following the debate over religion & science? Whether you have or not, if you're interested, you should definitely check out Darwin's God, an article in Sunday's New York Times magazine. Robin Marantz Henig summarizes the debate...
- Daniel Dennett Podcast On Public Radio’s Tech Nation
From their podcast entry in iTunes, "Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and author of Breaking the Spell -- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. He looks at the emergence of religion throughout...
Neuroscience
Upcoming 'New Scientist' Feature
The next issue of New Scientist magazine will run a feature on 'God And The Mind: What Happens When Neuroscience Meets Religion?'
This looks right up my street! Though I sigh at the thought of the vested interests taking part in the same old 'science vs. religion' debates that this will generate.
Anyhow, stay tuned. :-)
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits): Did working memory spark creative culture? How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including...
- Cogsci To Psycinfo?!
It's not often that my cognitive science interests and my library science interests overlap, but here's one of those times. This note came into my email & I thought it might interest others: APA Invites You to Participate in a Cognitive Science...
- "the Crusade Against Religion"
Been meaning to post about the November 2006 article in Wired magazine called The Crusade Against Religion, but time kept slipping away. Plus, I didn't much agree with the article, and now that I've heard a counter argument to the "new atheism",...
- Religion: Spandrel Or Adaptation?
Have you been following the debate over religion & science? Whether you have or not, if you're interested, you should definitely check out Darwin's God, an article in Sunday's New York Times magazine. Robin Marantz Henig summarizes the debate...
- Daniel Dennett Podcast On Public Radio’s Tech Nation
From their podcast entry in iTunes, "Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and author of Breaking the Spell -- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. He looks at the emergence of religion throughout...