neurophilosophy | July 6, 2007The blogroll toward the bottom of the sidebar on the left displays 15 random links from the list below.
10,000 Birds
3 Quarks Daily
Abu Aardvark
Acephalous
Ad Hominin
Advances in the History of Psychology
All in the Mind
Anna's Bones
The Annotated Budak
Bad Astronomy
Bad Science
Bering in Mind
The Beautiful Brain
BibliOdyssey
The Big Picture
Bioethics.net
Biology in Science Fiction
Bjorn Brembs
BLDGBLOG
A Blog Around the Clock
Blue Ridge Blog
Body in mind
Bogbumper
Botany Photo of the Day
BPS Research Digest
Brain Ethics
Brain Hammer
Brains
Brain Windows
Bug…
neurophilosophy | July 4, 2007 Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) is arguably the greatest novelist of all time. He cast a long shadow over world literature, and subsequently influenced many great writers, from Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka, to Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jack Kerouac.
Dostoyevsky had a profound insight into the human condition. He was much more than a novelist: he was also a psychologist and a philosopher. In his novels, Dostoyevsky explored subjects such as free will, the existence of God, and good and evil. The characters in his novels are most often portrayed as living…
neurophilosophy | July 3, 2007For most of the nineteenth century, there was an on-going debate among researchers about the organization of the nervous system. One group of researchers, the so-called reticularists, believed that the nervous system consisted of a large network of tissue, or reticulum, formed by the fused processes of nerve cells. The other group, the neuronists, argued that the nervous system consisted of distinct elements, or cells.
Both groups used the same methods to study nerve cells, but came to different conclusions about the fine structure of the nervous system, which could not yet be seen in…
neurophilosophy | July 3, 2007
Here's my Technorati Profile, which I need to link to in order to "claim" my blog on that site, and above is part of a screenshot showing some of the stats for my old blog.
neurophilosophy | July 2, 2007Welcome to the 26th edition of Encephalon, the neuroscience blogging carnival. Encephalon #1 was posted almost exactly a year ago at my WordPress blog, so this edition marks the carnival's first anniversary.
First, let me draw your attention to two new neuroscience blogs. Both authors are researchers who use neuroimaging. Jon Bardin, from the fMRI Laboratory at Columbia University, has a nice post about neuroaesthetics and conceptual art at The Third Culture, and Brad Buchsbaum, of the University of California at Berkeley, has posted parts 1 and 2 of a 4-part series called the four ages of…
neurophilosophy | July 1, 2007The first thing you'll notice upon your arrival here - apart from the annoying frog that periodically leaps across the top of the page - is one of the gorgeous header images.
There are five customized headers in all; one is randomly selected each time the page is reloaded. The images beautifully illustrate my interests in the history of neuroscience as well as in the latest developments in the field. One of them even has my name on it. Can you find it?
Continue reading for more information about the header images and the two lovely ladies who so kindly created them for me.
The grey-blue…
neurophilosophy | July 1, 2007Welcome to Neurophilosophy at ScienceBlogs!
I've been working behind the scenes for about a week, trying to get to grips with using Movable Type. Now I've got the hang of my new blogging platform, and have configured the blog the way I want it - although I'll be making minor modifications and adding various bits and pieces - I'm ready to go. Many thanks to all those who helped me out while I was setting up, especially Chris, Jake and Sandra.
If you've come from my old blog, you can expect more of the same. If you're a new reader, that means regular updates on new neuroscience research and…