The aim of our journal club is to discuss theoretical and philosophical papers related to neuroscience and cognitive sciences. The journal club is organized on Wednesdays, 4:15 PM at Nencki Institute (Konorski Hall) or online – contact us to obtain the link!
January 10th 2024
Colaço, D., & Robins, S. (2023). Why have “revolutionary” tools found purchase in memory science?. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 4.
December 20th 2023
Miller, C. T., Gire, D., Hoke, K., Huk, A. C., Kelley, D., Leopold, D. A., … & Niell, C. M. (2022). Natural behavior is the language of the brain. Current Biology, 32(10), R482-R493.
November 22th 2023
Sullivan, J. (2021). Understanding stability in cognitive neuroscience through Hacking’s lens. Philosophical Inquiries, 9(1), 189-208.
November 8th 2023
Bechtel, W. (2015). Can mechanistic explanation be reconciled with scale-free constitution and dynamics?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 53, 84-93.
October 25th 2023
Millikan, R. G. (1989). In defense of proper functions. Philosophy of science, 56(2), 288-302.
October 11th 2023
McCaffrey, J. B. (2023). Evolving Concepts of Functional Localization. Philosophy Compass, e12914.
Academic year 2022/2024
April 19th 2023
O’Byrne, J., & Jerbi, K. (2022). How critical is brain criticality?. Trends in Neurosciences.
April 5th 2023
Buzsáki, György, and David Tingley. „Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory.” Annual Review of Neuroscience 46 (2023).
March 22th 2023
Kaplan, H. S., Thula, O. S., Khoss, N., & Zimmer, M. (2020). Nested neuronal dynamics orchestrate a behavioral hierarchy across timescales. Neuron, 105(3), 562-576.
March 5th 2023
Levenstein, D., Alvarez, V. A., Amarasingham, A., Azab, H., Gerkin, R. C., Hasenstaub, A., & Iyer, R. (2020). On the Role of Theory and Modeling in Neuroscience. arXiv. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13825.
Feb 22th 2023
Westlin, C., Theriault, J. E., Katsumi, Y., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kucyi, A., Ruf, S. F., … & Barrett, L. F. (2023). Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Feb 8th 2023
Nave, K., Deane, G., Miller, M., & Clark, A. (2020). Wilding the predictive brain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(6), e1542.
January 25th 2023
Lyon, P. (2015). The cognitive cell: bacterial behavior reconsidered. Frontiers in microbiology, 6, 264.
November 30th 2022
Faust, K. M., Carouso-Peck, S., Elson, M. R., & Goldstein, M. H. (2020). The origins of social knowledge in altricial species. Annual review of developmental psychology, 2, 225.
November 2nd 2022
Nelson, N. C. (2013). Modeling mouse, human, and discipline: Epistemic scaffolds in animal behavior genetics. Social Studies of Science, 43(1), 3-29.
October 19th 2022
1) Doerig, A., Sommers, R., Seeliger, K., Richards, B., Ismael, J., Lindsay, G., … & Kietzmann, T. C. (2022). The neuroconnectionist research programme. arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03718.
October 5h 2022
1) Kaplan, D. M., & Bechtel, W. (2011). Dynamical models: An alternative or complement to mechanistic explanations?
2) Miłkowski, M. (2016). Explanatory completeness and idealization in large brain simulations: A mechanistic perspective
September 19 th 2022
1) Bickle, J. (2022). Tinkering in the Lab. In The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment (pp. 13-36). Routledge.
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