The ’ought implies can’ principle in epistemology holds that if one cannot be in doxastic state D, then one is not epistemically required to be in D. This generates a puzzle. On the one hand, something like this principle must be true, since we’re not rationally required to think like supercomputers. But on the other hand, it also seems to imply that any belief is rationally permissible, no matter how epistemically egregious, just so long as the believer can’t do any better — and surely that can’t be right.

The Group for Neural Theory (GNT) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special workshop.

Register here until May 20 to reserve your place. 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Motor control, the art of coordinating muscles to produce intricate movements, is a marvel of biological intelligence. Understanding how the brain controls movement represents one of neuroscience's grand challenges. Central to this challenge is proprioception, which proves crucial for bodily perception and motor control, despite remaining poorly understood. Specifically, how the nervous system integrates information from numerous distributed receptors throughout the body remains an open question.

This one-day seminar brings together researchers from cognitive (neuro)science, social psychology, behavioral science, and computational modelling to explore how cognitively informed models of decision-making can advance sustainability and climate action.

Séminaire "Penser avec la Palestine"

Ce séminaire d’élèves transdisciplinaire est soutenu par 8 départements de l’ENS : les départements de Géographie, d’Histoire, de Philosophie, de Sciences sociales, d’Économie, d’Études cognitives, ainsi que par le CERES et ECLA.

The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. W= hile the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortica= l areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions operate collectiv= ely to form percepts and implement cognitive processes. In particular, it r=emains unknown how distributed, potentially conflicting computations can be= reconciled. Here we show that the reciprocal excitatory connections betwee= n cortical areas orchestrate neural dynamics to facilitate the gradual emer= gence of a =E2=80=98consensus=E2=80=99 across areas.

Vagues, subjectives, difficilement réfutables… Les informations floues biaisent le débat public et laissent prospérer fake news et manipulations.

This paper brings together two lively debates within philosophy of perception, namely, the perceivability of absences and the range of perceptual content. My argument is based on the idea that, if absences are truly perceivable, as I claim to be the case, then the Conservative View about perceptual content is false. First, I briefly present the current debate on absence experience, outlining the three main views that have been advanced, namely the Cognitive, the Meta-Cognitive, and the Perceptual View.