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SUMMARY:Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-Explanations"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \n\nExplaining Sexual Orientation\, or for that matter\, Gender Identity in Trans subjects\, has been at the core of Human Biology for the last 150 years. The technological innovations that nowadays allow us to gain epistemic access to the brain in terms of its structure\, physiology and development are only the most recent examples of this historical trend. In this talk I analyze the structure of these explanations and suggest how an analytic feminist perspective might be useful in detecting and criticizing possible gender biases. \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote\, as his undergraduate thesis\, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006\, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation\, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos\, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms\, Subjectivity\, and Power) \nFabrizzio is currently Assistant Professor\, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)\, in Mexico City. \nThis talk is supported by the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” IHR Research Cluster \n\nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fabrizzio-mcmanus-guerrero-2/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin 152
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SUMMARY:Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \nBrian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974)\, M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate\, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre in California\, and was an adjunct associate professor in the Philosophy and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He was a founder and principal investigator of the Stanford-based Centre for the Study of Language and Information\, and was a founder and first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. \nIn 1996 Brian moved to the Indiana University at Bloomington\, where he was professor of cognitive science\, computer science\, philosophy\, and informatics\, and a fellow of the Center for Social Informatics in the School of Library and Information Sciences. He then moved to Duke University\, as the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of Philosophy and New Technologies\, and professor of Philosophy and Computer Science. \nBrian is the author of more than 35 articles and of On the Origin of Objects (MIT\, 1996). His research focuses on the conceptual foundations of computation and information (to be reported in a 7-volume series\, entitled The Age of Significance: An Essay on the Origins of Computation and Intentionality\, accepted for publication by MIT Press) and on new forms of metaphysics\, ontology\, and epistemology. A two-volume series of edited papers\, entitled Indiscrete Affairs\, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2013. \nAs well as being Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies\, Brian is cross-appointed as Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and in the Program in Communication\, Culture and Technology at University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is also a senior fellow at Massey College\, and a fellow of University College. \nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brian-cantwell-smith-the-couch-or-the-bottle-levels-of-abstraction-and-the-anxious-mind-2/
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SUMMARY:Michael Anderson: "Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \nMichael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M\, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. He earned a B.S. with honors in pre-medical studies at the University of Notre Dame\, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University (where he was a Sterling Prize Fellow)\, and did a post-doc in computer science at the University of Maryland. In 2012 he was selected to be a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, at Stanford University. \nProf. Anderson is author or co-author of over eighty scholarly and scientific publications in artificial intelligence\, cognitive science\, and philosophy of mind. His work has appeared in such journals as Artificial Intelligence\, Behavioral and Brain Sciences\, Connection Science\, Journal of Logic and Computation\, The Neuroscientist\, Philosophical Psychology and Synthese. \nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-anderson-neural-reuse-and-hebbian-learning-two-kinds-of-neuroplasticity-in-the-brain-2/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin 152
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