Hello. Im Diana, Im in the Cognitive Science track. I did my BA in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. I've focused mainly on Analytical Philosophy, did as many Philosophy of Mind and Logic courses as I could, which led me to writing a final thesis on cognition enhancement by means of nanotechnology (for some reason that made me kind of unpopular).
I spent my last year in Cracow, Poland where I translated a manual about the Lvov-Warsaw logicians. It seems that the school was pretty much the top of its domain until second World War. After that, the Dutch people took over...This is pretty much the reason why Im here. That and the fact that I am interested in the brain.
I have this hunch that most of the problems in philosophy could be answered by looking deeper into our heads and not into some abstract formal models or theories. From all the philosophers, I felt closest to Nietzsche (he thinks that "there is more wisdom in your body than in the deepest Philosophy) and Quine (who believes that philosophy had to become an "empirical science").
I tried to prove in my thesis that there is no valid philosophical argument against the idea that neuroscience and cognitive science could give us a complete explanation of the way we think. It is sufficient to just assume strong evolutionism and consistency of arguments and then you see that there are no real critiques to this.
Now I want to see if it is possible to bridge the gap between cognitive and neuroscience. For that I think it is sufficient to explain a neuroscientific theory with a formal system commonly used in cognitive science. Something that people tried to do before was explaining neural networks through non-monotonic logic, so this will be pretty much my direction for the first semester project. If anyone else is interested in this, I would love to talk about it since I am still looking for partners for the first project. I already found some people who might supervise this in two Institutes, all I need now is someone willing to participate.