• Gadamer's Aspectival Realism
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 7 985-1014. 2020.
    Gadamer claims that human beings are capable of understanding only ‘aspects’ of reality, yet he also holds that, through these aspects, we understand reality itself. In this sense he is an ‘aspectival realist.’ This paper considers two attempts to explain Gadamer’s aspectival realism: the ‘schematization’ reading defended by Charles Taylor, and the ‘holist’ reading of Brice Wachterhauser. I criticize these views on two fronts: that they are at odds with Gadamer’s texts, and that they fail to rec…Read more
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    LTP induction translocates cortactin at distant synapses in wild-type but not Fmr1 knock-out mice
    with R. R. Seese, A. H. Babayan, A. M. Katz, C. D. Cox, J. C. Lauterborn, and C. M. Gall
    Stabilization of long-term potentiation depends on reorganization of the dendritic spine actin cytoskeleton. The present study tested whether this involves activity-driven effects on the actin-regulatory protein cortactin, and whether such effects are disturbed in the Fmr1 knock-out model of fragile X syndrome, in which stabilization of both actin filaments and LTP is impaired. LTP induced by theta burst stimulation in hippocampal slices from wild-type mice was associated with rapid, broadly dis…Read more