[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Like I don’t have enough going on over at this year’s Online Consciousness Conference (which is still in session until Friday March 1st) I have been sitting in on David Rosenthal’s class at the Graduate Center on Mental Qualities (previous post here). Today he presented an …
We are conducting a study of color discrimination and short-term color memory. I would be grateful if you would participate in the study. You’ll need to use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the color of a square to fit the color of a second image. It will …
Just a quick note that I recently published an article in The Philosophical Forum , “A New Theory of Free Will“, that may be of interest to readers (a free PDF of the penultimate draft is available here). Here’s the abstract: This paper shows that several live philosophical and scientific hypotheses – including …
No word yet on possible funding for philosophers: The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics. The project, which …
Grenada, Spain 9th-12th July, 2013 Deadline for Submissions: 15 March 2013 Keynote speakers: Katherine Nelson (CUNY) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) Michael Martin (UCL/Berkeley) Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) There will be five invited symposia on the following topics:
The Fifth Online Consciousness Conference is now underway! It will run until March 1st so stop by and join in the fun!
In my most recent paper, we report on work in which we trained rats to discriminate among infrared (IR) light sources (normally invisible to the rat). We coupled the output of a head-mounted IR detector to microstimulators in the whisker region of primary somatosensory cortex. The rats initally respond to …
