A donor has given $7.7 million to the University of Michigan to fund an institute in cognitive science.
Here’s another excellent reply to Neil deGraase Tyson’s remarks on philosophy, this time from Massimo Pigliucci. (h/t Daily Nous)
Should we move beyond blame? Barbara H. Fried and other philosophers discuss. (h/t Kyle Fritz on Facebook)
Recently there have been couple of interesting threads at Brian Leiter’s blog: one on the ethics of live-blogging lectures; another on the challenges of publication for philosophers outside the Anglophone world.
And finally, a couple of upcoming events at Duke University might be of interest to readers in the area: a conference on the work of Fred Dretske on May 14, and then a workshop on the philosophy of information from May 15-16. (h/t Felipe De Brigard)
The Dretske conference was really good. In particular, Peter Godfrey-Smith did a lot to restore my faith in philosophers’ ability to think productively about cognition. Not sure when his paper will be out, but it was a good overview of what you get when you combine early Dretske with 20 years of taking the good parts seriously (i.e., the opposite of https://philosophyofbrains.com/2011/06/20/was-psychosemantics-a-failure.aspx).