The Brains Blog is proud to announce our partnership with Neural Mechanisms Online! Long-time readers will remember our Minds Online conferences of 2015, 2016, and 2017. As the Brains team stepped back from annual conferences, Neural Mechanisms Online (NMO) became a new source for free, live, online exchanges between philosophers of mind and …
Now that summer is nearing its end, activities at the blog will be picking up again. In addition to the upcoming symposium on Wayne Wu’s article, “Against Division: Consciousness, Information and the Visual Streams”, from the September 2014 issue of Mind & Language (with commentaries by David Kaplan, Pete Mandik, and …
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 …
For any philosophers or psychologists on Twitter, experimental philosophy has started an official twitter account. To see what has been going on in the x-phi world, or to follow xphilosopher, you can follow this link: https://twitter.com/xphilosopher
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The University of Pennsylvania announces their Neuroscience Boot Camp, August 2-12, 2009. Why Neuroscience Boot Camp? Neuroscience is increasingly relevant to a number of professions and academic disciplines beyond its traditional medical applications. Lawyers, educators, economists and businesspeople, as well as scholars of philosophy, sociology, applied ethics and policy, are …
Marc Hauser’s lab has a webpage where they conduct a moral sense test. More tests are listed in the end page.
