CFP: Special Issue on “Philosophy of Memory” in Essays in Philosophy

Call for Papers The Philosophy of Memory Essays in Philosophy Volume 19, Number 2 Issue Date: July 2018 Submission Deadline: March 1, 2018 Issue Editors: Ian O’Loughlin (Pacific University) and Sarah Robins (University of Kansas) Memory is a fundamental element of human—and more broadly, animal—intelligence and experience. Given memory’s importance, …

Should We Redefine Statistical Significance? A Brains Blog Roundtable

Consider the following:   Obviously this is bad science and even worse scientific reporting, but what can be done to combat it? More generally, what should be the scholarly response to the growing sense, among scientific researchers and the lay public alike, that scientific publications are not trustworthy — that …

Designed Mind Symposium 2017 Conference Programme

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Exploring the Function, Evolution & Implementation of Consciousness Informatics Forum,University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland 8-9 November 2017 https://designedmind.org   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University Michael Graziano, Princeton University   KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOS Daniel C. Dennett, author of Consciousness Explained (Little, Brown and Co., 1991), Freedom …

The 3rd Annual Minds Online Conference Starts Monday!

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session’s papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post for the rest of the details.

CFP / CFR: Consciousness Research Network (CoRN) Meeting 2017

Consciousness Research Network (CoRN) Meeting 2017 November 3-5, 2017 National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan The focus of the meeting is to connect researchers in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, medical science, biology, robotics and related disciplines in order to deepen our understanding of the nature of consciousness. In the meeting, participants will …

Symposium on Gross and Flombaum, “Does Perceptual Consciousness Overflow Cognitive Access? The Challenge from Probabilistic, Hierarchical Processes”

It’s a pleasure to launch our latest Mind & Language symposium on Steven Gross and Jonathan Flombaum’s “Does Perceptual Consciousness Overflow Cognitive Access? The Challenge from Probabilistic, Hierarchical Processes” from the journal’s June 2017 issue. Our commentators include Jacob Beck (York), Nico Orlandi writing with Aaron Franklin (UC Santa Cruz), and Ian Phillips (Oxford). How are the neural …

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