The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in Mobile, AL from March 31-April 2. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as plenary sessions jointly sponsored by the Philosophy and Psychology Program Committees. The deadline for all philosophy submissions is September 25, 2021. …
We’re pleased to share our latest symposium discussing “Zombie intuitions” a new paper in Cognition by Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) and Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington), with commentaries by David Chalmers (NYU), Keith Frankish (Sheffield), Michelle Liu (Hertfordshire), and Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh). We thank all of the participants for their contributions!
Cambridge Element Physics and Computation was published online. Free copies can be downloaded until September 3rd.
At Brains, we have been holding symposia that showcase recent and forthcoming articles in philosophy of mind and cognitive science appearing in open-access journal, Ergo. I am excited to announce that we will now be expanding this to cover articles published in other open-access journals, and we are inviting your …
I am pleased to announce an online conference program about natural and artificial minds in September. Thanks to Neural Mechanisms partner Marco Viola (and colleagues) for the tip and for organizing! Details below:
I am not a historian. This thought did not occur to me when I set out three years ago to write a book about my field of computational neuroscience, but it has occurred to me many times since. I knew I wanted the book be more than just be a …
Thank you to Nick and his co-editors for inviting us to contribute to this symposium on writing books for general audiences! We have both written several books, and one of us – Weatherall – has written two other books for general audiences. But in this post, we are going to …
Unexpectedly, the eyeball turned out to be the problem. There I was, writing a book about the brain, a manuscript that became The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds, and I was stuck. The big picture was clear in my mind: I wanted to tell the …
Have you ever wondered what it is like to write a cognitive science book for a general audience? This week we find out from the authors of three books. Mark Humphries, The Spike: A Journey Through The Brain in 2.1 Seconds (Princeton, 2021) Grace Lindsay, Models of the Mind: How …
Are you ready to return to in-person conferences? At a beachfront Gulf of Mexico location this September? SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Philosophy and Neuroscience at the Gulf IV Fourth Annual Meeting of the Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup (Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Alabama Philosophical …
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign up for the mailing list that notifies people about upcoming webinars, webconferences, …
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign up for the mailing list that notifies people about upcoming …
We are excited to share information about the Closing Conference of the 2021 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) with you! This is 2-day event featuring keynote addresses from leading researchers in neuroscience and philosophy will be shared remotely from 12-3pm EDT on June 4 and June 5. They …
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of methods from the cognitive sciences to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target post, a practitioner describes their use of …
5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences Call for Papers – Extended Deadline! Online: 15-19 September 2021 website: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2676630182426566 mail: hill@hill.psych.uw.edu.pl Submission deadline: 15 May 2021 22 May 2021 The conference will most likely consist of …
This is the fourth in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Intuition in Philosophy Let’s call the following picture of philosophy the Standard Picture. [A] Philosophers make judgments about knowledge, freedom, wrongness, etc. based on intuitions about knowledge, …
This is the third in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Presentational Conservatism Part 2 of Forming Impressions develops an epistemology of experiences that manifest expertise. My approach is first to discuss the epistemology of experience in general, …
This is the second in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Birds and Physics Problems In Chapters 2 and 3 of Forming Impressions, I argue that both expert perception and expert intuition manifest themselves in experience. When an …
Introduction Radiologists can reliably tell whether a seen x-ray image is abnormal without scanning its details. This is an example of expert perception. Chess masters immediately think of superior moves, so that the move they ultimately choose differs from these initial options only in difficult cases. This is an example …
We are thrilled that Elijah Chudnoff will be sharing and responding to comments about their new book Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuitionorming Impressions (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can find everything in one place here (as it becomes available starting Tuesday).
