Two takes on consciousness
David Chalmers at TED on the hard problem; Eric Schwitzgebel at his blog on a possible problem for Giulio Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory.
Year: 2014
Philosophers’ Carnival #166
… is at Philosophical Disquisitions.
Rebooting the Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds
Via Kristin Andrews (who, incidentally, will be a featured scholar at Brains beginning in mid-September) comes news of a “reboot” of the Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds (yes, SPAM), which is “a means to promote and support the work of philosophers and scientists interested in philosophical questions about …
Is neuroscience ready to replace philosophy?
Of course not! Still, here are Maggie Boden, Barry Smith, and Steven Rose discussing the question at a forum hosted by the Institute for Art and Ideas: Watch more videos on iai.tv
CFP – Technological Mediation & Changing Conceptions of Humanity
Please see the following Call for Authors: https://philevents.org/event/show/15174 (Feel free to contact me, if you have questions.) Cheers! Frank Scalambrino https://udallas.academia.edu/FrankScalambrino Summary Version of the Call for Authors: This edited volume seeks to bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss the social effects of technological mediation, focusing on the …
Precis of Attention (Routledge)
A precis of my book, Attention, can be found at Lisa Bortolotti’s blog, Imperfect Cognitions: https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.de/2014/07/attention.html Both Lisa and I were featured scholars here as Jakob is now (thanks John). I still(!) think attention is important and happy to have any discussion of the topic or on the book, here …
It Takes Talent, Determination, Good Teachers, and Deliberate Practice
Today’s NY Times has an article about a new paper in Psychological Science on whether talent or practice is more important for elite performance. In a meta-analysis, the psychologists “found that deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, …