Sam Barker at the Institute for Art and Ideas asked me to share some information about a very cool looking philosophy festival that will be held this summer in the UK. He writes: HowTheLightGetsIn is the world’s largest philosophy festival taking place Hay-on-Wye in the UK this summer from 22nd May – 1st …
Call for Papers: The 30th Annual Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Neurons, Mechanisms, and the Mind: The History and Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience October 10–12, 2014, at the University of Colorado at Boulder Our developing understanding of the mind depends extensively on neural data collected by fMRI, EEG, …
… at Aesthetics for Birds, with lots of really excellent content this month.
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space and time and mind! The first episode is up now (and has been …
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) is hosting a Summer School from the 11th to the 25th of August 2014 devoted to the Free Will problem led by the world renowned expert Prof. John Martin Fischer. Graduate students and young PhDs are welcome to take part in the “Free Will and …
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in March. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS J. Robert Thompson (2014). Signature Limits in Mindreading Systems. Cognitive Science 38 (2). Kristina Musholt & Eileen Munro (forthcoming). Neuroscience and the Risks of Maltreatment. Children and Youth Services Review. E. Machery (forthcoming). Review of Words and Thoughts: …
See the following video from the Emerson-Wier Liberal Arts Symposium on the topic of interdisciplinarity at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Spaulding’s remarks begin at 25 minutes, and Kandel’s response begins at 1:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y0KXh1bTqqM There has been a fair amount of discussion recently on Facebook concerning how to frame …
