I wanted to let you all know about a new exciting project going on at Duke University: Neuro.Tv, a monthly online discussion between psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers talking about minds, brains and behaviors. Take a look! The link is: neuro.tv.
On artificial intelligence and downloading our minds into computers, in the NY Times’ The Stone.
Another discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas, featuring Simon Saunders, Mark Rowlands, and Hannah Dawson: Watch more videos on iai.tv
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in February. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Berit Brogaard (forthcoming). An Empirically-Informed Cognitive Theory of Propositions. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard, Eddy Nahmias, Chandra Sripada & Lisa Ross (2014). The Free Will Inventory: Measuring Beliefs About Agency and Responsibility. Consciousness and Cognition 25:27-41. …
As part of this year’s Australasian Association of Philosophy meeting (6th-11th July, Australian National University) The Australasian Society for Cognitive Science will be coordinating a stream Advances in Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences and Psychology. In recent decades philosophers taking a rigorously naturalistic approach to the mind (broadly treating minds …
Another guest post by Bill Skaggs, whose earlier contribution generated some nice discussion. – JS *** Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting aspect of the etymology that …
“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” — Martin Luther “[M]en believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza We have an intuitive …
