(Sorry it’s been a while since I posted one of these!) The following books and articles by contributors to the Brains blog were added to PhilPapers from mid-July to September. – JS Marcus Arvan (forthcoming). How to Rationally Approach Life’s Transformative Experiences. Philosophical Psychology. Robert Briscoe (forthcoming). Review of Words and Images: …
The Duke Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that professors Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong have received a $1.8 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation to conduct yearly Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) starting in May, 2016. Each SSNAP will be a 15 day long …
Among philosophers, autonomous agency usually requires having some kind of metacognitive awareness that permits thinking about one’s reasons for action and being self-governing. Autonomous agency, then, requires metacognition. But it requires metacognition of a certain sort, namely beliefs about beliefs. The question about whether any other animal is metacognitive has …
** Note the extended deadline of Nov. 1 ** ************************************************************ CALL FOR POSTERS AND FLASH TALKS – Extended submissions deadline: November 1 Reciprocity and Social Cognition Symposium Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 23rd-25th March 2015 ************************************************************ Extended submissions deadline: November 1, 2014 Notifications sent: November 15, 2014 For more …
