The submission deadline for the 2018 Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is approaching soon (November 1st)! See details here:
https://www.southernsociety.org/annual-meeting2
Month: October 2017
Call for Papers: Expanding Perception: The Role of Touch in Comparative Psychology, IJCP Special Issue
Call for Papers: Expanding Perception: The Role of Touch in Comparative Psychology, IJCP Special Issue In recent years, researchers have begun to include diverse modes of perception in an effort to understand cognitive and affective processes in various species. In this special issue, we are interested in an interdisciplinary account …
Symposium on Shea and Frith: “Dual-process theories and consciousness: the case for ‘Type Zero’ cognition”
I am thrilled to introduce our first symposium in a series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness, on Nicholas Shea and Chris Frith’s “Dual-process theories and consciousness: the case for ‘Type Zero’ cognition.” We have three excellent commentaries on the paper, by Jacob Berger, Nick Byrd, and Elizabeth Schechter, along …
A Note on Constitutive Relevance in Mechanisms
Carl Craver (Explaining the Brain, 2007) argues that what it is for an object doing X (micro variable) to be a working component of a mechanism doing Y (macro variable) is (i) for the former to be a part of the latter and (ii) for the two of them to …
What’s New and Upcoming at Brains
There is a lot of good news to share regarding new developments and upcoming events at the Brains blog. First, it is my pleasure to introduce two new Contributing Editors: Aaron Henry (Toronto) will organize our symposia on papers in the philosophy of mind from Ergo: An Open-Access Journal of Philosophy, …
CFA: Winter School on Bounded Rationality
TAPMI—MAX PLANCK–SOTON WINTER SCHOOL ON BOUNDED RATIONALITY January 08–14, 2018, Manipal (India) Call for Applications The T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung or MPIB) and the University of Southampton (Soton) Business School is organizing the Second Winter …
Introducing the Illusions Index
The following is a guest post by Fiona Macpherson and Umut Baysan, Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (www.gla.ac.uk/cspe/), University of Glasgow. The Illusions Index (www.illusionsindex.org/) is a fully searchable interactive curated collection of illusions. It consists of images (many of which are interactive), sounds, and videos, together with instructions …