2019 — The Brains Blog

The Mental Lives of Zombies

Declan Smithies September 9, 2019 September 4, 2019 Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Thanks to John Schwenkler for hosting me. Today, I’ll start by situating the project of the book within a broader landscape in the philosophy of mind. What is the role of phenomenal …

CFP: Philosophy of Memory Essay Prize

John Schwenkler September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 CFPs / Memory

The Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes is pleased to invite submissions for an essay prize on the theme of philosophy of memory. The winning essay will be published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. The winner will be awarded a budget of up to 3000 …

CFP: SSPP 2020

John Schwenkler September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 CFPs

The 112th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in Louisville, KY from March 12-14, 2020. The deadline for submissions is September 15. For further details, see https://tinyurl.com/y6bm9g5x.

CFP: Neural Correlates of Consciousness

John Schwenkler September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 CFPs / Consciousness / Neuroscience / open access

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is inviting contributions to a celebratory volume on the neural correlates of consciousness. In 2000, MIT published „Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions“, edited by Thomas Metzinger. The volume brought together empirical neuroscientists, psychologists, anaesthesiologists, and philosophers, all participants at the 2nd ASSC meeting …

Call for Papers: SPP 2020

John Schwenkler August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 CFPs

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 46th annual meeting to be held June 10-13 at Princeton University. June 10 will include a pre-conference workshop and an opening evening reception, with the main conference activities taking place on June 11-13.

3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon

Christian List August 16, 2019 August 16, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is level-specific.

2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument

Christian List August 14, 2019 August 13, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.