I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fifth Online Consciousness Conference, which is scheduled for February 15-March 1, 2013. Invited talk by Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University Special Session on Self-Consciousness organized by John Schwenkler, Mount St. Mary’s University. Invited participants include Katja Crone and Joel …
[cross posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Well it has been a month since I gave my talk at the Graduate Center. I have been meaning to write something on this, but have been swamped with the beginning of the semester. I will try to reconstruct some of the discussion, as I …
As we head back to our office hours I thought I might put together a list of the 15 most viewed posts of all time at Brains. 1. Consciousness and the Brainstem 2. On Publishing While in Grad School 3. European Journal Rankings (ERIH) 4. On Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] The fall semester is set to kick off, and I am very excited about it. I am giving the first talk in the CUNY Philosophy Colloquium tomorrow September 5th. It is entitled “The Nature of Phenomenal Consciousness”. I haven’t recorded a practice run yet, but this …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Looking ahead to CO5, Daniel Dennett has agreed to give the keynote talk which is very exciting! There may be other surprises to come, so stay tuned! Stevan Harnad has allowed me to upload the videos of talks from his Turing Consciousness 2012 conference to my …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing. Saturday June 23rd is the actual centenary. That weekend also happens to be pride week in nyc. Given this line up of the Celestial Signs, The New York Consciousness Collective invites you to the Lower East …
Very happy to say that Hakwan Lau and I have completed our jointly authored paper The Emperor’s New Phenomenology?: The Empirical Case for Conscious Experiences without First-Order Representations which is forthcoming in a Festschrift for Ned Block edited by Adam Pautz and Daniel Stoljar (MIT Press). The book is slated to have a response …
