The deadline is Dec 5th! Note the updated special sessions! I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. the Invited Program includes, Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and …
Cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks! So much has been going on in nyc that I have had trouble keeping up with it. However I have a bit of free time today and wanted to jot down a few notes about Sid Kouider’s recent presentation at the CUNY CogSci Colloquium. Sid was …
Congratulations are in order for Brainer John Schwenkler, whose post Has Molyneux’s Question Been Answered? took Strange Quark (second place) in the Three Quarks Daily blog contest! Congratulations John!
From over at the Smoker I learn that David Morrow and Chris Sula have started a Jobs Board to ‘supplement’ that of the apa. Please spread the word!
I just re-read Karen Bennett’s paper Exclusion, Again. In this paper she argues that causal exclusion arguments provide a nice overall argument for physicalism but do not cut against non-reductive physicalism as usually thought. Here is how she defines non-reductive physicalism. Let us begin with the ‘physicalism’ part. It is …
So I am finally done teaching summer school and am ready to settle in to my two weeks of ‘vacation’ before the Fall semester begins. Just as I am about to switch on the PS3 I am struck by the following line of argument…let me know what you think of …
The head of the philosophy program at LaGuardia, John Chaffee, is the author of an introductory text book The Philosopher’s Way. The book is entering its fourth edition and John is updating the chapter on the self and consciousness. In particular he is updating the section on Paul Churchland’s eliminative materialism …
