Please post and distribute widely; apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the third online consciousness conference. Invited speakers include, Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University Paul Churchland, University of California San Diego Steven Harnad, University of South Hampton Jesse Prinz, The Graduate Center, CUNY Papers in …
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Cross-Posted @ Philosophy Sucks! While I was perusing the new entries over at PhilPapers yesterday I came across Tom Polger‘s forthcoming paper inPhilosophical Psychology Are Sensations Still Brain Processes? The paper is very interesting (disclaimer: I have a special interest in this stuff; see for instance The Identity Theory in 2-D) and I thought I would …
In November 2009 the Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences at the University of Alabama Birmingham hosted a conference entitled Does Scientific Naturalism Exclude Metaphysics? The speakers were Michael Friedman, Andrew Melnyck, Ron Giere, Mark Wilson, Don Ross, Daniel Dennett, J T Ismael, James Ladyman, and Paul Humphries. The conference …
In an earlier post I outlined the case for qualia realism from the higher-order perspective as I see it.Dave Chalmers worried that one of the moves was too quick. The move in question is the move from concepts making a difference to phenomenal experience to their determining phenomenal experience. Basically the line I was pushing was that …
Any Brains readers in the New York area should consider themselves invited to the NYCC jam session on May 31st…for more info (and some fun videos and tunes) check out our facebook page….if you are in town come on down and have a drink with us or join in the …
I listened to the first lecture in David Chalmers’ Locke Lectures currently taking place at Oxford and I was intrigued by the argument he gave in defense of the claim that we can have a priori knowledge and do conceptual analysis even if we cannot give definitions of the concepts …
