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, …
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 …
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 …
Consider the following: Obviously this is bad science and even worse scientific reporting, but what can be done to combat it? More generally, what should be the scholarly response to the growing sense, among scientific researchers and the lay public alike, that scientific publications are not trustworthy — that …
Consciousness Research Network (CoRN) Meeting 2017 November 3-5, 2017 National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan The focus of the meeting is to connect researchers in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, medical science, biology, robotics and related disciplines in order to deepen our understanding of the nature of consciousness. In the meeting, participants will …
[[This is a guest post by Matt Faw, a filmmaker who together with Bill Faw is the author of a recent paper in WIREs Cognitive Science, “Neurotypical subjective experience is caused by a hippocampal simulation”. The post is a précis of their article.]] Consciousness. One of the problems in finding its neural …
The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of Florida State University is now accepting submissions for their Sixth Annual Graduate Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency. The conference will take place on October 6th and 7th, 2017. Keynote speakers will be: David Shoemaker, Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University Michael McKenna, …
