John Schwenkler

CFP: The Philosophical Significance of Molyneux’s Question

John Schwenkler November 29, 2016 December 2, 2016 CFPs / Consciousness / perception

CFP: The Philosophical Significance of Molyneux’s Question University of York, UK June 5-6, 2017 Funded by a grant from the New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project (https://www.newdirectionsproject.com/) to Louise Richardson and John Schwenkler Confirmed speakers:: Mohan Matthen, L. A. Paul, M. G. F. Martin With responses from members of Sense …

CFP: Themes in Transformative Experience

John Schwenkler November 21, 2016 November 21, 2016 CFPs / Consciousness / Ethics

Themes in Transformative Experience: metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind Pre conference of the 2017 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Seattle, WA April 11th, 2017 The Seattle Westin Transformative experience connects to a wide range of philosophical topics. An experience can be epistemically transformative by teaching …

“Perhaps the most dramatic, irresoluble clash in the whole of philosophy …”

John Schwenkler November 7, 2016 November 7, 2016 Free will / Uncategorized

Many readers will likely be interested in this new documentary featuring the work of the Big Questions in Free Will project, from the series Closer to Truth:

IAI @philofbrains: “After the End of Truth”

John Schwenkler November 4, 2016 November 4, 2016 Podcast / Uncategorized

A generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to distrust claims to objective truth. Yet the mantra that ‘there is no truth’ is a paradox. Do we need a new conception of fantasy and reality to free us from the tyranny of truthmakers and the paradoxes of postmodernists alike?

Philosopher John Searle, post-postmodernist Hilary Lawson, and Historian of Ideas at Kings College London Hannah Dawson untangle the truth.

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This video was produced by The Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission. It was filmed at HowTheLightGetsIn 2015 alongside 200 other debates and talks, all available for free at IAI TV. Their new podcast, Philosophy for our times, is available here.

Call for Abstracts: TSC 2017 (Shanghai)

John Schwenkler November 4, 2016 November 4, 2016 CFPs / Consciousness

The next ‘TSC’, the Science of Consciousness will take place June 6-9, 2017 in Shanghai.

Abstract submission is open November 3 to December 20, 2016.

For details and to submit abstracts, visit https://eagle.sbs.arizona.edu/sc/.

Aristotle was wrong …

John Schwenkler November 2, 2016 November 2, 2016 perception / Symposia

… about the number of our senses, according to Barry C. Smith in this new video from Aeon. For a dissenting view with lots of ensuing discussion, look back to our inaugural Mind & Language symposium, on Louise Richardson’s “Flavour, Taste, and Smell”.

Applications are open for the 2017 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy

John Schwenkler November 2, 2016 November 2, 2016 Consciousness / Free will / Memory / Neuroscience / perception / Philosophy of Mind

Calling all curious neuroscientists and philosophers! Collaborate in the summer seminars for neuroscience and philosophy, a three year program sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and Duke University. Our goal is to advance knowledge at the intersection of these fields. Together we can apply cutting-edge scientific research to the big questions on …