Or something like that: Changing someone’s opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone’s opinions are formed and whether and how someone’s views shift. Fortunately, ChangeMyView, an active community on Reddit, provides …
I am very pleased to say that after a rather quiet start to 2016 we have a lot of interesting content lined up for the next few months at Brains. In April we will host our next two journal symposia: From April 6-10, on Kevin Tobia‘s “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, …
Prior to the upcoming meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, to be held June 2-4 at the University of Texas in Austin, there will be a pre-conference workshop on Transformative Experience and the Self: The workshop brings together leading psychologists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers exploring the nature of …
The journal Philosophical Explorations has inaugurated an annual essay prize for philosophers in the early stages of their career. Papers are invited on all aspects of the philosophy of mind and action. They should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the …
Open Mind provides a new venue for work in cognitive science, offering open access publishing, concise and accessible articles, and quick turnaround times for authors. The journal covers the broad array of content areas within cognitive science using approaches from cognitive psychology, computer science and mathematical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and …
That’s the question asked in an interesting post at the OUP Blog by Nicola Lacey (LSE) and Hannah Pickard (Birmingham). They write: What would the shape of penal philosophy and criminal justice practice be like with forgiveness in place as a guiding ideal? We think that it is possible to …
The 20th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from June 15-18, 2016. Abstract submissions are open until March 30.
