John Schwenkler

Call for Papers: SPP 2020

John Schwenkler August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 CFPs

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 46th annual meeting to be held June 10-13 at Princeton University. June 10 will include a pre-conference workshop and an opening evening reception, with the main conference activities taking place on June 11-13.

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John Schwenkler August 12, 2019 August 20, 2019 books

We are pleased to have Christian List blogging this week on Why Free Will Is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019). To see all of Christian’s posts on a single page, please click here.

The Unclaimed Theory of Consciousness

John Schwenkler July 19, 2019 July 19, 2019 Consciousness

The following is a guest post by Brains blog reader Eric Lindell, whose paper “A Note on Active Panpsychism” was published recently in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Abstract: Maturana’s Biology of Cognition offers a theory of consciousness without claiming it as such. Instead, it claims only to have …

New OA Journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

John Schwenkler June 26, 2019 November 26, 2022 Academia / open access

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is a new, peer-reviewed, independent, not-for-profit, entirely open-access journal that “focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience”. Its editors-in-chief are Sascha Benjamin Fink (Magdeburg), Wanja Wiese (Mainz), and Jennifer Windt (Monash).

The journal is now open for submissions.

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John Schwenkler June 16, 2019 June 26, 2019 books

Thanks to Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein for blogging this week on Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View (Routledge, 2019). To view all their posts on a single page, please click here.

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John Schwenkler June 10, 2019 June 16, 2019 books

We are pleased to have Axel Seeman blogging this week on The Shared World: Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Space, recently published by The MIT Press. To view all his posts on a single page, please click here.

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John Schwenkler May 13, 2019 May 19, 2019 books

We are grateful to Kevin Connolly for blogging this week on Perceptual Learning: The Flexibility of the Senses (Oxford University Press, 2019). To view all of Kevin’s posts on a single page, please click here.