We are grateful to Edouard Machery for blogging this week on Philosophy Within its Proper Bounds (Oxford, 2017). To view all his posts on a single page, please click here. And watch this space for updates on other upcoming events at Brains.
The editors of Neural Mechanisms Online announce the program for their 2018 webconference, on the topic of New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience. For more information, visit the conference program. Friday 5 October 2018 FROM … WHO? TITLE 8 GMT Hong Yu Wong Embodiment: Structure and Mechanisms 9 GMT …
CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of Open Philosophy “Computer Modeling in Philosophy” Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue “Computer Modeling in Philosophy,” edited by Patrick Grim (Stony Brook/University of Michigan). Computational modeling opens new prospects for philosophical exploration and argument. The role played by logic …
We are grateful to Edouard Machery for blogging this week on Philosophy Within its Proper Bounds (Oxford, 2017). To view all his posts on a single page, please click here. And watch this space for updates on other upcoming events at Brains.
Thanks to Paul Linton for blogging this week on The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space, published 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. To read all his posts on a single page, click here.
The Department of Philosophy at the Iona College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in philosophy, starting August 15, 2018. The teaching requirements associated with the position are various and include core courses in moral philosophy, but the department is particularly interested in candidates prepared to …
Neural Mechanisms Web Conference New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience October 5th, 10 – 18 (Greenwich Mean Time) In recent years, cognitive neuroscience has made several leaps forward: new discoveries have been made (e.g. the resting state networks or the increased scope of neural plasticity), prompting new questions; new …
Thanks to Carrie Figdor for blogging this week on Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates, forthcoming next month from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.
Thanks to Armin Schulz for blogging this week on Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making (MIT Press, 2018). To view his posts on a single page, please click here.
[The following is Part II in a two-part guest post by Will Bridewell and Alistair M. C. Isaac. — JS] Part 1 approached the problem of deception from a computational perspective, arguing that, in order to reason effectively about deception, an agent must be able to represent not only the …
[The following is Part I in a two-part guest post by Will Bridewell and Alistair M. C. Isaac. — JS] We live in an age of post-truth rhetoric, fake news, and misinformation; consequently, questions of how to accurately identify deceptive communication and to appropriately respond to it have become increasingly …
I am pleased to announce the content that will be featured at Brains in the coming weeks: From March 19-23, Armin Schulz will contribute a series of posts on Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision-Making, published earlier this year by The MIT Press. From March 26-30, Edouard Machery will contribute a series …
PhilMiLCog 2018 University of Western Ontario Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science Thursday June 14 to Saturday June 16 Stevenson Hall 3101 Keynote Speakers: Sebastian Watzl (Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo) Michael L. Anderson (Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science, Western University) Stefan …
[The following is a guest post by the organizers of Neural Mechanisms Online. — JS] Neural Mechanisms Online 2018 is a cycle of webinars (i.e. web seminars) on the philosophy of neuroscience. The speakers are several philosophers from all around the world, either junior or senior (see the calendar). The …
We are grateful to Susanna Schellenberg for blogging this week on her book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, forthcoming in July 2018 from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.
We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will take place on June 19 – 27, 2018, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. The Summer Institute brings together talented young researchers and renowned scientists from around the globe and aims to …
[The following is a guest post by Bob Lockie. — JS] He who says that all things happen of necessity can hardly find fault with one who denies that all happens by necessity; for on his own theory this very argument is voiced by necessity (Epicurus 1964: XL). Epicurus’s famous …
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Call For Symposia And Papers 1st Annual Meeting December 5-7, 2018 Sydney, Australia The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology invites proposals for symposia and papers for its first annual meeting, to be held in Sydney, 5-7 December 2018. Submissions are open to anyone with …
Many thanks to Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin for blogging this week on Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (MIT Press, 2017). To view all their posts on a single page, please click here.
We are grateful to Sebastian Watzl for blogging this week on Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and How it Shapes Consciousness (Oxford, 2017). To view all his posts on a single page, please click here.
The John Templeton Foundation invites applications for its Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program beginning November 30, 2017, with fellowships to begin Fall 2019. The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement …