The optician Jon Munro sent along this terrific animated graphic with examples of optical illusions throughout history, and asked me to share it with our readers. You can click on the image to enlarge it. I think it’s great!
The month of June is likely to be relatively quiet at Brains, though we will host our first Ergo symposium, on Bernard Molyneux’s “The Logic of Mind-Body Identification” with commentaries by István Aranyosi, Liz Irvine, and Jonathan Simon, shortly after the paper appears online, which should be pretty soon. We are also …
The Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA) at Florida State University is now accepting paper submissions for its fourth annual graduate conference on free will, moral responsibility, and agency. The conference will take place at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida on Friday and Saturday, September 18‐19, 2015. This year’s keynote …
In the coming weeks we are excited to be hosting our next Mind & Language symposium, on Jean-Rémy Martin and François Le Corre’s “Sensory Substitution is Substitution”, as well as several authors who will write about their recently published books: Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian, on Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention, new from …
CFP: Workshop “Collective Self-Awareness” September 10-12, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna Submission deadline: May 3 There has been a growing philosophical interest in Collective Intentionality in recent decades, but the topic of collective self-awareness is still in its infancy. How do we experience ourselves as acting and perceiving jointly? …
Michael Brownstein has written a very thorough post at the Feminist Philosophers blog discussing a widely publicized study by Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci that’s supposed to show that women are favored over men in academic hiring. Here is Michael’s summary of his argument: (a) participants in W&C’s study know that this is …
The 41st annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina from June 4-6, 2015, with a pre-conference workshop, welcome reception, and poster session on Wednesday, June 3. Registration is now open at the SPP website. The program is not yet …
