Philosophers’ Carnival #171
… is at Nick Byrd’s blog.
Author: John Schwenkler
CFP: Philosophical Analysis and Experimental Philosophy
Call for Papers, special issue of Discipline filosofiche Philosophical Analysis and Experimental Philosophy https://www.disciplinefilosofiche.it/?lang=en Over the last decades, a renewed interest for metaphilosophical issues has prompted many philosophers in the analytic tradition to ask questions on the epistemic status and the methodology of philosophical inquiry. Reflection has focussed especially on …
CFP: Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers 2015
The Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers 2015 will be held in Montréal, Québec, on April 17th, 2015 at Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Quebec. This one-day international conference is aimed at young researchers, trainees, and students from all fields interested in neuroethics. In addition to the …
Upcoming events at the Brains blog
Here’s what we have planned for the next two months at the Brains blog: Matthew Fulkerson (UCSD) will blog about his work, including his book The First Sense (MIT Press, 2014), beginning January 20. Brie Giertler (Virginia) will blog about her work on self-knowledge, consciousness, and more, beginning around February 1. And our …
Happy New Year from the Brains Blog!
I’m very glad to say that 2014 has been our best year ever at the Brains blog, with over 93,000 total visits, including consecutive months of 10,000+ each from October through December. Josh Knobe’s self-fulfilling post on the increased importance of experimental findings in recent philosophy of mind was the year’s …
CFP: Consciousness and Inner Awareness
CALL FOR PAPERS Consciousness and Inner Awareness Special Issue of The Review of Philosophy and Psychology It is generally agreed that consciousness provides subjects with an ‘outer awareness’ of their environment. More controversial is the claim that consciousness also provides subjects with an ‘inner awareness’ of their own conscious experience. …
A few links
IAI.tv has published a debate between Jennifer Hornsby, Patrick Haggard, and George Ellis on the neuroscience of free will. The most recent issue of Abstracta, an open-access journal of philosophy published by Düsseldorf University Press, is now available. The New York Times has a lengthy review of Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, …