Philosophers’ Carnival #162
… at Aesthetics for Birds, with lots of really excellent content this month.
Author: John Schwenkler
Moscow Summer School on Free Will
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) is hosting a Summer School from the 11th to the 25th of August 2014 devoted to the Free Will problem led by the world renowned expert Prof. John Martin Fischer. Graduate students and young PhDs are welcome to take part in the “Free Will and …
Recent work by Brains contributors
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in March. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS J. Robert Thompson (2014). Signature Limits in Mindreading Systems. Cognitive Science 38 (2). Kristina Musholt & Eileen Munro (forthcoming). Neuroscience and the Risks of Maltreatment. Children and Youth Services Review. E. Machery (forthcoming). Review of Words and Thoughts: …
“Thinking the Unthinkable”
Another discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas, featuring Simon Saunders, Mark Rowlands, and Hannah Dawson: Watch more videos on iai.tv
Recent Work by Brains Contributors
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in February. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Berit Brogaard (forthcoming). An Empirically-Informed Cognitive Theory of Propositions. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard, Eddy Nahmias, Chandra Sripada & Lisa Ross (2014). The Free Will Inventory: Measuring Beliefs About Agency and Responsibility. Consciousness and Cognition 25:27-41. …
On being conscious to yourself
Another guest post by Bill Skaggs, whose earlier contribution generated some nice discussion. – JS *** Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting aspect of the etymology that …
CFA: Conference on Free Will at UM-Flint
“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” — Martin Luther “[M]en believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza We have an intuitive …