CFP: St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality

May 18 – 20, 2014 Moonrise Hotel in St. Louis, MO Keynote Speaker: John Broome (Oxford) St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an anonymized abstract of 750-1500 words by January 4, 2014 to SLACRR@gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please …

Philosophical Explorations Virtual Special Issue on Self-Knowledge

The editors of Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action have recently put together a virtual special issue of articles on self-knowledge published in the journal during its first 15 years. Included are papers by Lisa Bortolotti, Thor Grünbaum, Andy Hamilton, Cynthia Macdonald, Catriona Mackenzie, Johannes Roessler, and …

The Libet experiment as a refutation of dualism

The following analysis was submitted by Brains reader Bill Skaggs, a neuroscientist whose published work is in electrophysiology, but who has been working for some time on a book about the relationship between consciousness and the brain.  He blogs at https://weskaggs.net. — JS I would like to examine a famous set …

Interview with Brains contributor Susanna Schellenberg

… at 3:AM Magazine. An excerpt: 3:AM: I presume much of your work connects with other fields in psychology, cognitive science, perceptual science, biology and so on. Are you signed up to the inter-disciplinarian nature of philosophy and would you agree with the xphi crew that actually this is much closer to what …

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