Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 Conference April 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona – University Marriott Park Scientists, philosophers, researchers, scholars, artists and humanists are invited to the 20th Anniversary of the first Tucson conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” held in 1994. The 2014 conference will reflect on 20 years of progress, …
I’m very glad to be able to kick off this symposium on Paul M. Churchland’s Matter and Consciousness, recently reissued in a new (third) edition by the MIT Press. Below the fold is a brief introduction to the symposium, followed by essays from our three contributors, Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna), William Ramsey (UNLV), …
I’m pleased to be able to introduce Wayne Wu, currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, as this month’s featured scholar at Brains.
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As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 1, 2013. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
The following analysis was submitted by Brains reader Bruce Mayo, a retired computational linguist with some background in philosophy, in response to Kristina’s much-discussed post. Enjoy! Now that some of the dust has settled around Thomas Nagel’s recent book, Mind and Cosmos, it might be time to sort out the …
The following articles by Brains contributors were posted to PhilPapers in the past month. Please let me know of any oversights! — JS Robert Briscoe (forthcoming). On the Uses of Make-Perceive. In Fiona Macpherson & Fabian Dorsch (eds.), Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination (OUP). Robert Briscoe (forthcoming). Visual Experience, Informational …
