NY Times: “Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain”

No word yet on possible funding for philosophers: The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics. The project, which …

CFP: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 21st Annual Conference

Grenada, Spain 9th-12th July, 2013 Deadline for Submissions: 15 March 2013 Keynote speakers: Katherine Nelson (CUNY) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) Michael Martin (UCL/Berkeley) Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) There will be five invited symposia on the following topics:

CALL FOR PAPERS, 2nd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING

CALL FOR PAPERS, 2nd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING (HaPoC 2013) 28th – 31st October 2013 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. with a special session on “Computing and the Arts” at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs https://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org We are happy to announce that the 2nd International …

METAPHYSICS AND MIND NEH Summer Seminar

I did this years ago and found it very beneficial, so I recommend it to junior philosophers out there: NEH Summer Seminar10 June-12 July 2013Washington University in St Louis Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical issues that arise in the philosophy of mind. Early …

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