John Schwenkler

Upcoming Events at the Brains Blog

John Schwenkler January 2, 2019 January 7, 2019 Events

I am very pleased to announce a number of events that will take place on the Brains blog in early 2019: January 7-11: Roundtable discussion on weakness of will, organized by Julia Haas, with contributions from Nora Heinzelmann, Agnes Moors, Neil Levy, Chandra Sripada, and Zina Ward. January 14-18: Featured Author: Shannon Spaulding on How …

CFP: Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science (Bochum)

John Schwenkler January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 CFPs

Call for Papers: Second Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science Date: June 13th – June 14th, 2019 Location: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Submission deadline: March 17th, 2019 Keynote speakers: Onur Güntürkün and Rebekka Hufendiek This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind …

CFP: Pluralistic Approaches to Folk Psychology

John Schwenkler December 14, 2018 December 14, 2018 CFPs / Folk Psychology

Special Issue of Synthese: “Folk Psychology: Pluralistic Approaches” Volume editors: Evan Westra (Toronto), Kristin Andrews (York), and Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State). Deadline: May 15th, 2019. Traditionally, ‘folk psychology’ has been understood to mean the ordinary practice of predicting, explaining, and interpreting behavior through attributions of beliefs, desires, and other propositional attitudes. …

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John Schwenkler September 30, 2018 October 8, 2018 books

We are grateful to Elizabeth Schechter for blogging this week on Self-Consciousness and ‘Split’ Brains (Oxford, 2018). To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.

List of Underrepresented Philosophers of Neuroscience

John Schwenkler September 26, 2018 September 26, 2018 Academia / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science

There is a new list of members of underrepresented groups working in philosophy of neuroscience (e.g., traditional philosophy of science topics in neuroscience, foundational issues in cognitive, computational, systems, molecular, and cellular neuroscience). The purpose of this list is to provide as comprehensive a list as possible of members of underrepresented …

Neural Mechanisms Webconference 2018: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience

John Schwenkler September 26, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / NM Webconference

The editors of Neural Mechanisms Online announce the program for their 2018 webconference, on the topic of New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience. For more information, visit the conference program. Friday 5 October 2018 FROM … WHO? TITLE 8 GMT Hong Yu Wong Embodiment: Structure and Mechanisms 9 GMT …

CFP: Computer Modeling in Philosophy

John Schwenkler September 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 CFPs

CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of Open Philosophy “Computer Modeling in Philosophy” Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue “Computer Modeling in Philosophy,” edited by Patrick Grim (Stony Brook/University of Michigan). Computational modeling opens new prospects for philosophical exploration and argument. The role played by logic …