I am very pleased to welcome several new contributors to “Brains”: Kristina Musholt is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. She has published papers on self-consciousness and the relationships between conceptual and non-conceptual forms of representation. Miguel Angel Sebastián …
Via Brian Leiter, this post by Paul Thagard criticizes what he claims are eleven “dogmas” of “analytic philosophy”, which he describes as the attempt “to use the study of language and logic to analyze concepts that are important for the study of knowledge (epistemology), reality (metaphysics), and morality (ethics)”. Against …
A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind led by John Heil, 10 June – 12 July 2013. Visiting faculty will include E. J. Lowe, Graham Oddie and Alyssa Ney. Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical …
I’m glad to announce that Robert Briscoe and Myrto Mylopoulos are the newest contributors to Brains. For those of you who don’t know their work (and you should!), Myrto is a Ph.D. candidate at CUNY doing important work on the relationship between action and consciousness, and Robert is Associate Professor …
Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology, Sheffield: April 20-21, 2013 Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2012 The Leverhulme-funded Implicit Bias and Philosophy Project (www.biasproject.org) announces its fourth and final event, a conference on Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology. Authors of accepted papers will have the costs of their conference attendance (including …
Earlier this year, Carolyn, Brit and I compiled a list of women working in the philosophy of mind and related fields (including some areas of psychology, and related issues in the history of philosophy). As I explained at the time, the purpose of the list is to help counter the …
Robert Briscoe and I have been working for quite some time on a paper that synthesizes work that the two of us had been doing independently concerning the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis. Each of us is concerned (albeit with somewhat different motivations) to defend the idea that conscious visual awareness …
