By Jim Virtel After posting the first call on April 8th, Brains has not received many submissions for the next edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival on April 26th. We will accept submissions from all areas of philosophy, but will give preference to those in the field of philosophy of mind …
By Jim Virtel For the first time in its storied 4.5 year history, Brains will be hosting the Philosophers’ Carnival on Monday, April 26th! We will accept submissions in any area of philosophy but will give preference to posts concerning philosophy of mind broadly construed. The submission deadline is April …
By Brandon Towl I was hoping the readers of Brains could help me out with a paper suggestion: I am looking for a paper that would be a good example of a study from computational neuroscience and/or computer modeling in cognitive science. Something that shows the basics of the approach– …
By Kelly Trogdon Hello all, This is my first post here – thanks Gualtiero for inviting me. As I read Chalmers’ “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” (2002), he claims that a state of positive conceivability is positive in virtue of involving a “positive intuition” of a situation, and to have …
By Jim Virtel Brains has experienced tremendous growth over the past few months. First, welcome to the many new contributors. Second, the site averages over 200 unique visitors per day — triple the amount of traffic in September 2009. Thanks to all contributors, old and new, for increasing Brains’ popularity. …
By Janice Dowell Epistemic Modals April 16-18, 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE Speakers: Keith DeRose, “Accommodation and Epistemic Possibilities Nobody Knows to be False” Kai von Fintel and Thony Gillies, TBA Angelika Kratzer, “Epistemic Modals: Embedded, Modified, and Plain” John MacFarlane, TBA Robert Stalnaker, “‘If’s, ‘May’s, and ‘Might’s” Eric …
By Benj Hellie Special one time offer for Brains readers!!!!! People who have weighed in on my earlier post might be interested to check out the MS I’ve just wrapped up: here. Comments gratefully acknowledged.
