By Benj Hellie Brains readers: sup. Lovely to be here — thanks to Gualtiero for signing me up. I’ll kick off my tenure here with the fifty cent tour of a paper I’m working on as part of work on my book MS, Conscious Life. Title: ‘Experience as action’. Thesis: …
By Jim Virtel Vincent Müller’s useful job posting site “Jobs in Philosophy” has changed its URL to https://www.jobsinphilosophy.org/. The site lists available philosophy positions on six continents and links to other philosophy job posting sites here.
By Jim Virtel 3226 people completed PhilPapers’ Philosophical Survey and 727 people completed the Philosophical Metasurvey. The preliminary results of the survey and metasurvey are already posted. More results, such as geographical effects, will be posted later. You may also contribute to the discussion forum here.
By Jim Virtel The University of Pennsylvania is holding its second Neuroethics Boot Camp from August 1 – 11, 2010. All interested graduate students, professional students, university faculty, and working professionals are encouraged to apply regardless of science background. Applications are due February 1, 2010. Here’s more information from …
By Jim Virtel GQ published an article describing the NFL’s reluctance to acknowledge Dr. Bennet Omalu’s discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in former NFL players who were originally diagnosed with dementia pugilistica. After Omalu published his results multiple times, the NFL refused to accept his work because Omalu knew …
By Jim Virtel The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation would like your ideas to help people affected by mental illness. They’re offering a substantial monetary prize for the best idea. Anisha Imhoff-Kerr’s message is below: For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a …
By Jim Virtel Edouard Machery’s Doing Without Concepts boldly argues for the elimination of the term “concept” from psychological literature. His argument runs as follows: individuals possess many different kinds of concepts which have very few properties in common. These concepts are used in distinct cognitive processes, so the term …
