Author: John Schwenkler

By Brandon Towl Being a newly minted (and still jobless) PhD, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about projects I want to tackle in the next five years or so.  One idea was to write something– either a few papers or perhaps a book– on interesting puzzles or problems in …

Only three more weeks left to submit a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference. For details see the conference website.

By Adam Leonard The ability of fMRI scans to detect which modules of the brain are active during cognitive processes provides a crude, but nonetheless revealing window into how we “think”: it allows testing whether some of our gross assumptions are true or not. For example, a widely referenced July …

By Adam Leonard Michael S. Gazzaniga is a pioneering neuroscientist in split-brain research who is currently Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books for non-scientists, from /The Social Brain/ (1985) to /The Ethical Brain/ (2006), have allowed …

In-Mind is an online magazine about social cognition.  On their Videos page, they have digged out an awesome video of Asch’s classical experiments on peer pressure, in which people end up denying what they see to conform.  Definitely worth five minutes of your time.

By Brandon Towl I recently had the idea of putting together a blog that would act as a single resource for philosophy conferences and calls for papers… that is, until I found out that somebody else already did it. Although this blog does not list all conferences of interest, it …