We are grateful to Edouard Machery for blogging this week on Philosophy Within its Proper Bounds (Oxford, 2017). To view all his posts on a single page, please click here. And watch this space for updates on other upcoming events at Brains.
Author: John Schwenkler
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Thanks to Paul Linton for blogging this week on The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space, published 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. To read all his posts on a single page, click here.
T/T position in philosophy of mind at Iona College
The Department of Philosophy at the Iona College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in philosophy, starting August 15, 2018. The teaching requirements associated with the position are various and include core courses in moral philosophy, but the department is particularly interested in candidates prepared to …
CFP: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience
Neural Mechanisms Web Conference New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience October 5th, 10 – 18 (Greenwich Mean Time) In recent years, cognitive neuroscience has made several leaps forward: new discoveries have been made (e.g. the resting state networks or the increased scope of neural plasticity), prompting new questions; new …
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Thanks to Carrie Figdor for blogging this week on Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates, forthcoming next month from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.
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Thanks to Armin Schulz for blogging this week on Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making (MIT Press, 2018). To view his posts on a single page, please click here.
Reasoning About Deceit: 2. Political Discourse
[The following is Part II in a two-part guest post by Will Bridewell and Alistair M. C. Isaac. — JS] Part 1 approached the problem of deception from a computational perspective, arguing that, in order to reason effectively about deception, an agent must be able to represent not only the …