John Schwenkler

Reasoning About Deceit: 1. The Computational Perspective

John Schwenkler March 15, 2018 March 15, 2018 AI / computation AI

[The following is Part I in a two-part guest post by Will Bridewell and Alistair M. C. Isaac. — JS] We live in an age of post-truth rhetoric, fake news, and misinformation; consequently, questions of how to accurately identify deceptive communication and to appropriately respond to it have become increasingly …

Upcoming Events at the Brains Blog

John Schwenkler March 12, 2018 March 12, 2018 Events

I am pleased to announce the content that will be featured at Brains in the coming weeks: From March 19-23, Armin Schulz will contribute a series of posts on Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision-Making, published earlier this year by The MIT Press. From March 26-30, Edouard Machery will contribute a series …

CFP: PhilMiLCog 2018

John Schwenkler March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 CFPs

PhilMiLCog 2018 University of Western Ontario Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science Thursday June 14 to Saturday June 16 Stevenson Hall 3101 Keynote Speakers: Sebastian Watzl (Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo) Michael L. Anderson (Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science, Western University) Stefan …

Neural Mechanisms Online 2018: An Interim Report — and call for discussants

John Schwenkler March 6, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / Neuroscience

[The following is a guest post by the organizers of Neural Mechanisms Online. — JS] Neural Mechanisms Online 2018 is a cycle of webinars (i.e. web seminars) on the philosophy of neuroscience. The speakers are several philosophers from all around the world, either junior or senior (see the calendar). The …

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John Schwenkler March 5, 2018 March 11, 2018 books

We are grateful to Susanna Schellenberg for blogging this week on her book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, forthcoming in July 2018 from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.

2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality

John Schwenkler February 13, 2018 February 13, 2018 CFPs

We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will take place on June 19 – 27, 2018, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. The Summer Institute brings together talented young researchers and renowned scientists from around the globe and aims to …

How could we rationally suppose that we lack free will?

John Schwenkler February 12, 2018 February 12, 2018 books / Epistemology / Ethics / Free will / Philosophy of Mind

[The following is a guest post by Bob Lockie. — JS] He who says that all things happen of necessity can hardly find fault with one who denies that all happens by necessity; for on his own theory this very argument is voiced by necessity (Epicurus 1964: XL). Epicurus’s famous …