John Schwenkler

CFP: Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

John Schwenkler February 9, 2018 February 9, 2018 CFPs

Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Call For Symposia And Papers 1st Annual Meeting December 5-7, 2018 Sydney, Australia The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology invites proposals for symposia and papers for its first annual meeting, to be held in Sydney, 5-7 December 2018. Submissions are open to anyone with …

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John Schwenkler January 22, 2018 January 29, 2018 books

Many thanks to Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin for blogging this week on Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (MIT Press, 2017). To view all their posts on a single page, please click here.

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John Schwenkler January 15, 2018 January 29, 2018 books

We are grateful to Sebastian Watzl for blogging this week on Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and How it Shapes Consciousness (Oxford, 2017). To view all his posts on a single page, please click here.

RFP: Academic Cross Training Fellowships

John Schwenkler January 11, 2018 January 11, 2018 Academia

The John Templeton Foundation invites applications for its Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program beginning November 30, 2017, with fellowships to begin Fall 2019. The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement …

Neural Mechanisms Online

John Schwenkler January 10, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / Neuroscience / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Mind

We are very pleased to announce the beginning of Neural Mechanisms Online, i.e. the first international cycle of webinars (=online seminars) on the Philosophy of Neuroscience! The webinars will be held from January to July 2018, every two weeks (see the calendar below). They will deal with hot topics of …

A new action-based theory of spatial perception

John Schwenkler December 12, 2017 December 12, 2017 Neuroscience / perception

by Andrew Glennerster and James Stazicker (Psychology and Philosophy, University of Reading) In both the neuroscience and the philosophy of spatial perception, it is standard to assume that humans represent a perceived scene in either an egocentric or a world-based 3D coordinate frame, and a great deal of work in …

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John Schwenkler December 4, 2017 December 12, 2017 books

We are grateful to Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) for blogging this week on A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being, published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.