Some readers of Brains might be interested by the recently created Experimental Philosophy Society. Our goal is, broadly speaking, to promote the use of experimental methods within philosophy. You can join the society for a modest fee. We plan to use these fees to organize meetings at the APAs (Eastern, …
** Post-doc proposal : Program « Cognitive Origins of Vagueness », Institut Jean-Nicod ** Job description : Institut Jean-Nicod (EHESS/ENS/CNRS, Paris) is seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher for 12 months as part of the ANR research project « Cognitive Origins of Vagueness », conducted by Paul Égré. The position is to start September …
Two post-docs of interest for the readers of this blog: 1. 2-year posdoctoral fellowship in the philosophy of cognitive science at Oxford (starting Oct 2009, deadline: March 6). Information here. 2. 2-year postdoctoal fellowship at the Institut Jean-Nicod (starting Oct 2009, deadline: Aoril 10). The applicant’s research area should be …
The program of the Conciousness Online Conference organized by Richard Brown has been finalized. See it there. Do not miss Richard’s presentation of the conference! Thanks for all this work. Edouard
My book, Doing without Concepts, is now out! You can get it from the Oxford University Press website or from Amazon (where it is not yet in stock). Most of you know know the take-home message of the book: The notion of concept should be eliminated from the theoretical vocabulary …
The dissociations that result from developmental psychopathologies (Down syndrome, etc.) have been one of the main sources of evidence for breaking up the mind into pieces – that is, for identifying the components of the typical cognitive architecture. But is this practice justified? Do these dissociations really provide evidence about …
This NEH Institute might be of interest to some readers of Brains: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in …
