Conference Announcement and 1st Call for Papers: MINDS, BODIES, AND PROBLEMS

A philosophy of mind conference hosted by Bilkent University, Ankara, 7-8 June, 2012.   High-quality submissions are invited on the many aspects of the mind-body problem.   Some suggested topics include: naturalistic/physicalistic reduction of intentionality and/or phenomenal consciousness, the potential constitutive role of the body in mental states, the extended …

Postdoc position at UMSL

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO.  Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters (pending administrative approval), Department of Philosophy.  Begins Spring Semester (January 15) 2012 or later.  AOS: philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and computing.  AOC: open.  The postdoctoral fellow will work …

Call for Proposals: Content and Consciousness 2.0. Four Decades After.

Content and Consciousness 2.0. Four Decades After. Book Proposal, to be submitted to the Studies in Brain and Mind Series (Springer). In Content and Consciousness (1969) Daniel Dennett introduced some pillars of his influential work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of evolution and cognitive science. This book promoted some notable …

Forthcoming Synthese issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy

As I previously discussed, the journal Synthese publishes a yearly issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. In recent years, this has been perhaps the highest profile venue explicitly devoted to articles in the philosophy of neuroscience. For the first seven years or so, the editor of this Synthese special issue …

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