Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

Neuroethics is now accepting submissions.  (More information at Experimental Philosophy.)

2nd CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.
* The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is organising an international two-day conference, ‘e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies’ to be held in York on May 14th-15th 2008…

An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence.  This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do.  (A couple of quick …

A workshop on theory of mind just took place at USC.  The program webpage contains some links to recent work on the subject, including a review article on mirror neurons (published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience).

There are four articles about sleeping (1, 2, 3, 4) in today’s NY Times.

A student of mine found a bot that thinks it’s God.  You can chat with it here.  The conversation can be pretty funny at times.

In addition to Corey’s helpful post, here is some information on the workshop sent to me by Sarah Robins of Washington University in St. Louis:The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University inSt. Louis has compiled a set of online annotated bibliographies on theinterdisciplinary study of memory and language. The resource can …