For further details, see the institute’s Web site: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/neh_perception/home The Topic: To philosophers, one of the most important divisions in the human mind is between perception and reasoning. We reason from information that we take ourselves to have already, and often our reasoning is unconscious. In contrast, perception is a means of …
Congratulations are due to long-time Brains blog contributor Marcin Milkowski, who was awarded the 2015 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Marcin is associate professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a …
This looks like a terrific program (note that it is only for the recently tenured): The John Templeton Foundation invites applications for its Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program beginning November 9, 2015, with fellowships to begin Fall 2017. The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and …
The George Washington University Department of Philosophy is very happy to announce its new M.A. in Philosophy. This new graduate program complements our longstanding and highly successful M.A. in Philosophy and Social Policy. The GW Department of Philosophy’s pluralist faculty spans both analytic and continental traditions, and the new M.A. …
That’s the question Cameron Buckner, Nick Byrd, and I raise in a guest post written for Daily Nous. We hope you will read our post and join the discussion, especially of the following questions — you can answer them in the comments here or there, or privately via e-mail: In Minds Online, …
The eleventh KNEW workshop will take place in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, in August, 10th to 14th. The topic for this year’s workshop is Placing Art and Music in Nature. Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of …
Michael Brownstein has written a very thorough post at the Feminist Philosophers blog discussing a widely publicized study by Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci that’s supposed to show that women are favored over men in academic hiring. Here is Michael’s summary of his argument: (a) participants in W&C’s study know that this is …
