Prior to the upcoming meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, to be held June 2-4 at the University of Texas in Austin, there will be a pre-conference workshop on Transformative Experience and the Self: The workshop brings together leading psychologists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers exploring the nature of …
J.C. Berendzen at Loyola University in New Orleans writes: It is with great sadness that I report the death of our colleague and friend Jon Altschul. Jon was a recently tenured member of the Loyola New Orleans Philosophy Department, a philosopher of mind, and epistemologist. Among other topics, he worked …
Dr. Young’s research explores the neural and cognitive underpinnings of moral judgment and social cognition. For more on the SPP’s Stanton Prize, including a list of past winners, see https://www.socphilpsych.org/prizes.html.
As I discussed earlier, two faculty members at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland were fired earlier this week for “disloyalty” to the institution. For the latest on this story, use the Google. Nearly 8,000 academics have signed a statement of protest calling for the faculty to be reinstated. What’s needed now are …
Many of you know that I taught for several years at Mount St. Mary’s University, where Thane Naberhaus, a (tenured) professor of philosophy, was abruptly fired yesterday afternoon for his role in opposing a plan to dismiss at-risk freshmen in their first semester of college. For more on the story, …
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 …
