PhD position ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’ Faculty of Social Sciences Vacancy number: 24.21.13 Closing date: 14 July 2013 This PhD project aims to advance our understanding of the computational foundations of probabilistic inference and learning in the brain. According to current theory, even only approximately computing probabilistic …
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be holding its annual meeting June 12-15 at Brown University, Providence, R.I. Early registration has been extended to June 2. Please see the society’s website, www.socphilpsych.org, for the program and other details. Speakers include Daniel Dennett, Susan Fiske, Sandra Upson (managing editor, Scientific …
North Carolina State University’s Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative (LACSI) is hosting a conference on Concepts on September 20-21, 2013. The speakers are Christopher Hill (Philosophy, Brown University), Edouard Machery (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh), Eric Margolis (Philosophy, University of British Columbia), Gregory Murphy (Psychology, New York …
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Grenada, Spain 9th-12th July, 2013 Deadline for Submissions: 15 March 2013 Keynote speakers: Katherine Nelson (CUNY) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) Michael Martin (UCL/Berkeley) Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) There will be five invited symposia on the following topics:
It is our pleasure to announce the 6th Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium (SPE6), which this year will take place in St Petersburg during the White Nights. Place: Bobrinsky Palace, Smolny College, St Petersburg Time: June 10-14, 2013 INVITED SPEAKERS GNENERAL SESSION: Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, …
Georgetown University Philosophy Conference 2013 Reasons and Reasoning April 20, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh) Inquiry into reasons and reasoning has long occupied a central place in the major philosophical disciplines. From logic and ethics to epistemology and the history of philosophy, some of our discipline’s most creative and innovative work concerns practical …
