A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind led by John Heil, 10 June – 12 July 2013. Visiting faculty will include E. J. Lowe, Graham Oddie and Alyssa Ney. Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical …
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013 Venue: The British Academy,10-11 Carlton House Terrace,London SW1Y 5AHTuesday 26 March 2013, 9am – 5.30pm Wednesday 27 March 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm Thursday 28 March 2013, 9.30am – 1.00pm In addition: special demonstration of sensory substitution and augmentation devices on …
Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology, Sheffield: April 20-21, 2013 Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2012 The Leverhulme-funded Implicit Bias and Philosophy Project (www.biasproject.org) announces its fourth and final event, a conference on Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology. Authors of accepted papers will have the costs of their conference attendance (including …
Earlier this year, Carolyn, Brit and I compiled a list of women working in the philosophy of mind and related fields (including some areas of psychology, and related issues in the history of philosophy). As I explained at the time, the purpose of the list is to help counter the …
Inspired by Trent Dougherty’s efforts at Certain Doubts to compile a list of women working in epistemology, Carolyn, Brit, and I have spent some time doing the same for the philosophy of mind. Let me quote Trent’s justification for such a project: I suspect that one of the most common …
From the work of Hannah Riley Bowles and Linda Babcock, the former of whom headlined a workshop at the Cognitive Science Society this past summer on the topic (https://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/uploads/2011-w6.pdf): “Perhaps, the most direct contribution of this research is to the study of the compensation negotiation dilemma for women. This research adds …
As reported on UCL News, “UCL reports with great sadness the death on 28 November of Jon Driver, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and one of the world’s leading psychologists and neuroscientists. Professor Jon Driver Professor Driver was formerly Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and …
