CFP: Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature
An interesting confrence on Church’s Thesis, with excellent speakers, takes place in Krakow, Poland, on June, 3-5. See the conference website.
Category: Academia
OCC Program Finalized
I am pleased to announce that the program for the third Online Consciousness Conference is finalized and is available at the conference website: https://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com/ The conference begins February 18th and lasts until March 4th. Papers (but not commentaries) will be available to read one week before the conference starts February 11th. …
Systematicity and the Post-Connectionist Era: Taking Stock of the Architecture Of Cognition
19-21 May 2011San Jose (Andalucia, Spain)2nd call for papersResearchers are invited to submit full papers or long abstracts for 40-minute presentations on conceptual, empirical or modeling issues that arise in the treatment of the systematicity challenge from post-connectionist approaches such as behavior-based AI, ecological psychology, embodied and distributed cognition, dynamical …
Call for Abstracts: Experimental Philosophy
Mark Phelan is organizing the second annual Experimental Philosophy Workshop in New York City, and the Call for Abstracts has just been posted. Abstracts are only 1,000 words and can present either experimental results or more theoretical work. The deadline is February 10th. The conference itself will take place on …
Job: Georgia State University
Brains readers may be interested in the following ad, which will appear in the JFP (though not, I think, in the October edition). GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia. Rank: Assistant Professor. AOS: Empirically-informed Philosophy of Mind. AOC: Open, but some preference for Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, or Philosophy of …
On Refereeing Journal Articles
Here is a nice article on how to write good referee reports on journal articles. The article is by Henry Roediger, a distinguished psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis (thanks to his colleague Jeff Zacks for the pointer), so it focuses on psychology. But mutatis mutandis virtually all of …
Do Philosophers Rank their Journals?
A while ago Mark Couch alerted me to an article by Jeffrey Di Leo in Inside Higher Ed. Di Leo’s thesis is this: “It is one sign of the good health of the humanities that they have not caught rank and brand fever like many of the other disciplines in …