Discussing Richard Nisbett’s Thinking: A Memoir — X-Phi, Culture, Introspection, IQ, Guns, Class, and Academia

You have surely heard about cultural differences in reasoning, how people can fabricate reasons when asked to explain one of their decisions, and how many people seem systematically susceptible to reasoning errors. Much of this research was contributed by Richard Nisbett and their colleagues. Dr. Nisbett was kind enough to …

Call for Papers: The Affective Turn in Cognitive Science

Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm conference 2022 June 22-24, 2022 – University of Parma  Overview The 2022 Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm Conference will be held at the University of Parma on June 22-24 and will be hosted by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and …

Call for Papers: SPP/ESPP (Milan, July 2022)

The program is now available. See also espp-spp-2022.com/program. The 3rd Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and European Society for Philosophy and Psychology invite submissions of papers, symposia and posters for the 3rd joint meeting of the SPP and ESPP, to be held 19-22 July 2022 in …

AISC 2021 17th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences – Submissions and Registration Open

13-15 Dec 2021 Noto (Italy) New extended submission deadline: September 30th, 2021 Theme: Post-Neuroscience Times for Cognitive Science Circa 2021? The relative contribution to cognitive science from its six constituent traditional disciplines (anthropology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology) has never been uniform.  This is, in part, due to the continous …

Unthinkable Pasts and Undreamable Futures: A Role of History for Scientists

I am not a historian. This thought did not occur to me when I set out three years ago to write a book about my field of computational neuroscience, but it has occurred to me many times since. I knew I wanted the book be more than just be a …

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