Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (November 26, 2009) a one-day conference hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, organized by Sven Walter. Speakers include: Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana) Miriam Kyselo (University of Osnabrueck) Holger Lyre (University of Bielefeld) Robert Rupert (University of Colorado at …
The call for papers for the 2010 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology has been posted. The conference will take place from April 15-17 (Thursday through Saturday) in Atlanta, GA. I am the philosophy program chair, and Lauren Taglialatela of Kennesaw State is the psychology program chair. …
Springer just released a new quarterly journal called ‘Cognitive Computation’, which might be of interest to some of the readers of this blog. The editor, Amir Hussain, summarizes the goal of the journal as follows: “Cognitive Computation specifically aims to publish cutting-edge articles describing original basic and applied work involving …
ASSC XIII finished on Monday but it was so packed that I needed a couple of days to rest and ruminate. Contrary to somehow disappointing TSC in Budapest in 2007, ASSC XIII was excellent, and as Thomas Metzinger stressed a couple of times, you could really see that the field …
I’ve just noticed that the program for ASSC XIII in Berlin (June, 5th-8th) has been published. Alas, I seem to be the only Brains contributor out there (having a talk during concurrent sessions), so I will surely report more here. I will defend a version of computationalism (more along the …
I’ve already mentioned how some philosophers are trying to offer pseudo-arguments to the affect that the APA anti-discrimination policy does not apply to hiring practices of religious institutions that de facto discriminate against homosexuals. David Hoekema (Calvin College) is another one of these — he has written yet another letter …
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside …
