At the beginning of September, we had another (already 6th) Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop in Kazimierz Dolny, and yesterday I just got back from GAP7 and a after-GAP7 workshop on reductionism, explanation and metaphors in philosophy of mind. Though contrary to your expectations, Carl Craver wasn’t talking about mechanisms in Kazimierz …
In Czech Republic, due to the financial crisis, the government wants to liquidate research institutions of Czech Academy of Science as well as to stop funding all basic research (including philosophy). Here is the website where you can help Czech scientists by signing a petition and read more.
By Jim Virtel Crooked Timber linked to an interesting yet disconcerting post about the power of incompetence in Italian academic circles. The full article is also worth your time. (Hat tip to Andrea Scarantino)
In Inside Higher Ed.
The Extended Mind Thesis in Theory and Applications Date: November 23 – 25, 2009 Venue: ZiF Bielefeld, Germany https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/philosophie/extendedmind/
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. …
