NATURALISM AND THE MIND KAZIMIERZ NATURALISM WORKSHOP 2009 September 4th – 8th 2009 Kazimierz Dolny, Poland This year we will focus on a topic that should be of interest for Brain readers and contributors – the mind, and we will do that in a naturalistic way Invited key speakers Tim …
Brian Leiter is running polls about the best journals in philosophy. Wayne Wu and others are trying to put together a list of journals in philosophy of mind and related sciences for Leiter to run a poll on. Wayne points out the following: “The big problem I’m realizing, of course, …
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Postgraduate Conference The Metaphysics of Mind Keynote speaker: Professor Jaegwon Kim (Brown University) Edinburgh, 6 July 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited from postgraduate students on any aspect of the metaphysics of mind, e.g. psychophysical reduction, multiple realization, the explanatory gap, physicalism and emergentism, mental …
Two post-docs of interest for the readers of this blog: 1. 2-year posdoctoral fellowship in the philosophy of cognitive science at Oxford (starting Oct 2009, deadline: March 6). Information here. 2. 2-year postdoctoal fellowship at the Institut Jean-Nicod (starting Oct 2009, deadline: Aoril 10). The applicant’s research area should be …
As the new PGR is out, I’ll take this opportunity to thank Brian Leiter for his service to the community. In my opinion, the PGR is an extraordinarily useful tool: primarily for aspiring graduate students, and secondarily for everyone else in philosophy. Surely it’s not perfect, but it’s a lot …
I try to avoid inflamatory language, but this petition is upsetting: philosophers splitting hairs in support of policies that discriminate against homosexuals (HT: Leiter Reports). Their main point seems to be that you are not really discriminating against homosexuals as long as you are not asking them to change their sexual orientation …
September 24 – 26, 2009Lord Nelson HotelHalifax • Nova Scotia • Canada https://www.noveltechethics.ca/site_brainmatters.php Re: Call for Abstracts – Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics This conference will bring together new and established researchers from around the world with a complementary range of expertise in ethics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, medicine, …
