I’ve been asked to assist in distributing this CFP: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** “Mind, Brain, and Experience:At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine” April 10-11, 2008Denver, Colorado hosted by University of Colorado Denver Department of Philosophywith support fromUniversity of Colorado President’s Fund for the HumanitiesandUniversity of Colorado Center …
We are very happy to announce a new group, the ‘Society for the Metaphysics of Science’, (unsurprisingly) devoted to the ‘metaphysics of science’. We would like to invite anyone interested to join the group and also to attend our upcoming sessions at the Pacific and Central APA Conferences. The website …
I have the good fortune (I think) to have become a part of the program committee for the 2008 meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Some contributors to Brains were a part of the 2006 program. Moreover, some of the 2006 sessions were likely of interest to readers of …
A student who prefers to remain anonymous has sent me the following interesting query:I have recently been offered a place in a top Canadian PhD program (one that is ranked quite highly in about 7 specialty areas). Since I have a master’s, I have been accepted directly into the PhD …
Brains regulars may know that Fred Adams and I have been trying to put up the good fight against extended cognition. (Rob Rupert has been in there, too, of course.) We now have five works on the topic “forthcoming.” Our latest addition to this future literature is a paper of …
The last issue of the New Yorker has a long profile of Paul and Patricia Churchland. This is a must-read for anyone who is not well acquainted with the history of the Churchlands. Unfortunately, the article gets some important aspects of the background history wrong. For instance, it suggests that …
Following up on my suggestion of posting about sessions on the philosophy of neuroscience at the upcoming ISHPSSB, here is some:I will be involved in two sessions dealing with the History and Philosophy of Electrophysiology. Other panelists include: Bill Bechtel, Jim Bogen, Don Goodman, Ken Schaffner, Daniel Sirtes, and Marcel Weber.There …
