NA-CAP@LOYOLA 2007
THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
July 26th – 28th, 2007
Call for Proposals…
Category: Academia
IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling
We would like to invite you to submit a paper for the IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling…
Papers Due: January 31, 2007
New Comment on the Philosophy Job Market
Some time ago, I wrote two posts on the philosophy job market, which generated a certain amount of discussion. Today, an anonymous reader posted a particularly informative new comment. The comment was posted in the old version of the blog, where few people are likely to find it. So I …
Feedback on Graduate Students’ Work
When I was in graduate school, I remember how hard it was to get good feedback on my dissertation work. My advisor was great, but it was difficult to get feedback from others. I tried to send my work to other experts outside my department, and some of them were …
Pittsburgh, HPS: A new area of concentration in the History & Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
It’s time to apply for grad school in philosophy. So, this may be of interest to some readers of this blog. The department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh has a new area of concentation in the History & Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry. …
Philosophy of Neuroscience at ISHPSSB
Given that there is no society for the philosophy of neuroscience, I would like to propose that we try to make ISHPSSB https://www.ishpssb.org/ (Ishkabibble, among frriends) a temporary home for the philosophy of neuroscience https://artsci.wustl.edu/%7Eneuro/index.html community. ISHPSSB is the largest philosophy of biology organization in the world, and it attracts …
PSA Highlights
Some sessions I enjoyed last week at the 2006 PSA in Vancouver:Philosophy in the Trenches: From Naturalized to Experimental Philosophy (of Science)Jonathan Weinberg and Stephen Crowley argued that experimental philosophy is, indeed, philosophy (contrary to some exclusionary views to the effect that ‘experimental philosophy’ is an oxymoron).Karola Stotz presented some …