CFP: Jagiellonian-Rutgers Conference in Cognitive Science 2014 (CogSciJR14)
Dates: 25-29 June 2014 Theme: Cognition and Action Location: Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) Submission deadline: 31 January 2014
Category: Action
On Automaticity and Control
[Update: given really helpful discussion below, I’ve put a summary of some of the extended comments below] I want to begin with a distinction that I think is fundamental to our thinking about the mind and yet is not adequately characterized by philosophers or psychologists (the latter will beg to …
CFP: Mental Actions and Mental Agency
CALL FOR PAPERS Mental Actions and Mental Agency Special Issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest Editors: Anika Fiebich, and John Michael Deadline for Submissions: February 1st 2014 In recent decades, mental actions have been discussed intensively in the scientific debate on intentional actions. Within this debate ‘mental …
A New Theory of Free Will
Just a quick note that I recently published an article in The Philosophical Forum , “A New Theory of Free Will“, that may be of interest to readers (a free PDF of the penultimate draft is available here). Here’s the abstract: This paper shows that several live philosophical and scientific hypotheses – including …
Conscious Vision in Action
Robert Briscoe and I have been working for quite some time on a paper that synthesizes work that the two of us had been doing independently concerning the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis. Each of us is concerned (albeit with somewhat different motivations) to defend the idea that conscious visual awareness …
Call For Papers: Collective Intentionality
Collective Intentionality VIII University of Manchester August 28-31, 2012 Collective Intentionality VIII – as the name suggests! – is the eighth in a series of large-scale international events on joint and/or cooperative action, reasoning, decision, intention, attention, and associated mental and agential phenomena, topics that impact on issues in ethics …
Sociology and Economics as Branches of Physics
Mark Buchanan, The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. Buchanan is an American physicist and former editor of Nature. In his latest book, he argues that the collective behavior of human beings can be understood …