Joe Ulatowski, Dan Weijers, and Justin Sytsma have recently revived the x-phi blog under the auspices of the Australasian Experimental Philosophy Group: xphiblog.com. Edouard Machery has recently put up a post on the Geography of Philosophy project. More content is coming soon.
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The Moral Responsibility Blog
Lately I’ve become interested in moral responsibility, an area where there’s been a lot of interesting recent work at the intersection between ethics and cognitive science. One good place to learn about new ideas in this area is a the moral responsibility blog, by moral responsibility theorist Michelle Ciurria (UNSW).
Wednesday Links
Apologies for a few weeks of vacation-induced silence. Thanks to Philipp et al. for an excellent symposium, and Kristina and Jakob for what promise to be a very stimulating couple of weeks. I’ll continue posting links periodically through the summer. – JS The unanimous selection for the Philosophical Explorations Essay Prize 2014 is …
Friday Links
More links below. Keep them coming! — JS Slate‘s Sam Kean on the true story of frontal lobe patient Phineas Gage (h/t LeiterReports) In the same vein, Kean again, this time in Wired magazine, on what happens when a surgeon removes your hippocampus (h/t David Pereplyotchik on Facebook) Claire Wilson in …
What do out of body experiences tell us about self-consciousness; Or, Disorders of Self-Consciousness Part 5
Another attempt at popularising my work from over at idontknowwhatiam “I awoke at night – it must have been about 3am – and realized that I was completely unable to move. I was absolutely certain I was not dreaming, as I was enjoying full consciousness. Filled with fear about my …
New Blog: Underappreciated Philosophy?
I’d like to invite everyone to check out this new blog I’ve started: Underappreciated Philosophy?. It’s something of an experiment. I have no idea if it will actually fly. But, or so it seems to me, it’s worth a try. Existing power-structures in the discipline — gender imbalances, biases, journal rankings, …
Some Exciting Developments at Brains
I’m pleased to have a lot of good news to announce about the future of this site. First, as I’m sure is evident already, the blog has undergone a massive redesign, and we’ve migrated all the content over to a WordPress platform that’s not only visually pleasing, but also highly …
Brains welcomes two new contributors
I’m glad to announce that Robert Briscoe and Myrto Mylopoulos are the newest contributors to Brains. For those of you who don’t know their work (and you should!), Myrto is a Ph.D. candidate at CUNY doing important work on the relationship between action and consciousness, and Robert is Associate Professor …
New Synesthesia Blog
The St. Louis Synesthesia Research team has updated the website to include a blog on synesthesia. We hope to share the experiences of both having and researching this interesting condition. We are open to contributions from outside authors with an interest in synesthesia. Check out the first post by Kristian …
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 …
Aizawa's Bounds of Cognition Blog
Brains readers interested in extended cognition, please stop by my blog. https://theboundsofcognition.blogspot.com/ I post something small almost every day with each day’s post more or less closely related to the previous ones, like a stream of semi-consciousness… Thanks, Ken
Brains Development
By Jim Virtel Brains has experienced tremendous growth over the past few months. First, welcome to the many new contributors. Second, the site averages over 200 unique visitors per day — triple the amount of traffic in September 2009. Thanks to all contributors, old and new, for increasing Brains’ popularity. …
Welcome to the New Brains
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New Extended Cognition Blog
Kris Rhodes, grad student at UC-Irvine, has started The Extended Cognition Blog. I’ve posted an entry and a comment to help get it going. I’m betting others are welcome.