GUEST EDITOR Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri – St. Louis INTRODUCTION Cognitive neuroscientists routinely explain cognition in terms of neural computations over neural representations. Yet some critics argue that cognitive neuroscience does not need the notions of neural computation and representations or, worse, that these notions are untenable. Whether or …
Proposals are welcome for the Second International Conference on Philosophy of Mind, which will be held at University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), on September 21-22, 2016. We will focus on two main concepts of Philosophy of Mind, broadly considered: 1) Thought and 2) Perception. Graduate students, junior researchers and senior scholars are welcome to submit their …
The Spanish Philosophy journal teorema is pleased to announce an essay competition for young scholars. The winner will receive 1500€, and the essay will be published and acknowledged as winner in the journal. Topic: Perceiving Other Minds Access to other people’s mental states has frequently been thought to be a …
CFP for BPPA Masterclass on Naïve Realism and Its Challenges At the University of Warwick, on the 8th of October 2016; Room TBC The deadline for submitting your work is the 1st of September 2016. Until recently, the idea that perceptual experiences are representational states was dominant, if not unquestioned. …
Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations The University of Sheffield, September 5th & 6th. Deadline: 1st May 2016 Theme: What is the relationship between psychological and structural explanations of persistent social injustice? Much empirical and philosophical work focuses on individualistic psychological explanations for ongoing injustice. Such explanations appeal to …
Call for Papers and Workshop Announcement Ruhr-Universität Bochum June 20-22, 2016 Prof. Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): Lectures on Self and Other Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of various books on Husserl’s Phenomenology, …
Call for posters: “Memory and Subjectivity” Grenoble (France), the 9th-10th-11th of June, 2016 We invite participants to submit a poster to the Memory and Subjectivity 2016 conference. Posters can restrict themselves to the philosophical perspective or the psychological one. Submissions Researchers interested in presenting a poster should prepare an overview …
