“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” — Martin Luther “[M]en believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza We have an intuitive …
Conference Venue: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Noto, Italy Details Keynote Speakers: Renée Baillargeon (Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Bill Brewer (Philosophy, King’s College London) Marisa Carrasco (Psychology, New York University) Richard Holton (Philosophy, University of Cambridge) Invited Symposia Will Include: Bodily Representation (Organizer: Fredrique de Vignemont, Institut Jean-Nicod) …
Conference Venue: Universidad de Granada Granada, Spain Details The Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science (PBCS) aims at promoting interaction among philosophers, cognitive scientists and biologists on issues of common interest. In its fourth edition, the organizers would like to encourage young researchers to participate in this fresh and distinctive forum …
Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario London, Canada Details The Philosophy Department of the University of Western Ontario is pleased to announce the 12th annual PhilMiLCog graduate conference on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Cognitive Science. Submissions by graduate students in the fields of philosophy of …
Conference Venue: University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom Details The subjectivity of conscious experience has been increasingly recognised as a crucial target for consciousness research. This interdisciplinary workshop will address a range of key questions about the subjective structure of consciousness: What does it mean to say that a mental state is subjective? Does …
CFP: Naturalism, the First Person Perspective and the Embodied Mind Conference Venue: PERSONA, CeSEP, CRESA and CRISI of the Faculty of Philosophy, San Raffaele University Milano, Italy Lynne Baker’s Challenge: Metaphysical and Practical Approaches “If there is an impersonal conception of the world that includes all the individuals and all …
CFP: Self-Knowledge and Folk Psychology: Perspectives from philosophy and psychiatry Conference Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands Details In his classic 1956 article, Wilfrid Sellars provided an alternative to the introspectionist account of how we know our own mental states by claiming that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts postulated …
