Understanding the nature of “vertical” relations whether in science, nature, mathematics, logic, or anywhere else, is a hot topic in philosophy. What is unfortunate is that, as yet, too little attention is paid to focused issues about what frameworks work best for the “vertical” relations in particular areas. However, it …
With the Minds Online conference now in the rearview mirror we are back to regular programming here at Brains, including two upcoming journal symposia and visits from the authors of several new and forthcoming books: Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday 10/11, Carl Gillett will blog for several days about his book Reduction and Emergence in …
[ There’s an academic strike in the UK this week (details here) so I’ll be offline for Wednesday and Thursday. What I thought I’d do is throw out two more posts today, then get to responding to any comments on Friday. Joel ] The clock on my office wall has …
I am very pleased to say that after a rather quiet start to 2016 we have a lot of interesting content lined up for the next few months at Brains. In April we will host our next two journal symposia: From April 6-10, on Kevin Tobia‘s “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, …
The past year was a great success at Brains, drawing over 170,000 total visits to the main blog and over 23,000 more to the first annual Minds Online Conference, together more than doubling our record-setting 2014. Brains also passed the mark of 1,000 followers on Facebook and is just about there on Twitter as well. …
After the end of the Minds Online conference this week, we have several featured authors and a journal symposium scheduled for the weeks ahead: From September 28 – October 2, Peter Carruthers will blog about The Centered Mind, new from Oxford University Press. From October 5 – 9, Eva Schmidt will blog about Modest …
In the coming weeks before the Minds Online Conference begins on August 31, we’ll feature posts about new books from two authors who are very well known to readers of this blog, as well as our first Neuroethics symposium: During the week of August 10, the founder of the Brains blog, Gualtiero Piccinini, …
