Greetings Brains folks, I wanted to follow up on Gualtiero’s posting of the conference I am hosting in Mississippi (October 2011). Although it is a regional conference, I especially would like for folks interested in theoretical debates in X-Phi to apply. We will be posting travel info and accommodation information …
In just a little less than two weeks, New York City will be home to the second annual Experimental Philosophy Workshop. This year’s workshop will be highlighting research in the experimental philosophy of consciousness, with presentations by Shaun Nichols, Edouard Machery and Kurt Gray and commentaries by Alvin Goldman, David …
For those interested, Eric Schwitzgebel and I have been exploring the relationship between knowledge ascriptions and belief ascriptions. We just finished a draft on this topic, which can be found here. Abstract: The standard view in contemporary epistemology is that knowledge entails belief. Proponents of this claim rarely offer a …
Dan Haybron’s recent post on ‘The Folk Concept of Happiness’ brings up an interesting question that I think deserves some further discussion. Is people’s ordinary concept of happiness a purely psychological one, or is it wrapped up in some way with irreducibly normative or moral issues? To address this question, …
