Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: MISSISSIPPI PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, STARKVILLE, MS OCTOBER 7-8, 2011 THEME: EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND ITS CRITICS: SURVEYS, NATURALISM, AND TRADITION KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JONATHAN WEINBERG, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA The Mississippi Philosophical Association (MPA) is soliciting abstracts for presentations at its annual meeting, to be held …
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Sadly, philosophy is rarely taught in US high schools. High Phi is a valuable project put together by Mitch Green (U Virginia) to promote and support the teaching of philosophy in US high schools. Kudos to Mitch!
It’s hard to believe but even in our day and age, there are plenty of fairly distinguished philosophers who defend the existence of mental life after brain death. My neuroscience colleague Sonya Bahar and I have written a paper explaining why what we know about the brain makes a strong …
Another interesting link from Peter Suber: a list of institutions that provide funds to pay for fee-based OA journals. If your institution is not listed there, you might consider doing something about that.
The Journal of Cognitive Science has recently increased its number of yearly issues and is looking for some submissions to be published this year. It’s a good quality interdisciplinary journal with a fast turn-around time. Feel free to forward this news to other blogs or listservs. From the journal’s webpage: …
Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest editors: Adrian J. T. Smith & Frédérique de Vignemont Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 15th of August, 2011 Cognition is embodied. The body is represented. Is there genuinely a convergence of ideas here? Does the claim that representations of …
