Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
I try to avoid inflamatory language, but this petition is upsetting: philosophers splitting hairs in support of policies that discriminate against homosexuals (HT: Leiter Reports). Their main point seems to be that you are not really discriminating against homosexuals as long as you are not asking them to change their sexual orientation …
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September 24 – 26, 2009Lord Nelson HotelHalifax • Nova Scotia • Canada https://www.noveltechethics.ca/site_brainmatters.php Re: Call for Abstracts – Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics This conference will bring together new and established researchers from around the world with a complementary range of expertise in ethics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, medicine, …
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Check out PhilPapers, a new philosophy online resources created by David Chalmers and David Bourget. (HT: Leiter Reports.)
Philosophy journals are notoriously slow in processing submissions. They often take a year or so to decide whether to accept a paper, and when they reject, they often give no useful feedback to the author. At the same time, editors complain about the increasing number of submissions – most of which …
