Here is the full story; here is an excerpt: The Institute of Philosophy, a member institute of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, has been awarded a major research grant of £1,950,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The research grant will support a three-year project based …
January 9-10, 2014 University of Leeds Confirmed speakers: Alex Byrne, M.G.F. Martin, Susanna Schellenberg Organisers: Heather Logue, Jason Leddington Contemporary philosophy of perception is dominated by two views of the nature of perceptual experience: Naïve Realism (also known as the Relational View) and Intentionalism (also known as the Representational View). …
I’m very glad to be able to kick off the first of a series of symposia that Brains will be hosting on papers from Mind & Language. This month our target article is “Flavour, Taste and Smell”, by Louise Richardson of York University in the UK.
Here’s William James: [Attention] is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with …
Dear Readers of the Brains Blog: I’m in the final stages of writing the chapter on the phenomenology of attention for a book on attention for Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532242/ I thought I would both encourage general discussion of issues regarding attention and also solicit feedback on the text, parts of which …
We are conducting a study of color discrimination and short-term color memory. I would be grateful if you would participate in the study. You’ll need to use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the color of a square to fit the color of a second image. It will …
A post on Molyneux’s question that I wrote for this blog back in 2011 has since blossomed into a full-blown article on the subject, which was published in the most recent issue of Analysis (for an ungated copy, see here). Here is the abstract of the article: Do spatial features …
