Category: Psychology

Is there a single concept of well-being?

Anna Alexandrova: A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being / Ethics / Psychology

My interest in what is now called the science of well-being dates back to my graduate school days at UC San Diego. Sometime in the mid-aughts I came across a debate between psychologists who advanced ‘hedonic profile’ measures of happiness and those who favoured life satisfaction questionnaires. The former argued …

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Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science

Cognition / Explanation / functionalism / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / Psychology / reduction

This forthcoming volume, edited by David Kaplan, should be of interest to The Brains Blog community, and it includes papers by fellow contributors Gualtiero Piccinini and Corey Maley:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/explanation-and-integration-in-mind-and-brain-science-9780199685509?cc=us&lang=en&#

 

The 3rd Annual Minds Online Conference Starts Monday!

Academia / Attention / Belief / Conferences / Experimental Philosophy / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Social Cognition

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session’s papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post for the rest of the details.

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New M.Sc. in Early Childhood Research

Academia / Psychology

The M.Sc. in Early Childhood Research at Leipzig University (Germany) is a two-year Master’s program fully conducted in English. The program aims to enable highly qualified students to build up a career as a researcher as well as a scientific coordinator, consultant or advisor in the interdisciplinary field of early …

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Experimental Philosophy Meets Developmental Psychology

Experimental Philosophy / Psychology

Of all the many topics explored by experimental philosophers, the one that has received perhaps the most attention in the meta-philosophical literature is the issue of demographic effects. Work on this topic asks whether people’s intuitions about philosophical questions differ across demographic variables such as culture, gender and age. As many of you will …

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What can we learn from the Implicit Association Test? A Brains Blog Roundtable

Cognition / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology

Recently there has been a lot of discussion of the value of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a measure of implicit bias — discussion generated largely by a new paper by Calvin Lai, Patrick Forscher and their colleagues that presents the results of a meta-analysis of studies conducted using the …

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Important changes to the SPP mailing lists

CFPs / Conferences / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology

Colin Allen writes on behalf of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology: Because of new restrictions on hosting mailing lists on faculty machines at Texas A&M, after two decades of service (thanks to Chris Menzel!) we are shifting the SPP mailing lists to Google groups. We are keeping the same …

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