Category: Social Cognition

Symposium on Del Pinal and Spaulding, “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias”

Mind & Language Symposia / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Social Cognition

I’m very glad to announce our latest Mind & Language symposium on Guillermo Del Pinal and Shannon Spaulding’s “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias” from the journal’s February 2018 issue. Commentators on the target article include Bryce Huebner (Georgetown), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY), Steven Sloman (Brown), and Ema Sullivan-Bissett (Birmingham). *** The term “implicit bias” is typically used refer …

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Call for Papers: Expanding Perception: The Role of Touch in Comparative Psychology, IJCP Special Issue

animal cognition / perception / Social Cognition

Call for Papers: Expanding Perception: The Role of Touch in Comparative Psychology, IJCP Special Issue  In recent years, researchers have begun to include diverse modes of perception in an effort to understand cognitive and affective processes in various species. In this special issue, we are interested in an interdisciplinary account …

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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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CFA: Understanding Social Cognition

CFPs / Social Cognition

We invite you to participate in the 3rd edition of the conference Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, that will be held in Lublin (Poland) on October 20-22, 2017. The leading theme is ‘Understanding Social Cognition’. A special event: symposium devoted to Daniel Dennett’s newest book. The deadline for abstract submission is …

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Morality, the Problem of Possible Future Selves, and Christmas Parables

Action / analytical philosophy / Ethics / human nature / naturalism / Neuroscience / Philosophy of Mind / Recent Work / Social Cognition

In my 2016 book, Rightness as Fairness: A Moral and Political Theory, I argue that morality is a solution to a problem of diachronic rationality called ‘the problem of possible future selves.’ To simplify (very) greatly, the problem–which is partially inspired by L.A. Paul’s groundbreaking work on transformative experience–is that (A) our present …

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CFP: Zahavi on Self and Other (Bochum)

CFPs / Conferences / Self-consciousness / Social Cognition

Call for Papers and Workshop Announcement Ruhr-Universität Bochum June 20-22, 2016 Prof. Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): Lectures on Self and Other Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of various books on Husserl’s Phenomenology, …

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Three Studies That No Moral Philosopher Should Ignore

Brownstein and Saul: "Implicit Bias and Philosophy" / Climate for women / Ethics / Social Cognition

Robin Zheng Newnham College University of Cambridge In my chapter, I argue that for cases of implicitly biased action, we should set aside questions of responsibility as attributability in favor of responsibility as accountability. As I interpret the distinction, the former constitute a problem in metaphysics and philosophy of action because we are …

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