… about the number of our senses, according to Barry C. Smith in this new video from Aeon. For a dissenting view with lots of ensuing discussion, look back to our inaugural Mind & Language symposium, on Louise Richardson’s “Flavour, Taste, and Smell”.
Category: Symposia
Symposium on Helming, Strickland, and Jacob, “Solving the Puzzle about Early Belief-Ascription”
I am very pleased to launch our latest Mind & Language symposium on Katharina A. Helming, Brent Strickland, and Pierre Jacob’s “Solving the Puzzle about Early Belief-Ascription” from the journal’s September 2016 issue, with commentaries by Hayley Clatterbuck (Rochester), Marco Fenici (Florence), Daniel Hutto (Wollongong), Josef Perner (Salzburg), Rose Scott (UC Merced), and Evan Westra with Peter Carruthers (Maryland).
Upcoming Events at the Brains blog
With the Minds Online conference now in the rearview mirror we are back to regular programming here at Brains, including two upcoming journal symposia and visits from the authors of several new and forthcoming books: Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday 10/11, Carl Gillett will blog for several days about his book Reduction and Emergence in …
Symposium on Bence Nanay, “The Role of Imagination in Decision-Making”
I’m happy to kick off our latest Mind & Language symposium on Bence Nanay’s “The Role of Imagination in Decision-Making,” from the journal’s February 2016 issue, with commentaries by Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna ) and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State). The psychological process of decision-making is often explained in terms of an agent’s beliefs and desires (or other pro-attitudes): practical reasoning is essentially a …
Neuroethics Symposium on Tobia’s “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics”
Welcome to our second Brains Blog symposium on papers published in the journal Neuroethics. Our target paper for this symposium is Kevin Tobia’s (Yale University) “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics.” Below you will find an introduction to the symposium and brief précis of the paper, followed by commentaries written …
Open Access: Tobia’s “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics”
In advance of this week’s online symposium, our second on papers published in the journal Neuroethics, Springer has kindly agreed to make our target paper “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics” open access. The paper presents an experiment suggesting that not just magnitude of change but also direction of …
Call for commentators: “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics”
Brains invites philosophers and academics in other relevant disciplines to act as a commentator for our upcoming symposium, the second in our series on papers published in the journal Neuroethics. The target paper by Kevin Tobia (Yale) is titled “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics” (abstract below). We are looking …