In 1890 William James introduced the metaphor of the “stream of consciousness” into Western psychology: “Consciousness… is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, …
I recently published three articles that may be of interest to some readers: “The Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution,” (with Worth “Trey” Boone), Synthese. Articulates how cognitive neuroscience explains cognition in terms of representational, computational, multi-level mechanisms. “Access Denied to Zombies,” Topoi. Argues that in doing metaphysics we should pay closer attention …
Sisters and Brothers, Here are links to the abstracts for the Philosophy of Cognitive Science/Psychology stream at this years AAP. Timetable is currently being done 🙂. Also please note that there are some relevant talks in the Neuroethics Stream (which includes moral cognition) and some other good looking philosophy of …
The 41st annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina from June 4-6, 2015, with a pre-conference workshop, welcome reception, and poster session on Wednesday, June 3. Registration is now open at the SPP website. The program is not yet …
Together with my co-organizers Cameron Buckner and Nick Byrd, I am very pleased to announce the selection of papers for the first annual Minds Online Conference, which will be held at the Brains blog in September 2015. The conference will comprise four weeklong sessions, organized as described below. Further information, including …
… at Fast Thoughts, Slow Oughts.
Hong Yu Wong and his group are organizing an interdisciplinary action summer school in Tübingen (4/20-4/25). Graduate students and younger scholars in the cognitive science and philosophy of action are encouraged to apply. Details are available here: https://www.cinphilosophyandneuroscience.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool-on-action.php
