As you’ve no doubt noticed, I have installed a new “theme” that’s changed the appearance of the blog, especially with an eye toward being able to feature more posts at the top of the main page. Please let me know if there are any difficulties with the new format, or …
… hosted by Philosophy Talk, at noon PST today (Friday, 9/12).
… at 3:am Magazine.
As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
… is at Philosophical Disquisitions.
A precis of my book, Attention, can be found at Lisa Bortolotti’s blog, Imperfect Cognitions: https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.de/2014/07/attention.html Both Lisa and I were featured scholars here as Jakob is now (thanks John). I still(!) think attention is important and happy to have any discussion of the topic or on the book, here …
Today’s NY Times has an article about a new paper in Psychological Science on whether talent or practice is more important for elite performance. In a meta-analysis, the psychologists “found that deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, …
