See the following video from the Emerson-Wier Liberal Arts Symposium on the topic of interdisciplinarity at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Spaulding’s remarks begin at 25 minutes, and Kandel’s response begins at 1:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y0KXh1bTqqM There has been a fair amount of discussion recently on Facebook concerning how to frame …
I wanted to let you all know about a new exciting project going on at Duke University: Neuro.Tv, a monthly online discussion between psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers talking about minds, brains and behaviors. Take a look! The link is: neuro.tv.
On artificial intelligence and downloading our minds into computers, in the NY Times’ The Stone.
Another discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas, featuring Simon Saunders, Mark Rowlands, and Hannah Dawson: Watch more videos on iai.tv
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in February. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Berit Brogaard (forthcoming). An Empirically-Informed Cognitive Theory of Propositions. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard, Eddy Nahmias, Chandra Sripada & Lisa Ross (2014). The Free Will Inventory: Measuring Beliefs About Agency and Responsibility. Consciousness and Cognition 25:27-41. …
As part of this year’s Australasian Association of Philosophy meeting (6th-11th July, Australian National University) The Australasian Society for Cognitive Science will be coordinating a stream Advances in Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences and Psychology. In recent decades philosophers taking a rigorously naturalistic approach to the mind (broadly treating minds …
21-22, November 2014 Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260 Summary: The goal of this conference is to address the crisis in psychiatric research and treatment by exploring the ways in which the mind-brain dualism can be overcome in contemporary psychiatry. We invite the submission …
