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 …
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 February 3 to April 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
I’m very pleased to say that my FSU colleague Al Mele has won the APA’s 2013 Sanders Book Prize for Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (OUP, 2010). From the APA’s site: The Sanders Book Prize will be awarded to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology …
The Brains blog’s founder has been honored with the 2014 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. He will give a keynote speech at the IACP’s 2014 conference.
Now and then I get e-mails from philosophers or psychologists wondering if they can contribute to the Brains blog. In almost every case, the answer is: Of course! So if this is something you are interested in doing, please feel free to e-mail me: jschwenkler [[at]] fsu [[dot]] edu.
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