Ben Baker I admit I was somewhat put off by the first two sentences of Favela and Machery’s paper. It feels odd to use “mainstream___ism” to label merely the wide application of a concept – or even just use of the word “representation” – when we are not sure about …
By Ting Huang (See all posts in this series here.) In a prior symposium on the book I posed the following clarifying questions to Vierkant regarding his stance on free will: Does “managerial control” provide basis for moral responsibility? In line with Holton’s conception of choice, what role does consciousness …
By Paulius Rimkevicius, Chapman University (See all posts in this series here.) Like a tinker, who travels freely from place to place mending metal utensils and sometimes ends up creating quite an extraordinary-looking gadget out of the simple old things that he finds, a philosopher who is well-versed in more …
Hi Everyone! Join us this week for a symposium on Till Vierkant’s exciting new book, The Tinkering Mind! Till will kick us off today with a precis, followed by commentaries from Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius, and Ting Huang. Then, on Friday, Till will respond. Join us in the discussion board …
We’re excited to share the CFA for the next iteration of the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup’s annual Phil Neuro extravaganza at the beach! See the details below! You can follow updates at the workshop’s PhilEvents page here: https://philevents.org/event/show/110697.
The following opportunity may be of interest to some Brains Blog readers! https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2023/
We are delighted to announce the next in our series of Brains Blog Roundtables. The topic of this discussion is Buddhism in Philosophy of Mind! Please join Dan Burnston and our very exciting panel, Monima Chadha (Monash), Owen Flanagan (Duke), and Evan Thompson (UBC) for a fantastic discussion about how …
