Philosophers’ Carnival No. 146
It’s here, and well worth the read.
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Qualia Fest 2012 in the New York Times
The article is here, featuring a photo of our own Richard Brown and Pete Mandik jamming with Alex Keifer in Quiet Karate Reflex, plus quotes from Richard, Dave Chalmers, and others. Event details here; and here is the event page on Facebook.
CFA: New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility
This is a call for abstracts for the second biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 7-9, 2013. Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility. Perspectives beyond just those …
Brains welcomes three new contributors
I am very pleased to welcome several new contributors to “Brains”: Kristina Musholt is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. She has published papers on self-consciousness and the relationships between conceptual and non-conceptual forms of representation. Miguel Angel Sebastián …
Eliasmith's S.P.A.U.N. in Nature
Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5, in legible if messy writing. This is an unremarkable feat for a human, but Spaun is actually …
Qualia Fest 2012
To any and all in the Tri-State area you are invited to the 3rd Qualia Fest. Organized by the New York Consciousness Collective the Qualia Fest is an annual event that celebrates the music of philosophers and cognitive scientists. When: Monday December 10th 2012 Where: The Bowery Electric 327 Bowery …
McCulloch in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
An interesting bunch of papers on McCulloch are available here. Now we have a fairly nice collection of papers that can throw some light on early computationalism.