Submissions for a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on consciousness attribution in moral cognition are due at the end of this month. The list of invited authors includes: Kurt Gray (Maryland) and Chelsea Schein (Maryland), Anthony I. Jack (Case Western Reserve) and Philip Robbins (Missouri), Edouard …
(cross-posted at Hesperus is Bosphorus) Ulric Neisser, an American psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology died last month. Neisser’s life, including his major contributions to the revolution of the study of the human cognition is well documented; see for instance, the NY Times obituary and the Mind …
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This article in the New York Times caught my attention yesterday, partly because just a few weeks ago I commented on paper at the Central APA meeting on the punishment of late stage demented offenders: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dementia-among-aging-criminals.html The number of prisoners in the US with dementia is on the rise. The …
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has now officially begun and will run until March 2nd. Stop by https://consciousnessonline.com to get in on the action!
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] There has been a lot of action on the overflow front lately! It started with papers by Ned Block and Dennett and Cohen in Trends in Cognitive Science (Block’s paper criticized, among others, my recent paper on this stuff). These articles spawned a response by me …
