Philosophers' Carnival #133
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Sid Kouider on Partial Awareness
Cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks! So much has been going on in nyc that I have had trouble keeping up with it. However I have a bit of free time today and wanted to jot down a few notes about Sid Kouider’s recent presentation at the CUNY CogSci Colloquium. Sid was …
What is empirically-informed philosophy of mind?
John Schwenkler’s thought-provoking survey on the climate for women in empirically-informed philosophy of mind prompts me to think more carefully about what empirically-informed philosophy of mind actually is. Are there necessary and sufficient conditions for a type of philosophical inquiry to be considered empirically-informed? I would like to generate a …
New Philosophers' Carnival
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Conference Announcement and 1st Call for Papers: MINDS, BODIES, AND PROBLEMS
A philosophy of mind conference hosted by Bilkent University, Ankara, 7-8 June, 2012. High-quality submissions are invited on the many aspects of the mind-body problem. Some suggested topics include: naturalistic/physicalistic reduction of intentionality and/or phenomenal consciousness, the potential constitutive role of the body in mental states, the extended …
Postdoc position at UMSL
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO. Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters (pending administrative approval), Department of Philosophy. Begins Spring Semester (January 15) 2012 or later. AOS: philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and computing. AOC: open. The postdoctoral fellow will work …
Reconstructing the movie in your head
Looking at MRI signals in visual cortex, researchers were able to reconstruct, with varying degrees of success, the movie clips people were watching (examples below in movie). The most obvious applications we could extrapolate to are for folks who are paralyzed, or perhaps even during dreaming. What I find most …