As I previously discussed, the journal Synthese publishes a yearly issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. In recent years, this has been perhaps the highest profile venue explicitly devoted to articles in the philosophy of neuroscience. For the first seven years or so, the editor of this Synthese special issue …
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Next deadline: November 1, 2011 Summary This prize began as a 5-year series of annual awards, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (1984-1988). In 1993, the Rockefeller Foundation gave its approval for the revival of this prize, which is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work in …
This fall, Barbara Strauch, health and medicine editor for The New York Times, will teach an online course entitled Exploring the Teenage Brain, a course that is part of The New York Times Knowledge Network and open to consumers nationwide. Programs of Study courses, developed and taught by New York …
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The head of the philosophy program at LaGuardia, John Chaffee, is the author of an introductory text book The Philosopher’s Way. The book is entering its fourth edition and John is updating the chapter on the self and consciousness. In particular he is updating the section on Paul Churchland’s eliminative materialism …
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMNOVEMBER 11-13, 2011SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2011 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB invites papers for aconference on the normative implications of recent work in moralpsychology, broadly construed. The conference will be held inBirmingham, AL on November 11-13, 2011.The conference, to be hosted by the …
