Just in case people don’t know about the really cool conference/workshop being organized by Berit Brogaard and Kathleen Akins in August 2011 the deadline for workshop participants, poster presentations and conference registration has been extended so check it out!
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Coming up 16-19 May at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If you happen to be in Israel at that time, you shouldn’t miss it.
The Yale Experiment Month studies have now gone live here. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Experiment Month is an APA-sponsored initiative designed to give a selected number of applicants the opportunity to carry out studies in experimental philosophy. There are a number of studies on the site that …
Patricia Churchland’s new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality is now out. I haven’t read it yet, but I know she has been talking about and researching this topic for a long time. I expect it to be a fun, interesting read. Her basic thesis is that morality …
In the last month or so, two Ph.D. students at two different schools told me they changed their research focus from foundational topics (such as computational theories of cognition) to moral psychology. Is this indicative of a trend? Moral psychology is obviously fascinating and has seen much new work in recent …
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