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The Experiment Month initiative, run by Yale Cognitive Science and funded by the APA, is a program designed to help philosophers, who would not otherwise be able to, conduct experimental studies. Those interested in suggesting experiments can send their study proposals to the Experiment Month staff.  A team of philosophers …

Hi Brainers. I’m writing to again promote an online reading group. The last one, which was on Daniel Hutto’s “Folk Psychological Narratives,” was a fantastic success, and we’d like to continue doing such groups. The new subject is Tad Zawidzki’s manuscript, “Mindshaping: Linchpin of the Human Socio-Cognitive Syndrome,” which is …

After a wayward few years, The Southern Journal of Philosophy has recently been overhauled: new look, new editorial board, new publisher, online back catalog, improved standards, fully online submission and review process, etc. Now under the imprint of Wiley-Blackwell, the SJP continues its nearly 50-year tradition of pluralism by publishing …

In an earlier post I outlined the case for qualia realism from the higher-order perspective as I see it.Dave Chalmers worried that one of the moves was too quick. The move in question is the move from concepts making a difference to phenomenal experience to their determining phenomenal experience. Basically the line I was pushing was that …

This may be worth checking out.  Martha Farah conducted interviews with University of Pennsylvania faculty, as part of a recent lecture series, entitled “Conversations on Neuroscience and Society. ”   The interviews include discussion on the neurodynamical underpinnings of emotion, gender, warfare, crime and philosopher Susan Schneider’s views on how our great-great grandchildren might think.  Online …