(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) Via David Rosenthal- There was a conference entitled “Theory Of Consciousness In Analytic Phenomenology And Philosophy Of Mind,” at the University of Bern, Switzerland, May 27-29, 2009. Podcasts of the talks are, for the next 2-3 years, at https://cast.switch.ch/vod/channels/g3bo2419i Talks are by David M. Rosenthal, Gianfranco …
Call for Papers: The Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference February 2010 Papers in any area of consciousness studies are welcome and should be roughly 3,000-4,000 words, suitable for blind review, and sent to consciousnessonline@gmail.com <mailto:consciousnessonline@gmail.com> by *January 5th 2009*. Those interested in being referees or commentators should also contact consciousnessonline@gmail.com. …
By Benj Hellie Brains readers: sup. Lovely to be here — thanks to Gualtiero for signing me up. I’ll kick off my tenure here with the fifty cent tour of a paper I’m working on as part of work on my book MS, Conscious Life. Title: ‘Experience as action’. Thesis: …
By Jim Virtel Vincent Müller’s useful job posting site “Jobs in Philosophy” has changed its URL to https://www.jobsinphilosophy.org/. The site lists available philosophy positions on six continents and links to other philosophy job posting sites here.
By Jim Virtel 3226 people completed PhilPapers’ Philosophical Survey and 727 people completed the Philosophical Metasurvey. The preliminary results of the survey and metasurvey are already posted. More results, such as geographical effects, will be posted later. You may also contribute to the discussion forum here.
I just thought I would give everyone a heads-up on our very own Eric Schwitzgebel’s recent citation in The New Yorker in Margaret Talbot’s article on nightmare research, “Nightmare Scenario”. The article appeared in the Nov. 16, 2009 edition (available online only if you have a subscription).
This interesting article in the New York Times got me thinking. We seem to be at a computational crossroad. If we are really about to hit a wall with respect to improving processing speed and power with traditional scaling techniques (though see this interesting article on a recent breakthrough in spintronics and this …
