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I have been away from Pittsburgh for about a year (May 2008-August 2009), and since I came back, I have been impressed by the amount of philosophy of cognitive science going on in Pittsburgh.  To wit: – I am teaching a graduate seminar surveying the philosophy of cognitive science (Mark …

Call for Papers: CO2: The Second Online Consciousness Conference February 2010 Please post and distribute widely; appologies for cross-posting I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the second Consciousness Online conference. We have a very exciting conference planned for this year with some new features (e.g. podcasts …

By Jim Virtel The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation would like your ideas to help people affected by mental illness.  They’re offering a substantial monetary prize for the best idea.  Anisha Imhoff-Kerr’s message is below: For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a …

I have been working on a rewrite of the paper I presented at the first Consciousness Online and the Pacific apa for the special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies that I am editing. The paper is still very drafty and needs a couple more passes before it will be …

As one might have expected, my book Doing without Concepts is meeting some resistance, and the first reviews have raised some interesting (and some less interesting, I think) objections to the claims made there (in a more or less pleasant tone!). Although this is not really the place to answer any of these …