New Journal: Neuroethics
Neuroethics is now accepting submissions. (More information at Experimental Philosophy.)
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CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue
2nd CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.
* The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is organising an international two-day conference, ‘e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies’ to be held in York on May 14th-15th 2008…
A Request for Advice on Constructing a Bibliography on Concepts
Greetings to the Brains community. My name is Mike Ferreira; I’m a student in the Philosophy department at Ohio State. I write because I’m in the early stages of constructing the bibliography on which I’ll be tested for candidacy. This is a request for input in the form of suggestions for additions and omissions …
All in the Mind on the blog
The excellent program All in the Mind from the ABC Radio National is launching a program’s blog here. On Saturday, there will be an interview with Steven Pinker.
Modeling, Simulation and Computational Science: Perspectives from different sciences
Workshop 29.11.2007 – 30.11.2007 HelsinkiThursday 29.11. 2007: Metsätalo, aud. 4, ( Unioninkatu 40)Computational templates and computational science:10.00 – 11.15 Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia: “Computational Templates: Representation and Application”11.15 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 12.15 Andrea Loettgers, California Institute of Technology: “Computational templates in modeling biological systems”12.15 …
MindPapers
David Chalmers has just announced the launch of MindPapers – an online database of mind-related papers on the Web. It’s much bigger than the bibliography he compiled and offers additional options such as submitting papers to it.
Neanderthal Speak?
An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence. This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do. (A couple of quick …