The third annual Minds Online Conference will be held at the Brains blog during the month of September 2017. The conference will feature keynote presentations by Helen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes University) and Bertram Gawronski (University of Texas at Austin).
Submissions of 3,500 to 7,500 words, prepared for anonymous review, are due by March 15. For more details, see the Call for Papers.
CFA—BIAS IN CONTEXT #4: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF INJUSTICE University of Utah, Salt Lake City October 12 – 13 2017 ***DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS, May 15*** Conference Website: https://biasincontext4.weebly.com/ THEME: What is the relationship between psychological and structural explanations of persistent social injustice? This conference—the final in a series of …
The ALIUS Bulletin is an annual publication of the ALIUS research group, featuring in-depth interviews with prominent scholars working on consciousness and its altered states (ASCs). The goal of the Bulletin is to present a clear outline of current research on ASCs across a variety of disciplines, with an emphasis …
We invite you to participate in the 3rd edition of the conference Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, that will be held in Lublin (Poland) on October 20-22, 2017. The leading theme is ‘Understanding Social Cognition’. A special event: symposium devoted to Daniel Dennett’s newest book. The deadline for abstract submission is …
Fabian Dorsch, an Associate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, died unexpectedly on February 21 at the impossibly young age of 42. As anyone who knew him could attest, Fabian kept enormously busy as a philosopher, and it was amazing how well he juggled his numerous writing …
Plants have minds because their activities disclose a world of things that have significance for them. Following Evan Thompson, we can call this an enactive approach to plant minds. What is it to disclose a world of things that have significance? Focus on the most familiar case of a thing …
Reading my two previous posts, you might complain that perceiving and remembering require concepts, ideas, or even thoughts, which are basically representations, and plants don’t have those, so they don’t perceive or remember. For the same reason, you might add, they don’t have minds. Do plants have representations? Phototropism can …
