Helen De Cruz posted the following query to Facebook, and I told her I would share it here: Would there be a potential niche for a specialist x-phi journal? There’s enough momentum – definitely x-phi should still be published in mainstream journals but then, say, philosophers of biology have benefited …
Welcome to our second Brains Blog symposium on papers published in the journal Neuroethics. Our target paper for this symposium is Kevin Tobia’s (Yale University) “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics.” Below you will find an introduction to the symposium and brief précis of the paper, followed by commentaries written …
Owning our emotions: Emotion, authenticity and the self 21st to 22nd September 2016 The Senate House, London Keynote speakers include: Professor Kristján Kristjánsson, University of Birmingham Professor Denis McManus, University of Southampton Professor Monika Betzler, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich Dr Jonathan Webber, University of Cardiff Professor Fabrice Teroni, University of Geneva How …
Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest Editors Alexandre Billon (Université de Lille Nord de France) Francesca Garbarini (Università degli Studi di Torino) Invited Contributors José Luis Bermudez (Texas A&M University) Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide) Daniele Romano (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Schedule Submission Deadline: September 1st …
In advance of this week’s online symposium, our second on papers published in the journal Neuroethics, Springer has kindly agreed to make our target paper “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics” open access. The paper presents an experiment suggesting that not just magnitude of change but also direction of …
As I laid out in Wednesday’s post, on my view emotions are about affordances that are of instrumental value for us. When we are afraid, we represent something as a danger-to-be-avoided. Since I take danger to be a relational property that constitutes the affordance in question, it might be hard …
In my first post on Monday, I mentioned that emotions have a complex normative dimension and that noncognitive accounts do not pay enough attention to the normativity of emotions. Embodied accounts (as I argued in yesterday’s post) explain quite nicely the central role that internal arousal, bodily postures, and facial …
