The Department of Philosophy at Florida State University is currently accepting applications for a one year post-doctoral Fellowship, beginning Fall 2016. We are looking for philosophers with a special interest in self-control. AOS: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, or Ethics. The Fellow is expected to teach four courses per …
In this post I will try to lay out my own account of what emotions are in a nutshell. The claim that emotions are embodied, roughly speaking, is that emotions involve bodily reactions and that these bodily reactions realize, or constitute, a kind of intelligent behavior, or interaction, with the …
Alex Carruth (Durham) discusses that question in a post at the OUP Blog, building on a recent paper in The Philosophical Quarterly, which — for now — is freely available. A few key paragraphs: … we can form a picture a human being in our heads, and say to ourselves ‘and it …
Many thanks to John who invited me to blog about my book Embodied Emotions this week. The book explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that aims to account for their normative dimensions within a naturalist framework. I will come back to what that all …
Or something like that: Changing someone’s opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone’s opinions are formed and whether and how someone’s views shift. Fortunately, ChangeMyView, an active community on Reddit, provides …
I am very pleased to say that after a rather quiet start to 2016 we have a lot of interesting content lined up for the next few months at Brains. In April we will host our next two journal symposia: From April 6-10, on Kevin Tobia‘s “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, …
Warsaw, June 23-26, 2016 The aim of the workshop is to discuss the recent work on mechanistic explanation, with special stress on particular problems of integration of multiple mechanistic models, robustness, and unification of partial explanations, theories and fields. There is a growing consensus that cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience …
