Dr. Young’s research explores the neural and cognitive underpinnings of moral judgment and social cognition. For more on the SPP’s Stanton Prize, including a list of past winners, see https://www.socphilpsych.org/prizes.html.
As I discussed earlier, two faculty members at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland were fired earlier this week for “disloyalty” to the institution. For the latest on this story, use the Google. Nearly 8,000 academics have signed a statement of protest calling for the faculty to be reinstated. What’s needed now are …
Many of you know that I taught for several years at Mount St. Mary’s University, where Thane Naberhaus, a (tenured) professor of philosophy, was abruptly fired yesterday afternoon for his role in opposing a plan to dismiss at-risk freshmen in their first semester of college. For more on the story, …
This is a friendly reminder that submissions for the 2016 Minds Online Conference, to be held at the Brains blog during the month of September, are due on Monday, February 15. The confirmed keynote speakers are Ellen Fridland (King’s College, London) and Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University). We invite the submission of papers …
Knowing is a state of mind that can’t be wrong. If anyone knows that p, then p must be the case. My last post raised the question of why adults attribute that state of mind so heavily, in their ordinary descriptions and explanations of agency, rather than relying on what …
My first post in this series observed that (if usage is any guide) adults attribute knowledge an awful lot. My most recent post hinted that knowledge attribution might be a necessary bridge to reach belief attribution in the course of children’s development, and ended by raising the puzzle of why …
Below are links to several calls for papers that are likely of interest to our readers. Please follow the links for further details: Collective Intentionality X, to be held at The Hague, Netherlands, August 31 – September 2, 2016. Submissions (abstracts only) are due by May 15. Memory and Social …
