Call for Abstracts for Poster Presentations Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Workshop University of Western Ontario April 15-17, 2016 Workshop Description: This workshop will focus on an emerging research project in the cognitive neurosciences wherein the traditional scientific approach of using psychological investigations to enhance our understanding of the brain …
This looks like a terrific program (note that it is only for the recently tenured): The John Templeton Foundation invites applications for its Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program beginning November 9, 2015, with fellowships to begin Fall 2017. The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and …
Imperativism works well for sprained ankles. Pains are a diverse bunch, though, and pain science presents a number of interesting cases. Much of my book is taken up with defusing potential counterexamples. These fall into three classes, which I’ll take in order of seriousness.
The International Conference on Thinking is now accepting submissions. Date: August 4-6, 2016 (Note: The Cognitive Science Society conference will be in Philadelphia the following week). Location: Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Submission deadline: 31st of March 2016 at 23:59 GMT This conference brings cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers, decision-making researchers, and …
The George Washington University Department of Philosophy is very happy to announce its new M.A. in Philosophy. This new graduate program complements our longstanding and highly successful M.A. in Philosophy and Social Policy. The GW Department of Philosophy’s pluralist faculty spans both analytic and continental traditions, and the new M.A. …
Over the past two days, I’ve sketched a picture of pains. Pains are imperatives which express commands which, when obeyed, motivate you to solve problems pertaining to bodily integrity. That fits nicely with a broad story about the bodily sensations and their role. You might think this is missing something …
Yesterday I gave a broad outline of the view in my book. But why be an imperativist? I came to imperativism via reflection on the biological function of pain. Most accounts treat pain as a signal of damage. That has always seemed wrong to me — both false to experience and …
