CFA: The Science of Consciousness
Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Formerly, ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness’) April 25-30, 2016 Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona
#MindsOnline 2015, Session 1: Social Cognition
The Minds Online conference has begun, and our first session will be open for discussion through September 4. It is on the theme of Social Cognition, and includes the following papers: Tony Jack and Jared Friedman (Case Western Reserve): “Mapping cognitive structure onto the landscape of philosophical debate: an empirical framework …
Minds Online 2015: The conference is complete!
The 2015 Minds Online conference is now completed, but the papers and comments from all four of our sessions are still available at the conference site. Many thanks for your participation!
CFP: Robustness in Neurological Systems
Call for Posters Robustness in Neurological Systems 13 – 15 November, 2015 Center for Philosophy of Science 817 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA This workshop is designed to maximize productive interaction in large and small groups among scientists and philosophers, faculty, and graduate students. We will …
Neuroethics Symposium on Focquaert & Schermer, “Moral Enhancement: Do Means Matter Morally?”
I am pleased to kick off our new symposium series on articles published in the journal Neuroethics with a discussion of Farah Focquaert and Maartje Schermer’s paper “Moral Enhancement: Do Means Matter Morally?” Below you will find a video introduction of the paper by the authors, together with a written introduction that …
Which Theory of Mind? – And other questions
In my final post I would like to wrap up by sketching some of the implications of my proposal – in particular concerning our theorizing about social cognition – as well as raising some questions that are being left open. There exists quite a large controversy in philosophy and psychology …
Next Week’s Neuroethics Symposium
Next Wednesday (August 26th) our first symposium on papers published in the journal Neuroethics will go live. Our discussion will focus on a great paper by Farah Focquaert and Maartje Schermer titled “Moral Enhancement: Do means matter morally?” We hope to generate a lively discussion around the authors’ central claim …