Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry 28th ANNUAL MEETING May 14-15, 2016 Atlanta, GA Call for Abstracts PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN SCIENTIFIC PSYCHIATRY: RDOC, DSM, MECHANISMS, AND MORE Conference co-chairs: Şerife Tekin & Peter Zachar
As we move from wakefulness into sleep onset and through the different stages of sleep, there are concerted changes in brain activity, the way we process external stimuli from the environment, and in the contents and structure of conscious experience. At the same time, the exact relationship between these changes …
The Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy series, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Tania Lombrozo, Joshua Knobe, and Shaun Nichols, is now calling for papers for its second volume. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2016. For more details, see the X-Phi blog.
We all dream every night, and most of us feel reasonably certain that we know what it is like to dream. But how well do we really know the phenomenology of dreaming? Can we really be certain that in describing our dreams, we are not merely projecting implicit, pretheoretical assumptions …
We spend roughly one third of our lives asleep, and research tells us that a considerable portion of this time is spent dreaming. Yet, most of us rarely remember our dreams, and even when we do, we would be hard-pressed to describe more than a single dream per night. This …
I’m excited to say that we have now finalized the program for the first annual Minds Online Conference, which will be held at the Brains blog during the month of September 2015. Thanks for this are due in particular to my co-organizers, Cameron Buckner and Nick Byrd, as well as the …
I’m pleased to say that Bernard Molyneux’s paper “The Logic of Mind-Body Identification”, which is the first target article in our series of symposia on papers from Ergo: An Open-Access Journal of Philosophy, has now been published online. The symposium, with commentaries from István Aranyosi, Liz Irvine, and Jonathan Simon, plus a …
