I am very excited to announce that in addition to the symposia on papers from Mind & Language that we have hosted since 2013, beginning in the coming months the Brains blog will host regular symposia on papers from Ergo and Neuroethics: The Ergo symposia, which will be organized by students in the graduate department …
By Justin Broackes I expect everyone’s heartily tired now of the Dress … But I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and with an artist-designer friend in London, Hilary Brown, I started thinking of ways to illustrate what was going on. So here are a few images — note that all …
Conference dates: Fri., Sept. 11 – Sat., Sept. 12, 2015 Keynote Speaker: Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston) Prof. Nadelhoffer’s main areas of research include free will, moral psychology, neuroethics, and punishment theory. We invite submissions for paper or poster presentations on any topic pertaining to experimental philosophy. Submissions can report new experimental …
Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State) is the editor of Emotion Researcher, the online newsletter of the International Society for Research on Emotion. The most recent issue includes an interview with Dan Kelly (Purdue), discussing his work on disgust. Here’s a bit from Dan’s description of his research: I often find myself searching …
Before offering some final words, I want to thank the editors for inviting me to share my thoughts this week about The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being. A quick recap of the week’s events:
The network theory explains well-being in purely descriptive terms. But well-being is normative. Tim’s well-being is intrinsically valuable for Tim. Can a purely descriptive theory of well-being account for normativity, for the value of well-being? I’m going to assume that the evidence of science and intuition strongly support the network …
If you were going to describe someone who has a high degree of well-being, it might go something like this: “Felicity is in a happy and fulfilling committed relationship, she has close and caring friends, she keeps fit by playing tennis, a sport she enjoys, and her professional life is …
