Michael Brownstein has written a very thorough post at the Feminist Philosophers blog discussing a widely publicized study by Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci that’s supposed to show that women are favored over men in academic hiring. Here is Michael’s summary of his argument: (a) participants in W&C’s study know that this is …
The 41st annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina from June 4-6, 2015, with a pre-conference workshop, welcome reception, and poster session on Wednesday, June 3. Registration is now open at the SPP website. The program is not yet …
… at New Books in Philosophy. (I taught Wayne’s book in an undergraduate course last semester, and learned a lot from it. You can buy it here, and here are a few posts about the book from Wayne’s stint as a Featured Scholar in 2013.)
Let me begin by thanking John Schwenkler for the invitation to blog here at Brains. I’m not really a specialist in philosophy of mind (or in, well, anything) but a lot of my recent work is concerned with mind-y (and brain-y) issues. I find it hard to get excited about …
Together with my co-organizers Cameron Buckner and Nick Byrd, I am very pleased to announce the selection of papers for the first annual Minds Online Conference, which will be held at the Brains blog in September 2015. The conference will comprise four weeklong sessions, organized as described below. Further information, including …
It is my pleasure to introduce Neil Levy as the current Featured Scholar at the Brains blog, where he’ll contribute a series of posts over this week and the next. Neil is a Futures Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He is based in the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne as well as …
I will conclude this series of posts by saying something about why I think cognitive phenomenology is significant. The basic idea is that phenomenology in general is connected to epistemology, value theory, and semantics via the notion of awareness, and cognitive phenomenology in particular is connected to these areas via …
