… at Duke Today. An excerpt: De Brigard believes that our considerations of what actually happened, what could have happened and what might happen are closely linked in our brains because these kinds of mental simulations are likely to allow us to rehearse ways the world could be. He think’s it’s …
The 107th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in New Orleans, April 2-4, 2015. The deadline for submissions is December 15. To submit, visit https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sspp2015.
Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets, how models relate to simulations and theories, and how models are validated and verified.
Another IAI forum, with Steve Fuller, Iain McGilchrist, and Roger Penrose:
The Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to announce the Social Minds Philosophy Graduate Conference, which will take place on April 18th and 19th, 2015. Keynote presentations will be given by Bryce Huebner (Georgetown) and Tad Zawidzki (George Washington). Graduate students are invited to submit …
Like other social animals, humans are status-conscious creatures, obsessed with hierarchy and rankings. This is obvious in the realm of finance, the entertainment industry, and academic reputation-chasing, but it also turns up in the more staid realms of theory. Psychology and ethology make frequent reference to the distinction between the …
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