Is culture beyond genetics?
A video discussion with Daniel Everett, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, and Oliver Scott Curry, from the Institute for Art and Ideas: Watch more videos on iai.tv
Philosophers’ Carnival #171
… is at Nick Byrd’s blog.
CFP: Philosophical Analysis and Experimental Philosophy
Call for Papers, special issue of Discipline filosofiche Philosophical Analysis and Experimental Philosophy https://www.disciplinefilosofiche.it/?lang=en Over the last decades, a renewed interest for metaphilosophical issues has prompted many philosophers in the analytic tradition to ask questions on the epistemic status and the methodology of philosophical inquiry. Reflection has focussed especially on …
CFP: Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers 2015
The Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers 2015 will be held in Montréal, Québec, on April 17th, 2015 at Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Quebec. This one-day international conference is aimed at young researchers, trainees, and students from all fields interested in neuroethics. In addition to the …
Upcoming events at the Brains blog
Here’s what we have planned for the next two months at the Brains blog: Matthew Fulkerson (UCSD) will blog about his work, including his book The First Sense (MIT Press, 2014), beginning January 20. Brie Giertler (Virginia) will blog about her work on self-knowledge, consciousness, and more, beginning around February 1. And our …
Happy New Year from the Brains Blog!
I’m very glad to say that 2014 has been our best year ever at the Brains blog, with over 93,000 total visits, including consecutive months of 10,000+ each from October through December. Josh Knobe’s self-fulfilling post on the increased importance of experimental findings in recent philosophy of mind was the year’s …
CFP: Attention and Conscious Perception
Call for Papers/Abstracts Workshop: Attention & Conscious Perception York University, Toronto May 7-8, 2015 TOPIC Does attention alter conscious perception? For example, does visually attending to an object make it look bigger, brighter, or otherwise alter the properties that it looks to have? Psychologists have been debating these questions at …