In the previous post, I introduced some questions at the center of my current book project, concerning the boundary between the mental and the non-mental. In this post I sketch that project in very broad outline. Many thanks for the useful comments about my list of 5 characteristics that are …
The Centre for Advanced Studies in Göttingen, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, invites applications for Early Career Fellowships for the period from October 2015 to July 2017 in a group of philosophers working on conceptual and foundational issues concerning primate cognition. The group will be closely related to a newly established research cluster …
I’m delighted to be guest blogging here at Brains. My plan for my series of posts here is to introduce the set of questions at the center of my current project; shamelessly exploit the brilliant readers of this blog for my own purposes invite others to weigh in on these …
I am happy to be introducing Brie Gertler, who will be guest-blogging as a featured scholar here at Brains beginning this week. Brie received her PhD from Brown University in 1997 and is currently Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in the philosophy …
Hong Yu Wong and his group are organizing an interdisciplinary action summer school in Tübingen (4/20-4/25). Graduate students and younger scholars in the cognitive science and philosophy of action are encouraged to apply. Details are available here: https://www.cinphilosophyandneuroscience.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool-on-action.php
In my final post here, I would like to present some material from the final chapter of The First Sense on pleasant touch. Perceptual experience is often more than merely descriptive or informational; it is also often evaluative and motivational. Offering an account of this component is critical to our understanding …
Touch seems like a paradigm contact sense. In order to experience things through touch it seems necessary that we be in direct contact with them. I argue that this is false. We can and often do experience things not in direct (or even apparent) contact with our bodies. We do …
