Active or haptic touch typically involves externally directed experiences of things in the world. We experience through touch tables, chairs, breezes, cups, dogs, microwaves, even other people. Such experiences are directed at ordinary material objects and their properties, just like vision is typically directed at external objects and their features …
First let me thank the wonderful people here at Brains for asking me to blog over the next couple of weeks. I’m really looking forward to it. I was recently asked to summarize my philosophical interests and approach in a single sentence. I was put on the spot, but I …
I’m very glad to be introducing Matthew Fulkerson, who will contribute several featured posts at the Brains blog beginning this week. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 2012. Prior to that he was a …
This is a reminder that submissions for the first annual Minds Online Conference, which will be held at the Brains blog next September, are due on February 15. To submit your work, please visit https://philosophyofbrains.com/minds-online-2015-submissions. The conference will feature invited talks by Tony Jack (Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University), …
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
… is at Nick Byrd’s blog.
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 …
