Carrie Figdor interviews Anne Jaap Jacobson
… in a podcast at New Books in Philosophy. The interview concerns Jacobson’s Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Science of the Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Interview with Mary Midgley on consciousness and the limits of physical science
… at iai News. An excerpt: The physical sciences have been so extraordinarily successful in their own sphere of late that people tend now to expect them to be applicable everywhere. Enlightenment thinking has built up a general optimism about human capacities which centres at present on what is called …
CFP: Reciprocity and Social Cognition
CALL FOR POSTERS AND FLASH TALKS Reciprocity and Social Cognition Symposium Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 23rd-25th March 2015 Submissions close: October 1st 2014 Notifications sent: October 15th 2014 For more details, please see our website: https://www.mind-and-brain.de/postdoctoral-program/scientific-events/reciprocity-and-social-cognition/ The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is pleased to announce …
Mele and Nahmias on Free Will and Science
… at Philosophy TV.
Templeton Foundation Call for Grant Proposals
As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
Two takes on consciousness
David Chalmers at TED on the hard problem; Eric Schwitzgebel at his blog on a possible problem for Giulio Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory.
Philosophers’ Carnival #166
… is at Philosophical Disquisitions.