Call for Papers: The 2015 Minds Online Conference

The editors of the Brains blog, together with the Departments of Philosophy at Florida State University and the University of Houston, are pleased to announce that the first annual Minds Online conference will be held at the Brains blog during the month of September, 2015. The conference will feature invited …

Which posts from the Brains blog should be considered for this year’s 3QD philosophy blogging prize?

You can nominate your favorites until the end of the day on Nov. 17, perhaps choosing from any of our featured posts by Jakob Hohwy, Kristin Andrews, Dan Weiskopf, and Susanna Siegel. Anything published since Nov. 9 of last year is fair game. However, nominations are limited to the first …

Paris Workshop on sensorimotor approach to Consciousness in July 2015

On July 4th and 5th 2015, just before the ASSC conference on Consciousness in Paris, we are organizing a workshop to discuss advances in the sensorimotor approach. All are welcome! See here for the call for papers: https://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/feel/?page_id=691

Explanatory vs. Defensive reasons

In this post I want to approach the topic of the previous post from a different angle. I raised two questions about the U&C study: whether people believe the comparative ratings (Question 1), and what inference, if any, leads them to their ultimate verdict (Question 2). Either question would be …

Rationalization, Belief, and Inference

When you were a kid, did your room ever get really messy? Of course it did. Did its messiness bother you? Quite possibly not. Lots of kids are not at all bothered by their messy rooms. (Question: Does it even look messy to them, or does it look orderly? We …

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