CFP: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015
University of Helsinki, Finland, 9–13 June 2015 Pre-conference workshops: 8 June 2015 https://www.helsinki.fi/tsc2015 Submission deadline: 30 November 2014 Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum …
New feature: “Inline Comments”
I’ve just installed a lovely new plug-in that makes it possible to append your comments not just to the bottom of a post, but to the particular paragraph that you’re interested in discussing. To do this, just hover over the paragraph in question, and look for the little “talk” box, like …
New Book: The Biological Mind
One of the most neglected perspectives in traditional philosophy of mind/cogsci is that the mind is a biological system, and that therefore philosophy of mind/cogsci is a branch of philosophy of biology. Fortunately, Justin Garson has just published The Biological Mind (Routledge), an introduction to the philosophy of mind that …
An excellent profile of Felipe De Brigard
… at Duke Today. An excerpt: De Brigard believes that our considerations of what actually happened, what could have happened and what might happen are closely linked in our brains because these kinds of mental simulations are likely to allow us to rehearse ways the world could be. He think’s it’s …
CFP: Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The 107th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in New Orleans, April 2-4, 2015. The deadline for submissions is December 15. To submit, visit https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sspp2015.
Modeling and the autonomy of psychology
Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets, how models relate to simulations and theories, and how models are validated and verified.