Another IAI forum, with Steve Fuller, Iain McGilchrist, and Roger Penrose:
CFP: “Social Minds” Philosophy Graduate Conference
The Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to announce the Social Minds Philosophy Graduate Conference, which will take place on April 18th and 19th, 2015. Keynote presentations will be given by Bryce Huebner (Georgetown) and Tad Zawidzki (George Washington). Graduate students are invited to submit …
Decomposing the hierarchy of thought
Like other social animals, humans are status-conscious creatures, obsessed with hierarchy and rankings. This is obvious in the realm of finance, the entertainment industry, and academic reputation-chasing, but it also turns up in the more staid realms of theory. Psychology and ethology make frequent reference to the distinction between the …
CFP: 2015 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
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Keeping concepts in context
Conceptual pluralism is the view for any category that we can think about, we typically possess many different concepts of it—that is, many different ways of representing that category in higher cognition. Different kinds of concepts encode their own specific perspective on the target category, and each one can be …
Representational pluralism: A brief taxonomy
Thanks very much to Kristina and John for inviting me to post here at Brains. I’m hoping to take this opportunity to revisit and update a few past themes in my research, and sketch some lines of inquiry that I’m either pursuing now or hope to take up in the …
Introducing Dan Weiskopf
I am pleased to introduce Dan Weiskopf as our next Featured Scholar. Dan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, as well as an associate faculty member in the Neuroscience Institute.