The U.S. Office of Naval Research is funding a $7.5 million grant to build robots with morals. Philosophy gets a mention in the opening line, but after that, it seems to be seen as an engineering problem. Also, we are talking here about the U.S. military, so color me pessimistic. [Update: Though please …
Below are a few upcoming CFPs for special issues of journals that I thought might be of issue to Brains readers: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly: Is Perceptual Experience Disunified? (Deadline: June 1, 2014) Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (Deadline: September 15, 2014) Frontiers in Consciousness Research: Perception-Cognition Interface & …
A donor has given $7.7 million to the University of Michigan to fund an institute in cognitive science. Here’s another excellent reply to Neil deGraase Tyson’s remarks on philosophy, this time from Massimo Pigliucci. (h/t Daily Nous) Should we move beyond blame? Barbara H. Fried and other philosophers discuss. (h/t Kyle Fritz on …
The 163rd Philosophers’ Carnival is here. NYU’s David Amodio in Mother Jones on our racist brains. (h/t Robert Barnard on Facebook) Eric Schwitzgebel asks: Is early publication bad for philosophy? (h/t Eric S. on Facebook) Is there mathematical “proof” that computers can’t be conscious?* (h/t Don Howard on Facebook) German neuroscientists have …
I’m happy to have a couple of announcements to add to those I made last week: First, the visit of Jakob Hohwy (Monash) as a Featured Scholar will begin June 15. You can read more about Jakob and his work here. Second, following the symposium later this month on Philipp Koralus’ …
More links below. Keep them coming! — JS Slate‘s Sam Kean on the true story of frontal lobe patient Phineas Gage (h/t LeiterReports) In the same vein, Kean again, this time in Wired magazine, on what happens when a surgeon removes your hippocampus (h/t David Pereplyotchik on Facebook) Claire Wilson in …
Below are some links that I thought would be of interest to readers of the Brains blog. I intend to start publishing posts like this with some frequency, but am not a great surfer of the Internet, so feel free to share links in the comments, or pass them along …
