“Thinking the Unthinkable”
Another discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas, featuring Simon Saunders, Mark Rowlands, and Hannah Dawson: Watch more videos on iai.tv
Recent Work by Brains Contributors
The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers in February. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Berit Brogaard (forthcoming). An Empirically-Informed Cognitive Theory of Propositions. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard, Eddy Nahmias, Chandra Sripada & Lisa Ross (2014). The Free Will Inventory: Measuring Beliefs About Agency and Responsibility. Consciousness and Cognition 25:27-41. …
CFA: Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences and Psychology at AAP
As part of this year’s Australasian Association of Philosophy meeting (6th-11th July, Australian National University) The Australasian Society for Cognitive Science will be coordinating a stream Advances in Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences and Psychology. In recent decades philosophers taking a rigorously naturalistic approach to the mind (broadly treating minds …
On being conscious to yourself
Another guest post by Bill Skaggs, whose earlier contribution generated some nice discussion. – JS *** Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting aspect of the etymology that …
CFA: Conference on Free Will at UM-Flint
“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” — Martin Luther “[M]en believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza We have an intuitive …
Conference on “Conscious Thought and Thought About Consciousness”
At the University of Mississippi, April 27-30. Details at https://sites.google.com/site/olemissconsciousnessconference/.
Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine
21-22, November 2014 Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260 Summary: The goal of this conference is to address the crisis in psychiatric research and treatment by exploring the ways in which the mind-brain dualism can be overcome in contemporary psychiatry. We invite the submission …