Classical explanations of social cognition assume that complex social interaction involves social understanding and that social understanding in turn depends on the ability to read others’ minds, i.e. on the ability to attribute mental states, such as beliefs and desires, to others for the purposes of predicting and explaining their …
Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Call for papers: Conference on intentions, University of Antwerp, December 10-11, 2014. Topic: There are so many kinds of intentions: proximal, distal, immediate, prior, ‘-in-action’, present-directed, future-directed, motor, etc. How are they connected to each other and what role do they play in …
Third Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: Unconscious perception in (contemporary, analytic) philosophy of perception. Eligibility: The Essay Prize is open to those who received their PhD after May 2006 or who are PhD students. Length: 3000 words. Single spaced! Deadline: November 1, 2014. …
… at 3:am Magazine.
… in a podcast at New Books in Philosophy. The interview concerns Jacobson’s Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Science of the Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
… at iai News. An excerpt: The physical sciences have been so extraordinarily successful in their own sphere of late that people tend now to expect them to be applicable everywhere. Enlightenment thinking has built up a general optimism about human capacities which centres at present on what is called …
CALL FOR POSTERS AND FLASH TALKS Reciprocity and Social Cognition Symposium Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 23rd-25th March 2015 Submissions close: October 1st 2014 Notifications sent: October 15th 2014 For more details, please see our website: https://www.mind-and-brain.de/postdoctoral-program/scientific-events/reciprocity-and-social-cognition/ The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is pleased to announce …
