Interview with Mike Martin (UCL/Berkeley)
In Filosofisk Supplement, the undergraduate philosophy journal at the University of Oslo.
Advice on construing empirically-based arguments for a “generalist” audience?
A reader of the Brains blog wrote me the other day concerning a referee report he’d received on a submission to a top “generalist” journal. (See here if you don’t understand the rationale for my punctuation practices.) Despite praising the article overall and saying that it probably warranted publication, the …
Get a PhD in both Philosophy AND Psychology
Yale just created a new program in which graduate students can get a single degree that counts as a PhD in both philosophy and psychology. The basic idea is that students take courses in both departments and then write a single interdisciplinary dissertation. On completing the degree, students should be in …
CFP: Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind
The Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind is an annual essay competition open to scholars who are within fifteen (15) years of receiving a Ph.D. and students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program. Independent scholars may also be eligible and should direct inquiries to David Sosa, editor …
New book on Computability
Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (eds. Jack Copeland, Carl Posy, Oron Shagrir) recently published with MIT (2013). *** Computability and Brains have a shared history. Computability was initiated with a conference held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in 2006. The conference was organized by the editors of Computability, and …
On the Horizon at Brains
Many thanks to those who have participated in the Butterfill and Apperly symposium, which will remain open for at least a few more days. Blogging at Brains will likely get quiet over the holidays, but I’m pleased to say that beginning next week, Oron Shagrir of the Hebrew University of …
CFP: 2014 Georgetown University Philosophy Conference: Emotions and Emotionality
Submission deadline: Saturday, February 1 2014 EST Conference date(s): Saturday, April 12 2014 EST Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University Washington, United States Details “But, oh, to get involved in the exchange / Of human emotions / Is ever so, ever so satisfying.” – Bjork, “Human Behaviour” After decades of neglect, the …