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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Self and Agency: Phenomenological Approaches 8th Annual Research Seminar in Phenomenology 2014 Tuesday, April 22 2014 CET – Friday, April 25 2014 CET University of Liège Liège, Belgium Presentation: This year the topic of the seminar is the relationship between the self and agency.
