This is a very nice essay (h/t to Shannon Spaulding on Facebook), with many things relevant to the discussion in the comments to Cameron Buckner’s post from last month. An excerpt: I had (naively, as it turns out) assumed that having more than a quarter century of experience in science, but also …
The Fifth Summer School in Cognitive Sciences : Web Science and the Mind Organized by the UQAM Cognitive Science Institute in Montréal (Canada), from July 7th to 18th Theme of the Summer Institute: Web Science and the Mind This summer school will present a comprehensive overview of the interactions between …
Sam Barker at the Institute for Art and Ideas asked me to share some information about a very cool looking philosophy festival that will be held this summer in the UK. He writes: HowTheLightGetsIn is the world’s largest philosophy festival taking place Hay-on-Wye in the UK this summer from 22nd May – 1st …
Call for Papers: The 30th Annual Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Neurons, Mechanisms, and the Mind: The History and Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience October 10–12, 2014, at the University of Colorado at Boulder Our developing understanding of the mind depends extensively on neural data collected by fMRI, EEG, …
… at Aesthetics for Birds, with lots of really excellent content this month.
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space and time and mind! The first episode is up now (and has been …
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) is hosting a Summer School from the 11th to the 25th of August 2014 devoted to the Free Will problem led by the world renowned expert Prof. John Martin Fischer. Graduate students and young PhDs are welcome to take part in the “Free Will and …
