CfP: PHLINC2: Language and Other Minds

CALL FOR PAPERS PHLINC 2: LANGUAGE AND OTHER MINDS https://phling.umd.edu/symposia/phlinc2.html Invited speakers: Mandy Simons and Jason Stanley Special discussion led by Shevaun Lewis February 14th – 15th, 2014 University of Maryland PHLING, a research group of students and faculty from the departments of linguistics and philosophy at the University of …

CFP: “Mental Illness and Power”

CALL FOR PROPOSALS “Mental Illness and Power” A Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee February 21-22, 2014 Keynote Speaker: David Goodman (Lesley University) Deadline for proposals: November 15th, 2013 Contact e-mail: memphispgsa@gmail.com This and more information available online at: https://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/pgsa_2014.php

CFP: St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality

May 18 – 20, 2014 Moonrise Hotel in St. Louis, MO Keynote Speaker: John Broome (Oxford) St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an anonymized abstract of 750-1500 words by January 4, 2014 to SLACRR@gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please …

Aristotle’s Illusion and The Peripheral Mind

In the first section of chapter 7 of The Peripheral Mind, I discuss Aristotle’s Illusion, a tactile-proprioceptive illusion that is very easy to replicate by crossing two of your hand fingers, and touching the region thus created between the fingertips with a cylindrical object. Most people report that they feel …

Philosophical Explorations Virtual Special Issue on Self-Knowledge

The editors of Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action have recently put together a virtual special issue of articles on self-knowledge published in the journal during its first 15 years. Included are papers by Lisa Bortolotti, Thor Grünbaum, Andy Hamilton, Cynthia Macdonald, Catriona Mackenzie, Johannes Roessler, and …

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