Another guest post by Bill Skaggs, whose earlier contribution generated some nice discussion. – JS *** Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting aspect of the etymology that …
“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” — Martin Luther “[M]en believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza We have an intuitive …
At the University of Mississippi, April 27-30. Details at https://sites.google.com/site/olemissconsciousnessconference/.
21-22, November 2014 Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260 Summary: The goal of this conference is to address the crisis in psychiatric research and treatment by exploring the ways in which the mind-brain dualism can be overcome in contemporary psychiatry. We invite the submission …
As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is February 3 to April 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
I’m very pleased to say that my FSU colleague Al Mele has won the APA’s 2013 Sanders Book Prize for Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (OUP, 2010). From the APA’s site: The Sanders Book Prize will be awarded to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology …
The Brains blog’s founder has been honored with the 2014 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. He will give a keynote speech at the IACP’s 2014 conference.
