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.
My paper with Edward Cokely entitled “Predicting Philosophical Disagreement” is now out in Philosophy Compass. It puts in one accessible piece the work we’ve done over the past several years showing that heritable personality traits predict disagreement in a number of philosophical domains, even among verifiable experts. In the article …
If you have a good paper and would like a quick publication, the Journal of Cognitive Science is an international interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal that is looking for philosophy contributions (as well as contributions in other cognitive science disciplines). It guarantees a super-fast turnaround time from submission to decision, and …
