First of all, my thanks to John for a very generous introduction. I’m glad to be blogging on Brains when I’m about to start a brand new project. Come September, I’ll be on an AHRC Fellowship exploring the possibility that, in some contexts, cognitions with obvious epistemic pitfalls (such as …
I am getting ready to head out to San Diego for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 17th Annual meeting. I have organized a symposium on the Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Conscious Experience which will feature talks by Rafi Malach, Joe Levine, Doby Rahnev, and me! …
I’m honored to be able to introduce Lisa Bortolotti, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, as the first philosopher to discuss her work as a featured scholar here at Brains.
As John mentioned a while back, I’m starting a new podcast, The Life Of The Mind/Brain, examining issues that arise at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and society. The podcast is aimed at a general audience, but hopefully the issues discussed will be of interest to the Brains gang. …
I’m going to have a post up soon introducing Lisa Bortolotti as Brains’ featured scholar for the month of July, but in the meantime there is some more exciting news to announce. First, CMU’s Wayne Wu has agreed to be a featured scholar during the month of August, when he’ll …
The following articles by Brains contributors were posted to PhilPapers in the past month. Please let me know of any oversights! — JS Richard Brown (2013). Chalmers’ “Unholy Stew”: Review of Constructing the World by David Chalmers. The Philosophers’ Magazine (61):115-118. Pete Mandik (2013). What is Visual and Phenomenal but …
CALL FOR PAPERS Mental Actions and Mental Agency Special Issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest Editors: Anika Fiebich, and John Michael Deadline for Submissions: February 1st 2014 In recent decades, mental actions have been discussed intensively in the scientific debate on intentional actions. Within this debate ‘mental …
