Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 April 21-26, 2014, Tucson, Arizona The 20th Anniversary Conference Speakers will include: Ned Block, David Chalmers, Karl Deisseroth, Daniel Dennett, David Eagleman, Rebecca Goldstein, Stuart Hameroff, Christof Koch, Henry Markram, John Searle, Petra Stoerig, Giulio Tononi and many more. …
An interesting discussion at New APPS, spurred by the following list: Lycan and Prinz, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (3rd ed., 2008) has three texts by women (one of them co-written with a man) among 56 chapters. Heil, Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology (2004) has five texts by …
January 9-10, 2014 University of Leeds Confirmed speakers: Alex Byrne, M.G.F. Martin, Susanna Schellenberg Organisers: Heather Logue, Jason Leddington Contemporary philosophy of perception is dominated by two views of the nature of perceptual experience: Naïve Realism (also known as the Relational View) and Intentionalism (also known as the Representational View). …
Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to present at the first annual Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference (to be held at the University of Tampa from Friday October 18th-Sunday October 20th, 2013) is approaching. This conference will be unique in several respects:
A massive June edition at Siris.
PhD position ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’ Faculty of Social Sciences Vacancy number: 24.21.13 Closing date: 14 July 2013 This PhD project aims to advance our understanding of the computational foundations of probabilistic inference and learning in the brain. According to current theory, even only approximately computing probabilistic …
Continuing my theme of attempting easily digestible write ups of my papers here are some thoughts on the delusion somatoparaphrenia… If I know anything at all surely I know that my hand is my hand and not someone else’s. Actually on that, I remember once as an undergrad, when getting frustrated in …
