It’s an old question: what is consciousness? Today, sophisticated brain imaging technologies, clinical studies, as well as the newfound ability to listen to the whisper of even an individual nerve cell, are bringing scientists closer than ever to the neurobiological basis of consciousness. Join some of the world’s leading researchers …
Dear Readers of the Brains Blog: I’m in the final stages of writing the chapter on the phenomenology of attention for a book on attention for Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532242/ I thought I would both encourage general discussion of issues regarding attention and also solicit feedback on the text, parts of which …
North Carolina State University’s Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative (LACSI) is hosting a conference on Concepts on September 20-21, 2013. The speakers are Christopher Hill (Philosophy, Brown University), Edouard Machery (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh), Eric Margolis (Philosophy, University of British Columbia), Gregory Murphy (Psychology, New York …
The symposium on Louise Richardson’s paper “Flavour, Taste and Smell”, with commentaries by Fiona MacPherson, Mohan Matthen, Matt Nudds, and Barry C. Smith, will begin on June 6. Louise’s paper will be made freely available when the June issue of Mind & Language is published, but until then an advance …
Olfactory Consciousness across Disciplines Frontiers in Consciousness Research Topic Editors: Benjamin D. Young, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Andreas Keller, Rockefeller University and CUNY, The Graduate Center, USA Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Jul 2013 Deadline for full article submission: 30 Aug 2013
… about their edited volume on human nature, recently released by Routledge.
Call for Papers Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013) 12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy Organizers: Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo) & Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford) Website: https://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013 In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely …
