Philosophers’ Carnival #150
A special sesquicentmensial edition, compiled by Eric Schwitzgebel.
CFP: The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Special Issue of Topoi
apologies for x-postings CFP: The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Special Issue of Topoi In addition to the below CFP we are also seeking to expand our pool of reviewers for this issue. If you are available to review a paper please contact the guest editors named below. Much work in …
More on the Obama administration’s brain-mapping initiative
Here: President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, senior administration officials said Monday. A senior administration scientist compared the new initiative to the Human Genome Project, in that it …
Consciousness and the Soul
Nicholas Humphrey and Galen Strawson take on the big questions in a debate hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas .
Synthese Issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy — 2013 and 2014
The journal Synthese publishes a yearly issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. In recent years, this has been perhaps the highest profile venue explicitly devoted to articles in the philosophy of neuroscience. For example, two papers published in the 2011 issue have already been anthologized. The 2013 is mostly full …
Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"
This is my first ‘real’ blog post, and before I begin, I’d like to thank John for inviting me to contribute to this blog (and apologize for the fact that it’s taken me while to get around to doing so). Many thanks for giving me this opportunity! I have recently …
CFP: What is cognition?
Workshop on “What is cognition?” in Bochum, June 27-29, 2013 The workshop invites contributions exploring any and all issues that can move us toward an answer to the question, “what is cognition?”. Contributions are welcome to address a particular view already championed in the literature or bring forward original suggestions …