Male/Female Student Ratio in Philosophy Ph.D. Programs
My student Mike Sigler collected these data and gave me permission to share them.
Frances Egan on Vimeo: "How to think about mental content"
Brains people interested in representational and computational theories of mind will be interested in this talk by Frances Egan, which is coming out soon in Philosophical Studies. If you post questions or comments in the next week or so, Frances will try to respond to them.
Two New Releases
#1 Title: Why It Doesn’t Matter to Metaphysics What Mary Learns Artist(s): Robert Cummins, Martin Roth, Ian Harmon Label: Philosophical Studies (here) Release Date: February, 2013 Genre: Hardcore philosophy of mind #2 Title: Folk Psychology as Science Artist: Martin Roth Label: Synthese (here) Release Date: December, 2012 Genre: Post-punk philosophy …
Delusions of Thought Insertion and the Sense of Agency, or Disorder's of Self-Consciousness part 2
and this was attempt number 2: So here is a weird thing to say: I look out of the window and I think that the garden looks nice and the grass looks cool, but the thoughts of Eamon Andrews come into my mind. There are no other thoughts there, only …
Delusions of Alien Control and the Sense of Agency (disorders of self consciousness pt1)
Lately I’ve decided that it’s time to try and make my work comprehensible to laypeople. Here is attempt number 1. Cross posted at idontknowwhatiam Hello all I like to think that I have been taking the idea of the philosopher as public servant seriously. This is perhaps grounded in an …
Job at King's
Looks like a great opportunity: The Philosophy Department at King’s College London is seeking an outstanding philosopher with research expertise and teaching experience in philosophy of mind and/or philosophy of psychology. This is a three-year fixed term appointment, starting from September 2013. Further information can be found here:
Rosenthal's Challenge to Phenomenal Concepts
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Like I don’t have enough going on over at this year’s Online Consciousness Conference (which is still in session until Friday March 1st) I have been sitting in on David Rosenthal’s class at the Graduate Center on Mental Qualities (previous post here). Today he presented an …