Introducing Lisa Bortolotti
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.
New Podcast: Detecting Awareness With Brain Imaging
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. …
Upcoming Events at Brains
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 …
Recent Work by Brains Contributors
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 …
CFP: Mental Actions and Mental Agency
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 …
CFA: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014
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. …
Should there be more texts by women authors in philosophy of mind anthologies?
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 …