Just a quick note that I recently published an article in The Philosophical Forum , “A New Theory of Free Will“, that may be of interest to readers (a free PDF of the penultimate draft is available here). Here’s the abstract: This paper shows that several live philosophical and scientific hypotheses – including …
No word yet on possible funding for philosophers: The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics. The project, which …
Grenada, Spain 9th-12th July, 2013 Deadline for Submissions: 15 March 2013 Keynote speakers: Katherine Nelson (CUNY) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) Michael Martin (UCL/Berkeley) Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) There will be five invited symposia on the following topics:
The Fifth Online Consciousness Conference is now underway! It will run until March 1st so stop by and join in the fun!
In my most recent paper, we report on work in which we trained rats to discriminate among infrared (IR) light sources (normally invisible to the rat). We coupled the output of a head-mounted IR detector to microstimulators in the whisker region of primary somatosensory cortex. The rats initally respond to …
CALL FOR PAPERS, 2nd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING (HaPoC 2013) 28th – 31st October 2013 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. with a special session on “Computing and the Arts” at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs https://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org We are happy to announce that the 2nd International …
Liz Irvine’s book, “Consciousness as a Scientific Concept,” is the first book published in the Springer book series Studies in Brain and Mind under its newish editor-in-chief and editorial board.While the hardback is fairly expensive at $99, a little known feature of Springer is that paperback copies of their books may …
