CFP: Workshop on the Motivations for Naïve Realism

January 9-10, 2014 University of Leeds Confirmed speakers: Alex Byrne, M.G.F. Martin, Susanna Schellenberg Organisers: Heather Logue, Jason Leddington Contemporary philosophy of perception is dominated by two views of the nature of perceptual experience: Naïve Realism (also known as the Relational View) and Intentionalism (also known as the Representational View). …

Final CFP: First Annual Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference

Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to present at the first annual Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference (to be held at the University of Tampa from Friday October 18th-Sunday October 20th, 2013) is approaching. This conference will be unique in several respects:

PhD position, ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’

PhD position ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’ Faculty of Social Sciences Vacancy number: 24.21.13 Closing date: 14 July 2013 This PhD project aims to advance our understanding of the computational foundations of probabilistic inference and learning in the brain. According to current theory, even only approximately computing probabilistic …

Somatoparaphrenia: Body Schema Representation Dysfunction? Or; Disorders of self-consciousness part 4

Continuing my theme of attempting easily digestible write ups of my papers here are some thoughts on the delusion somatoparaphrenia… If I know anything at all surely I know that my hand is my hand and not someone else’s. Actually on that, I remember once as an undergrad, when getting frustrated in …

Symposium on Louise Richardson’s “Flavour, Taste and Smell” (Mind & Language 28 (3), 322-341)

I’m very glad to be able to kick off the first of a series of symposia that Brains will be hosting on papers from Mind & Language. This month our target article is “Flavour, Taste and Smell”, by Louise Richardson of York University in the UK.

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