As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 15, 2012. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
Call for Philosophy Papers The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology announces a call for papers for its One Hundred and Fifth Annual Meeting, to be held February 28 – March 2, 2013 in Austin, TX. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as plenary …
In the previous post (Part I), we met some aliens that seem to have developed a turbo-charged neuroscientific theory of consciousness. Unfortunately for the materialist, the aliens’ story seems incomplete in a way that the antimaterialist can exploit.
The following is a science fiction about consciousness in which I’ve twisted a few counterfactual knobs to make things tough for the materialist. In this attempted reductio, I assume physicalism is the case, and generate a putatively serious objection. It is the only line of thought that has recently given me serious worries as a neurophile, so I am curious what others think.
FYI, this post went up a few weeks ago. It seems like a great opportunity for philosophers interested in philosophy of neuroscience and law. Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is creating a new interdisciplinary Neuroethics Program, a cooperative venture of the Department of Philosophy, the Neuroscience Institute, the Department …
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Earlier this year, Carolyn, Brit and I compiled a list of women working in the philosophy of mind and related fields (including some areas of psychology, and related issues in the history of philosophy). As I explained at the time, the purpose of the list is to help counter the …
