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 …
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 …
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:
[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 …
We are conducting a study of color discrimination and short-term color memory. I would be grateful if you would participate in the study. You’ll need to use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the color of a square to fit the color of a second image. It will …
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 …
