A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind led by John Heil, 10 June – 12 July 2013. Visiting faculty will include E. J. Lowe, Graham Oddie and Alyssa Ney. Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical …
Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5, in legible if messy writing. This is an unremarkable feat for a human, but Spaun is actually …
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013 Venue: The British Academy,10-11 Carlton House Terrace,London SW1Y 5AHTuesday 26 March 2013, 9am – 5.30pm Wednesday 27 March 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm Thursday 28 March 2013, 9.30am – 1.00pm In addition: special demonstration of sensory substitution and augmentation devices on …
To any and all in the Tri-State area you are invited to the 3rd Qualia Fest. Organized by the New York Consciousness Collective the Qualia Fest is an annual event that celebrates the music of philosophers and cognitive scientists. When: Monday December 10th 2012 Where: The Bowery Electric 327 Bowery …
An interesting bunch of papers on McCulloch are available here. Now we have a fairly nice collection of papers that can throw some light on early computationalism.
I’m glad to announce that Robert Briscoe and Myrto Mylopoulos are the newest contributors to Brains. For those of you who don’t know their work (and you should!), Myrto is a Ph.D. candidate at CUNY doing important work on the relationship between action and consciousness, and Robert is Associate Professor …
3rd-17th December 2012 Supported by Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity Conference website (registration required): https://goo.gl/p8koN The New Waves in Philosophy of Mind online conference opens on 3rd December 2012 and runs for 2 weeks. Written versions of papers from the speakers will be posted on the …
