The article is here, featuring a photo of our own Richard Brown and Pete Mandik jamming with Alex Keifer in Quiet Karate Reflex, plus quotes from Richard, Dave Chalmers, and others. Event details here; and here is the event page on Facebook.
This is a call for abstracts for the second biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 7-9, 2013. Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility. Perspectives beyond just those …
The mind-body problem asks: How are mental states related to physical states of the brain, the body, and behavioral states more generally? Functionalists claim that mental states are identical with functional roles, defined as relations between environmental impingements, external behaviors, and other mental states.Analytic functionalists contend that these identities are imposed …
I am very pleased to welcome several new contributors to “Brains”: Kristina Musholt is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. She has published papers on self-consciousness and the relationships between conceptual and non-conceptual forms of representation. Miguel Angel Sebastián …
Via Brian Leiter, this post by Paul Thagard criticizes what he claims are eleven “dogmas” of “analytic philosophy”, which he describes as the attempt “to use the study of language and logic to analyze concepts that are important for the study of knowledge (epistemology), reality (metaphysics), and morality (ethics)”. Against …
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 …
