New Philosophers' Carnival
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Updated version of the list of women working in the philosophy of mind
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 …
New Research Center in Philosophy of Cog Sci: Eidyn
Just to let you know about a new research center that has been launched in Edinburgh (Scotland). One of the specialities of the center will be philosophy of cognitive science. The research center is called Eidyn. One of its new projects is the recently awarded research grant on Extended Knowledge. There will be …
New Synesthesia Blog
The St. Louis Synesthesia Research team has updated the website to include a blog on synesthesia. We hope to share the experiences of both having and researching this interesting condition. We are open to contributions from outside authors with an interest in synesthesia. Check out the first post by Kristian …
A Couple of Announcements
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Looking ahead to CO5, Daniel Dennett has agreed to give the keynote talk which is very exciting! There may be other surprises to come, so stay tuned! Stevan Harnad has allowed me to upload the videos of talks from his Turing Consciousness 2012 conference to my …
The First Special Issue of Journal of Cognitive Science
on a computational foundation for the study of cognition is now available online for free. (The link to O’Brien’s paper seems to be broken; hopefully it will be fixed soon.) The two subsequent special issues should be opened up shortly.
Is Consciousness a Spandrel?
Next week I’m presenting a