Gualtiero invited me to comment on the current climate for women in empirically informed philosophy of mind. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on this without first calling attention to what I believe is a mistaken distinction in recent discussions of this very issue. Serife Tekin recently made a nice attempt at …
Cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks! So much has been going on in nyc that I have had trouble keeping up with it. However I have a bit of free time today and wanted to jot down a few notes about Sid Kouider’s recent presentation at the CUNY CogSci Colloquium. Sid was …
John Schwenkler’s thought-provoking survey on the climate for women in empirically-informed philosophy of mind prompts me to think more carefully about what empirically-informed philosophy of mind actually is. Are there necessary and sufficient conditions for a type of philosophical inquiry to be considered empirically-informed? I would like to generate a …
I’ve gotten about 30 responses to the survey I posted last week, and as I begin to look through the data (this takes a while, as I have to enter them into an Excel spreadsheet in order to break them down), some interesting trends have emerged. In this post I’ll …
Guest-blogging at Leiter Reports, Rebecca Kukla identifies the following criteria as necessary for a philosophical sub-discipline to be truly woman-friendly: (1) There are a sizable number of leaders and up-and-coming stars in the field who are women, regardless of whether they take up feminist issues, and (2) it has a …
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A philosophy of mind conference hosted by Bilkent University, Ankara, 7-8 June, 2012. High-quality submissions are invited on the many aspects of the mind-body problem. Some suggested topics include: naturalistic/physicalistic reduction of intentionality and/or phenomenal consciousness, the potential constitutive role of the body in mental states, the extended …
