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 …
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO. Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters (pending administrative approval), Department of Philosophy. Begins Spring Semester (January 15) 2012 or later. AOS: philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and computing. AOC: open. The postdoctoral fellow will work …
I’ve been thinking about the paper and movie linked at the previous post. Have a look at that if you haven’t, because it’s neat. Here’s what you might think about the movie. You might look at the clip on the left and the movie on the right, and think “Wow! …
Looking at MRI signals in visual cortex, researchers were able to reconstruct, with varying degrees of success, the movie clips people were watching (examples below in movie). The most obvious applications we could extrapolate to are for folks who are paralyzed, or perhaps even during dreaming. What I find most …
Content and Consciousness 2.0. Four Decades After. Book Proposal, to be submitted to the Studies in Brain and Mind Series (Springer). In Content and Consciousness (1969) Daniel Dennett introduced some pillars of his influential work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of evolution and cognitive science. This book promoted some notable …
