POSITION: Tenure stream assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, pending budgetary approval. Area of Specialization: History and philosophy of science and related areas that naturally complement departmental strengths. We have interest in strengthening areas of history and philosophy of neuroscience, physics, and general methodology. Rank: …
Brains readers may be interested in the following ad, which will appear in the JFP (though not, I think, in the October edition). GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia. Rank: Assistant Professor. AOS: Empirically-informed Philosophy of Mind. AOC: Open, but some preference for Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, or Philosophy of …
Please post and distribute widely; apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the third online consciousness conference. Invited speakers include, Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University Paul Churchland, University of California San Diego Steven Harnad, University of South Hampton Jesse Prinz, The Graduate Center, CUNY Papers in …
Below is a CFP that may be of interest to Brains readers. PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: DEBATES ON EMBODIED SOCIAL COGNITION SPECIAL EDITOR: SHANNON SPAULDING Rationale: Embodied Cognition (EC) is a research program that challenges the basic tenets of Cognitivism, the standard position in …
By Brandon Towl Hello again Brains readers– I’m turning to you again for your help and insights. Here is a link to a draft of a paper I am working on tentatively entitled “Multiple Realizability without Multiply Realizable Properties”. I’d appreciate any feedback or comments on it from interested parties. …
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The following post is a bit of a rant, written in the tradition of the angry bloggers of yore…
The first part discusses Scholarpedia’s section on consciousness. The second part is a dialogue I overheard on higher-order theories of consciousness.
