Philosophers' Carnival #108
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Online Videos on Neuroscience and Society
This may be worth checking out. Martha Farah conducted interviews with University of Pennsylvania faculty, as part of a recent lecture series, entitled “Conversations on Neuroscience and Society. ” The interviews include discussion on the neurodynamical underpinnings of emotion, gender, warfare, crime and philosopher Susan Schneider’s views on how our great-great grandchildren might think. Online …
Synthese and the Philosophy of Neuroscience
As most of your know, the journal Synthese publishes a yearly issue on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy, edited by John Bickle. In recent years, this has been perhaps the highest profile venue explicitly devoted to articles in the philosophy of neuroscience. John kindly invited me to take over this editorial …
The New York Consciousness Collective
Any Brains readers in the New York area should consider themselves invited to the NYCC jam session on May 31st…for more info (and some fun videos and tunes) check out our facebook page….if you are in town come on down and have a drink with us or join in the …
Pain Asymbolia and A Priori Defeasibility
I listened to the first lecture in David Chalmers’ Locke Lectures currently taking place at Oxford and I was intrigued by the argument he gave in defense of the claim that we can have a priori knowledge and do conceptual analysis even if we cannot give definitions of the concepts …
Mental/mental causal exclusion cases
By Brandon Towl Some readers of Brains will be familiar with Kim’s causal exclusion argument. Roughly, the argument goes: 1) Every physical effect has a sufficient cause that is a physical cause. 2) Mental states (properties) are causes. 3) Mental states (properties) are realized by physical states (properties). 4) Mental …
Doing without Concepts: Some symposia and reviews
Some of you might be interested by the symposium that is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies on Doing without Concepts. Chris Hill (Brown, here) and Diana Raffman (Toronto, here) comment on the book, and I reply. Hugo Mercier IUPenn) has also a review in Biology and Philosophy.