SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY: 36th Annual Meeting June 9-12, 2010, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010. Submissions should be tailored to one of the following three presentation types: •45 Minute Contributed Sessions with Commentators: Suitable for longer papers featuring empirical research or sustained …
By Jim Virtel The University of Pennsylvania is holding its second Neuroethics Boot Camp from August 1 – 11, 2010. All interested graduate students, professional students, university faculty, and working professionals are encouraged to apply regardless of science background. Applications are due February 1, 2010. Here’s more information from …
I have long wondered what dualists mean when they speak of nonphysical properties. Today I was reading Chalmers’ paper The Matrix as Metaphysics and he says something that may shed some light on the way in which he thinks of nonphysical properties. …
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By Jim Virtel GQ published an article describing the NFL’s reluctance to acknowledge Dr. Bennet Omalu’s discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in former NFL players who were originally diagnosed with dementia pugilistica. After Omalu published his results multiple times, the NFL refused to accept his work because Omalu knew …
Here are two things Dennett says about heterophenomenology: (1) Scientists should interpret a subject’s first-person reports as expressions of the subject’s beliefs (about their consciousness experience)(2) Scientists should treat people as incorrigible about what it’s like to be them. Since (2) seems to contradict Dennett’s often repeated claim that people …
Here’s an intriguing contrast. In philosophy journals, reviewers tend to think that papers with “positive” results are somehow superior to critical work with “negative” results. On the whole, the profession seems to think this right and proper. In medical journals, reviewers tend to think that an experiment that …
