Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside …
NATURALISM AND THE MIND KAZIMIERZ NATURALISM WORKSHOP 2009 September 4th – 8th 2009 Kazimierz Dolny, Poland This year we will focus on a topic that should be of interest for Brain readers and contributors – the mind, and we will do that in a naturalistic way Invited key speakers Tim …
European scientists are building silicon chips containing large scale artificial neural networks (200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, scalable to a billion neurons and 10 to the 13 synapses). (Thanks to Neal Anderson for the link.) IBM scientists and working on “cognitive computing”, an attempt to build a new generation of …
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Brian Leiter is running polls about the best journals in philosophy. Wayne Wu and others are trying to put together a list of journals in philosophy of mind and related sciences for Leiter to run a poll on. Wayne points out the following: “The big problem I’m realizing, of course, …
Stephen Wolfram, of New Kind of Science and Mathematica fame, is scheduled to make public a new tool next May. Wolfram Alpha is supposed to answer a vast number of questions in natural language by computing the answers from a large set of algorithms and databases. Sounds impressive. (Thanks to …
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Royal Institute of Philosophy The Metaphysics of Consciousness A Conference in Honour of T.L.S. Sprigge (1932–2007) Edinburgh, 7–9 July 2009 What is consciousness? What is its place in the physical universe? How did it arise in the course of cosmic evolution? Can there be a genuine …
