I try to avoid inflamatory language, but this petition is upsetting: philosophers splitting hairs in support of policies that discriminate against homosexuals (HT: Leiter Reports). Their main point seems to be that you are not really discriminating against homosexuals as long as you are not asking them to change their sexual orientation …
I’m a big fan of grandmother cells, myself… doi:10.1037/a0014462
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The program of the Conciousness Online Conference organized by Richard Brown has been finalized. See it there. Do not miss Richard’s presentation of the conference! Thanks for all this work. Edouard
September 24 – 26, 2009Lord Nelson HotelHalifax • Nova Scotia • Canada https://www.noveltechethics.ca/site_brainmatters.php Re: Call for Abstracts – Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics This conference will bring together new and established researchers from around the world with a complementary range of expertise in ethics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, medicine, …
My book, Doing without Concepts, is now out! You can get it from the Oxford University Press website or from Amazon (where it is not yet in stock). Most of you know know the take-home message of the book: The notion of concept should be eliminated from the theoretical vocabulary …
