The Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association will hold its first conference (SLAPSA1) on Saturday, Febraruary 28, 2009. The keynote speaker will be PAUL WEYRICH (University of Missouri). The meeting will be held on the campus of Washington University, in room 104 of Wilson Hall.The schedule of speakers and …
This NEH Institute might be of interest to some readers of Brains: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in …
I just got back from the Eastern APA, where I chaired an interesting author-meets-critics session on Paul Smolensky and Geraldine Legendre’s book, The Harmonic Mind (MIT Press 2006). The critics were Bill Ramsey and (jointly) Terry Horgan and John Tienson. We all went to lunch after the session. Smolensky expressed surprise at …
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I recently read a very interesting opinion in Nature by Tu & Knight titled “Metabolic cycles as an underlying basis for biological oscillations” (2006). The main idea of the paper is that many periodic processes in organisms, specifically, the circadian cycle, hibernation cycle, and sleep-wake cycle, can be partially explained in terms …
C.B. Martin, The Mind in Nature, OUP, 2007. C.B. Martin died on October 23, 2008, barely a year after his magnum opus came out. As Paul Snowdown writes in his obituary, Martin was one of the most “original, profound and important” philosophers of our time (hat tip Leiter Reports). Yet for a …
Due to popular demand the deadline for submitting a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference has been extended from December 15th, 2008 to January 12th, 2009. So, finish up those papers and submit something! Submit papers to consciousnessonline@gmail.com
