Steps Towards Brain-Reading
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Society for the Metaphysics of Science at the 2008 Central APA
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science has organized the following sessions at the upcoming Central APA:GI-5 Thursday, April 17, 9:00 AM-12:00 PMTopic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World Title: “The Folk Concept of Race”Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)Title: “Normalcy and Sociality”Speaker: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)******** GIII-10 Thursday, …
SSPP 2008 Program
The program for the 100th meeting of the SSPP, which will take place in New Orleans on 20-22 March 2008, is out. Check it out.
Philosophers’ Carnival #64
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Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop ’08
KAZIMIERZ NATURALISM WORKSHOP 2008 September 6th – 10th 2008 Kazimierz Dolny, Poland Invited key speakers Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow, UK) David Papineau (King’s College London, UK) Susan Haack (University of Miami, USA) Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) Ingo Brigandt (University of Alberta, Canada) Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly …
Neurophilosophy Fellowships of $15,000 for Georgia State Masters Program
Please share this information with any students who may be interested. Thanks, Eddy! The Masters program in the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is accepting applications from qualified students for its two Neurophilosophy Fellowships–as well as a Legal/Political Philosophy Scholarship, and a German Philosophy Scholarship. Fellowships …
Got Salmon?
Wesley Salmon often mentioned, or implicitly referred to, the “overcoming psychological uneasiness” conception of scientific explanation (e.g., 1984: 12-13). Do any readers know whether anyone has actually ever held the view Salmon characterizes? Did Salmon ever attribute it to anyone or otherwise cite anyone as having been sympathetic to it? …