Apparently human females go into heat, contrary to a common assumption. The evidence is that professional lap dancers receive significantly more tips during the phase following ovulation, i.e., when they are fertile. (From an article in the last issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.)
Neuroethics is now accepting submissions. (More information at Experimental Philosophy.)
2nd CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.
* The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is organising an international two-day conference, ‘e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies’ to be held in York on May 14th-15th 2008…
Greetings to the Brains community. My name is Mike Ferreira; I’m a student in the Philosophy department at Ohio State. I write because I’m in the early stages of constructing the bibliography on which I’ll be tested for candidacy. This is a request for input in the form of suggestions for additions and omissions …
The excellent program All in the Mind from the ABC Radio National is launching a program’s blog here. On Saturday, there will be an interview with Steven Pinker.
Workshop 29.11.2007 – 30.11.2007 HelsinkiThursday 29.11. 2007: Metsätalo, aud. 4, ( Unioninkatu 40)Computational templates and computational science:10.00 – 11.15 Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia: “Computational Templates: Representation and Application”11.15 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 12.15 Andrea Loettgers, California Institute of Technology: “Computational templates in modeling biological systems”12.15 …
David Chalmers has just announced the launch of MindPapers – an online database of mind-related papers on the Web. It’s much bigger than the bibliography he compiled and offers additional options such as submitting papers to it.
