Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2007, Call for Paper
The call for paper for the 2007 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology is now out (here). The deadline is March, 1.
Journal Copyright
In a message to the philosophy listserv PHILOSOP, Aaron Sloman wrote the following: More philosophers should put their papers online: not everyone has access to printed versions — so they are often useless for potential readers. I always cross out restrictive paragraphs on journal copyright forms and so far no …
Cognitive Economy
Elisabetta Lalumera posted a comment with an interesting question:“What is cognitive economy? Sometimes philosophers and psychologists evaluate proposals on the graounds that they fare well/bad at cognitive economy (e.g. on-the-fly concept views, like Barsalou’s, would avoid the storage cost of concepts in semantic memory, etc.).”“Any suggestion about what to look …
NA-CAP@LOYOLA 2007
THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
July 26th – 28th, 2007
Call for Proposals…
IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling
We would like to invite you to submit a paper for the IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling…
Papers Due: January 31, 2007
Spinning Free Wheels
There is a review of contemporary debates about free will in the NYT of two days ago. The author gets a bit mixed up on freedom vs. unpredictability, but this is as far as an intelligent science writer has gotten so far by interviewing a bunch of scientists and philosophers.
Experimental Existential Psychology
I always thought existentialism was the exclusive province of some continental philosophers. Well, I was wrong. There appears to be a growing literature of psychologists investigating empirically the existential concerns of people as well as the psychological strategies they adopt to cope with existential concerns, the effects those concerns have …