The Department of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington is hosting the conference “Agency and Responsibility: Perspectives from Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior” on September 13-15, 2007. Speakers include Richard Holton (MIT), Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck College), Al Mele (Florida State U), Shaun Nichols (U Arizona), Adina …
I recently received an anonymous email telling me that I was being rude by posting so much here and that if I wanted to post that much I should get my own blog. After thinking about it I decided that this anonymous person was right; so I am happy to …
The second annual Online Philosophy Conference (OPC2) is beginning in a week. There are two videotaped keynote addresses, one by Ernie Sosa and one by Jeff McMahan, and papers will be presented by (week one) Delia Graf, Shaun Nichols, Meredith Williams, and Juan Comesana, and (week two) Jonathan Dancy, Gillian Russell, …
Yesterday I went to Patricia Kitcher’s very interesting talk at the CUNY Cog sci Colloquium entitled ‘Layers of Consciousness in Kantian Judgments’. Her central concern was trying to give an account of how it is that the understanding can be conscious of itself as it performs various mental activities like …
The program of the 2007 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Toronto) is on-line. In many respects, the program is similar to last year’s program in St-Louis. Both programs have a session on animal cognition, a session on experimental philosophy (contributed paper last year, invited symposium this year), …
In Explaining What It’s Like I argued that any kind of higher-order theory of consciousness that wants to implement the higher-order strategy (which is explaining qualitative consciousness in virtue of our being conscious of our first-order states with qualitative properties) thereby commits itself to the claim that there is a qualitative …
Slate has a special issue out on “neuroscience and neuroculture”. (Link courtesy of Corey Maley.)
