Following on from Gualtiero’s earlier post about the options that graduate students have for getting feedback about their work, I’m curious to hear what the readers of Brains think about the importance of publishing as a graduate student. The opinion here at Rutgers seems to be split between those who …
Please share with any students who may be interested. Thanks, Eddy! The Philosophy Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is accepting applications from qualified undergraduates for its two $15,000 Neurophilosophy Fellowships, to be awarded by the Brains & Behavior program. The Brains & Behavior program at GSU aims …
It’s been brought to my attention that the name of this blog is not entirely transparent. The word ‘brains’ has many meanings. It means intelligence or mind. It is also the plural of ‘brain’, which refers to the most mindful part of our body. By meaning both mind and brains, this …
Dear Brains Community, We are going to submit the following special session proposal at ISHPSSB. If you are interested, please do contact me/us as soon as possible. Welcome, Anna-Mari *** 2007 The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology ( ISHPSSB ) …
Deadline: 15 April 2007. There is more…
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I am under the impression that philosophers who talk about consciousness by and large focus on state consciousness and neglect creature consciousness, perhaps because they think that creature consciousness reduces to (is analyzable in terms of) state consciousness, or at any rate state consciousness is the ontologically more fundamental notion. …
