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Update to “Philosophy of Neuroscience” Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Daniel Burnston August 12, 2019 August 12, 2019 Uncategorized

The Fall 2019 revision/update of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “Philosophy of Neuroscience” entry includes revisions to previously published sections, and an entirely new section on work in the field during the second decade of the 21st century. Detailed discussion of recent work on mechanism reflects the dominance that this …

1. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: The Challenge

This series of posts discusses some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Christian List.

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John Schwenkler August 12, 2019 August 20, 2019 books

We are pleased to have Christian List blogging this week on Why Free Will Is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019). To see all of Christian’s posts on a single page, please click here.

The Unclaimed Theory of Consciousness

John Schwenkler July 19, 2019 July 19, 2019 Consciousness

The following is a guest post by Brains blog reader Eric Lindell, whose paper “A Note on Active Panpsychism” was published recently in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Abstract: Maturana’s Biology of Cognition offers a theory of consciousness without claiming it as such. Instead, it claims only to have …

Symposium on Fischer et. al. ‘Experimental Ordinary Language Philosophy’

Keith Allen July 15, 2019 July 24, 2019 Experimental Philosophy / perception / philosophy of language / Symposia

In ‘Experimental ordinary language philosophy: a cross-linguistic investigation of default inferences’, (Synthese, 2019) Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhard, Joachim Horvath and Hiroshi Ohtani seek to take experimental philosophy beyond the study of intuitions and highlight links to one of its historical precursors. They show how experimental methods and findings from psycholinguistics …

Beate Krickel and Matej Kohár on the Completeness of Mechanistic Explanation

Nick Byrd July 8, 2019 July 11, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / NM Webinar

Beate Krickel and Matej Kohár will discuss the Completeness of Mechanistic Explanation on the next Neural Mechanisms webinar on Friday, July 12. Find out how to join the discussion (for free) in this post.

New OA Journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

John Schwenkler June 26, 2019 November 26, 2022 Academia / open access

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is a new, peer-reviewed, independent, not-for-profit, entirely open-access journal that “focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience”. Its editors-in-chief are Sascha Benjamin Fink (Magdeburg), Wanja Wiese (Mainz), and Jennifer Windt (Monash).

The journal is now open for submissions.