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Affordances and Motivation

The study of emotions, the so-called affective turn, allows us to rethink crucial elements in psychology and philosophy of mind. There has been a concurrent surge in creative research and theory in the field of ecological psychology.[1] In our book, we seek to clarify the function of affective sentience in …

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John Schwenkler February 17, 2020 February 25, 2020 books

We are pleased to have Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel blogging this week on The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (Harvard University Press, 2019). To view all their posts on a single page, please click here.

Marcin Miłkowski’s & Piotr Litwin’s livestream of “Testing Predictive Processing”

Nick Byrd February 17, 2020 February 12, 2020 Models / Neural Mechanisms Online / NM Webinar / Philosophy of Science

We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday (21st). As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign up for the mailing list that notifies people about …

The Emotional Mind: The affective roots of culture and cognition

Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel February 16, 2020 February 16, 2020 Emotion / evolution / Intentionality / Psychology / Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel: "The Emotional Mind"

In our new book, we argue that emotional systems are central to understanding the evolution of the human mind (as well as those of our primate cousins).

York Vision Science Summer School 2020: Most Expenses Paid

Jacob Beck February 6, 2020 February 6, 2020 Uncategorized

CVR-VISTA Vision Science Summer School, 2020 YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, CANADA The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University in Toronto, Canada offers a one-week, most-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school on vision science. This year’s program will be held June 8-12, 2020. This year’s summer school is being held in cooperation with the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) initiative that has …

Ruth Millikan will livestream “Mental Representation made simple”

Nick Byrd February 3, 2020 January 30, 2020 Neural Mechanisms Online / NM Webinar

We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday (10th). As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign up for the mailing list that notifies people about …

Symposium on Joseph Gottlieb’s “Verbal Disputes in the Theory of Consciousness”

Aaron Henry January 27, 2020 March 22, 2021 Consciousness / Ergo Symposia / Explanation / Language and Communication / metaphysics of mind / Philosophy of Mind

It’s my pleasure to introduce our next Ergo symposium, featuring Joseph Gottlieb’s “Verbal Disputes in the Theory of Consciousness“, including commentaries by Jonathan Farrell, Assaf Weksler, and Josh Weisberg. I’d like begin by thanking each of the participants for their great work.