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CFP: Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is inviting contributions to a celebratory volume on the neural correlates of consciousness. In 2000, MIT published „Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions“, edited by Thomas Metzinger. The volume brought together empirical neuroscientists, psychologists, anaesthesiologists, and philosophers, all participants at the 2nd ASSC meeting …

Call for Papers: SPP 2020

John Schwenkler August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 CFPs

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 46th annual meeting to be held June 10-13 at Princeton University. June 10 will include a pre-conference workshop and an opening evening reception, with the main conference activities taking place on June 11-13.

3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon

Christian List August 16, 2019 August 16, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is level-specific.

2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument

Christian List August 14, 2019 August 13, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.

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

Christian List August 12, 2019 June 4, 2020 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

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.