Self-Consciousness and “Split” Brains: The split-brain phenomenon

Elizabeth Schechter: Self-Consciousness and 'Split' Brains
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Thanks, John, for this opportunity to talk about my book, and thanks, everyone else, for reading. The book is an empirically informed work of personal identity about the split-brain phenomenon. “Split-brain surgery” is a colloquial term for a surgery that cuts through the corpus callosum (and sometimes additional white matter …

List of Underrepresented Philosophers of Neuroscience

Academia / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science
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There is a new list of members of underrepresented groups working in philosophy of neuroscience (e.g., traditional philosophy of science topics in neuroscience, foundational issues in cognitive, computational, systems, molecular, and cellular neuroscience). The purpose of this list is to provide as comprehensive a list as possible of members of underrepresented …

Neural Mechanisms Webconference 2018: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience

Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / NM Webconference
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The editors of Neural Mechanisms Online announce the program for their 2018 webconference, on the topic of New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience. For more information, visit the conference program. Friday 5 October 2018 FROM … WHO? TITLE 8 GMT Hong Yu Wong Embodiment: Structure and Mechanisms 9 GMT …

Symposium on Christoph Hoerl’s “Experience and Time: Transparency and Presence”

Consciousness / Ergo Symposia / Metaphysics / metaphysics of mind / open access / perception / Phenomenology / Philosophy of Mind
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It’s my pleasure to introduce our next Ergo symposium, featuring Christoph Hoerl’s “Experience and Time: Transparency and Presence” with commentaries by Elliot Carter (University of Toronto) Geoffrey Lee (University of California, Berkeley), Louise Richardson (University of York). I’d like to thank each of the participants for their great work!

Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds: Conceptual Analysis and Conceptual Engineering

analytical philosophy / Concepts / Edouard Machery: Philosophy Within its Proper Bounds / Experimental Philosophy / Explanation
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In the previous post, I defended a restricted form of modal skepticism and I concluded that many traditional philosophical issues could not be resolved and should be set aside. One may wonder what is left for philosophers to do: Am I suggesting to close philosophy departments? Fear not, dear reader, …

[CFP] The Meta-Problem of Consciousness

analytical philosophy / CFPs / Consciousness / Consciousness; Chalmers / Philosophy of Mind
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This is a call for papers for a symposium in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on David Chalmers’ new paper “The Meta-Problem of Consciousness”. More than twenty years ago, David Chalmers published “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. He distinguished between the “easy …

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