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Perceptual Content

It is Monday morning and I am riding the train through the post-industrial wasteland of northern New Jersey. I gaze out of the window and, suddenly, I see a deer. Let’s call it Frederik. The next morning, I am again on the train, riding through northern New Jersey. And, again, …

CFP: PhilMiLCog 2018

John Schwenkler March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 CFPs

PhilMiLCog 2018 University of Western Ontario Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science Thursday June 14 to Saturday June 16 Stevenson Hall 3101 Keynote Speakers: Sebastian Watzl (Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo) Michael L. Anderson (Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science, Western University) Stefan …

The Foundations of Perception

Susanna Schellenberg March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 functions / metaphysics of mind / Neuroscience / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Susanna Schellenberg: The Unity of Perception

Yesterday, I gave a general overview of my forthcoming book. Today, I’ll lay out the foundations on which the rest of the book builds: the general and particular elements of perception. Chapter 1 addresses the particular elements of perception, Chapter 2 its general elements. The phenomenon of perceptual particularity …

Neural Mechanisms Online 2018: An Interim Report — and call for discussants

John Schwenkler March 6, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / Neuroscience

[The following is a guest post by the organizers of Neural Mechanisms Online. — JS] Neural Mechanisms Online 2018 is a cycle of webinars (i.e. web seminars) on the philosophy of neuroscience. The speakers are several philosophers from all around the world, either junior or senior (see the calendar). The …

The Unity of Perception

Susanna Schellenberg March 5, 2018 March 5, 2018 books / Consciousness / Content / Epistemology / functions / metaphysics of mind / perception / perception;neuroscience / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / representation / Susanna Schellenberg: The Unity of Perception

Many thanks to John Schwenkler for running the Brains blog and for inviting me to guest blog this week about my new book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in …

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John Schwenkler March 5, 2018 March 11, 2018 books

We are grateful to Susanna Schellenberg for blogging this week on her book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, forthcoming in July 2018 from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.

2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality

John Schwenkler February 13, 2018 February 13, 2018 CFPs

We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will take place on June 19 – 27, 2018, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. The Summer Institute brings together talented young researchers and renowned scientists from around the globe and aims to …