CFA: Winter School on Bounded Rationality

TAPMI—MAX PLANCK–SOTON WINTER SCHOOL ON BOUNDED RATIONALITY January 08–14, 2018, Manipal (India) Call for Applications The T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung or MPIB) and the University of Southampton (Soton) Business School is organizing the Second Winter …

Introducing the Illusions Index

The following is a guest post by Fiona Macpherson and Umut Baysan, Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (www.gla.ac.uk/cspe/), University of Glasgow. The Illusions Index (www.illusionsindex.org/) is a fully searchable interactive curated collection of illusions. It consists of images (many of which are interactive), sounds, and videos, together with instructions …

CFP: Special Issue on “Philosophy of Memory” in Essays in Philosophy

Call for Papers The Philosophy of Memory Essays in Philosophy Volume 19, Number 2 Issue Date: July 2018 Submission Deadline: March 1, 2018 Issue Editors: Ian O’Loughlin (Pacific University) and Sarah Robins (University of Kansas) Memory is a fundamental element of human—and more broadly, animal—intelligence and experience. Given memory’s importance, …

Should We Redefine Statistical Significance? A Brains Blog Roundtable

Consider the following:   Obviously this is bad science and even worse scientific reporting, but what can be done to combat it? More generally, what should be the scholarly response to the growing sense, among scientific researchers and the lay public alike, that scientific publications are not trustworthy — that …

Designed Mind Symposium 2017 Conference Programme

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Exploring the Function, Evolution & Implementation of Consciousness Informatics Forum,University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland 8-9 November 2017 https://designedmind.org   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University Michael Graziano, Princeton University   KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOS Daniel C. Dennett, author of Consciousness Explained (Little, Brown and Co., 1991), Freedom …

The 3rd Annual Minds Online Conference Starts Monday!

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session’s papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post for the rest of the details.

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