We are very happy to have Jonathan Birch (LSE) blogging this week on The Philosophy of Social Evolution, new from Oxford University Press. To view all his posts on a single page, click here.
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Call for Applications: SSNaP 2018
Applications are now open for the 2018 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy, which will be held from May 27 to June 9 on the campus of Duke University.
This funded two week seminar experience produces valuable research and lasting relationships. Philosophers will learn new developments in neuroscience, while neuroscientists will study contemporary philosophy. You’ll form interdisciplinary teams and design your own experiments to conduct original research. The most promising projects will receive funding for the next year.
The deadline for applications is December 1, 2017. For more information, visit https://www.ssnap.net/.
SSPP Deadline
The submission deadline for the 2018 Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is approaching soon (November 1st)! See details here:
https://www.southernsociety.org/annual-meeting2
In Memoriam: Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert L. Dreyfus, for nearly 50 years a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, died this past Saturday.
As many will know, Dreyfus was an early critic of artificial intelligence and an influential interpreter of Martin Heidegger and other phenomenologists. More recently he challenged John McDowell’s conceptualist accounts of perception and action with arguments that drew on his reading of Merleau-Ponty and longstanding interests in the phenomenology of skill. He will be sorely missed.
For more on Bert’s life, his teaching, and what made his approach to philosophy so revolutionary, here is a lengthy obituary by his student Sean Dorrance Kelly.
A few links of interest
- A BBC Radio 4 series on “The Uncommon Senses”, with Barry Smith (University of London) and sound artist Nick Ryan. A full list of episodes is here.
- A special issue of Nautilus on the topic of Consciousness, including a profile of Christoph Koch and an essay on Russellian Monism by Hedda Hassel Mørch (NYU/Oslo).
- And some more Barry Smith, with an essay on “overestimating consciousness” at IAI.
Now Featured
We are grateful to Susanna Siegel for blogging this week on her new book The Rationality of Perception (Oxford, 2017). To view all of her posts on a single page, click here.
Letter of support for the Department of Philosophy in Zagreb
The Department of Philosophy in the Centre of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, is under threat of closure — apparently as retribution after members of the department have successfully brought a plagiarism case against the Croatian minister of science and education. For some more information, visit here.
The philosopher Kati Farkas will address the senate of the University of Zagreb on behalf of the embattled philosophy department, and she has composed a Letter of Support which she plans to bring to the senate meeting. The letter is to be signed by philosophy faculty affiliated with higher education institutions worldwide.
To sign Prof. Farkas’s letter, visit https://goo.gl/forms/b6MtV3OUK
(Thanks to Beri Marusic for sharing this information.)