Nick Zangwill’s argument hinges on the anticipated pleasure of hypothetical animals – future animals – that will someday exist because of animal breeding for meat production. The idea is that ‘having a life’ is better than ‘not having a life’, …
Decoupling, Contextualising and Rationality
Chivers analyses the fallout in terms of a distinction between ‘high decouplers’ and ‘low decouplers’, a distinction described by the blogger John Nerst, here and also here. Chivers (and Nerst) describe decoupling as a ‘magic ritual’ that a speaker can …
Cross Post: Pig’s Heart Transplant: Was David Bennett the Right Person to Receive Groundbreaking Surgery?
But usually transplantation programmes do not pay any attention to the factor that Schumaker’s sister mentioned. They do not exclude convicted felons, even those who are still imprisoned. Guidance from the US organ transplantation network UNOS says that “status as …
Frederique De Vignemont will livestream “A Perceptual Sense Of The Future” on January 28
We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign up for …
Survey: Philosophy and/of/with Neuroscience
Eugenio Petrovich and Brains partner Marco Viola are surveying philosophers about the interaction between philosophy and neuroscience for a project titled “Philosophy and/with/of Science” funded by the University of Siena. You are welcome to share the survey with other philosophers. …
Philosophical Fiddling While the World Burns: Second Movement
Perhaps the real problem here isn’t that ethicists aren’t attending to the climate emergency but that academia in general is disconnected from the political decisions that make a real difference in the world. This is a problem even for ethicists …
Was Djokovic Unethically Blamed and Shamed?
This justification is quite different from the reasons that were initially provided for excluding Djokovic from the country. Oversea travellers to Victoria must either be double vaccinated or have a valid medical exemption to this vaccine requirement. Court documents and …
Discussing Richard Nisbett’s Thinking: A Memoir — X-Phi, Culture, Introspection, IQ, Guns, Class, and Academia
You have surely heard about cultural differences in reasoning, how people can fabricate reasons when asked to explain one of their decisions, and how many people seem systematically susceptible to reasoning errors. Much of this research was contributed by Richard …
Call for Papers: The Affective Turn in Cognitive Science
Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm conference 2022 June 22-24, 2022 – University of Parma Overview Paper presentations will be 30 minutes long including discussion. Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 500 words including references. …
Brains Blog Roundtable: Agency
Our wonderful participants in this roundtable are John Doris (Cornell), Chandra Sripada (Michigan) and Robyn Waller (Iona). Join us for a really fun discussion about the ways that philosophical and scientific models of agency interact, the ways that agency can …