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 …
Cognitive snobbery: The Unacceptable Bias in Favour of the Conscious
There are many corrosive forms of discrimination. But one of the most dangerous is the bias in favour of consciousness, and the consequent denigration of the unconscious. We see it everywhere. It’s not surprising. For when we’re unreflective – which …
Are Public Health Institutions Honest?
Although it may initially seem unappealing to assign intentions and beliefs to things that may only be metaphorical agents, it does not seem that odd. Institutions, such as the WHO, certainly behave as if they are capable of forming intentions …
‘Thematically richer than the Bible’: what I learned at the first annual Boss Baby symposium
“Frankly, we don’t know exactly what you’ll find,” the symposium’s website admitted, “but we know it will leave you thinking, ‘Yep, that was definitely a symposium dedicated to the 2017 film titled The Boss Baby.’” In the movie, the suit-and-tie-wearing, …
Call for Papers: SPP/ESPP (Milan, July 2022)
Submissions may take one of two formats: (1) a paper not to exceed 8 double-spaced pages; (2) an abstract not to exceed 2 double-spaced pages. Some may find that Format 1 better suits philosophy submissions and Format 2 better suits …