Visit https://www.southernsociety.org/copy-of-annual-meeting-2 for more information.The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in Mobile, AL from March 31-April 2. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as plenary sessions jointly sponsored by the Philosophy and Psychology Program Committees. The deadline for all philosophy submissions is September 25, 2021.
We are delighted to inform the philosophy community of a newly founded international society:The International Society for the Sciences of the Mind is a hub for connecting researchers around the globe in all areas of the philosophy of mind and…
Defining thick concepts is particularly tricky. Those definitions are not just judged for their descriptive plausibility but whether they imply acceptable moral practices. In the debate on personhood, philosophers have repeatedly drawn boundaries on the descriptive level that lead to…
“Pandemic dreams” are already the subject of a book of essays from Harvard research Deirdre Barrett, alongside reams of popular audience articles and social media posts. Windt is particularly curious about the dreams and mind-wandering of people in lockdown. “It’s…
Becko Copenhaver Washington University, St. Louis I wonder whether Dustin would resist this picture. If he does, it might be for epistemic reasons. Dustin argues convincingly that CP is an intellectual epistemic virtue, and he holds that an “epistemic virtue…
What I do believe is that we have a right to learn for ourselves who we will become, and what we will be like, by making transformative choices. I call this “revelatory autonomy”. I argue for this right in exploring…
Written by Ed Lamb, St. Anne’s College This brings us onto the second difference, which is an epistemic one. Many of our objections to suicide revolve around the fact that the agent cannot know that their life will not improve. Even…
