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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
“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,…
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…
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to – while Modi and his allies tell us not to complain Listening to the women who alleged…
HK: I disagree with you on the idea that everyone can have a vaccine if they want to because they’re available for everyone. It assumes an equality that doesn’t exist. Maybe by law and maybe technically they’re available, but as I…
How was all this possible? One factor will likely have been Conservative voters staying at home, and a few switched to other right-wing parties. But at her acceptance speech, Morgan acknowledged that it was highly likely that voters who would…
Having just the right words to explain what’s happening keeps you from feeling, well, crazy. Similarly, Bullock Brown said she spent years unpacking the social messages to conform to specific, and limiting, ideas of what a woman is supposed to…
Written by Alberto Giubilini and Julian Savulescu. Cross-Posted from The Conversation Shutterstock The online world exacerbates this human tendency. It polarises two heavily moralised camps: the self-perceived good, responsible people on one side (the shaming ones), and the ones considered…
Philosophy is a rational, and hence a fundamentally general and universal, enterprise. When you think about a particular question – such as, say, whether doctors, in the case of certain interventions, should seek consent from patients – you might end…
Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford, and Jonathan…
