Category: Philosophy

Now, what if, after careful introspection and reflection, you find out that you truly are a notorious liar? In this case, another dimension of authenticity provides further guidance. Authenticity also demands defining, being, and expressing yourself largely free of the …

The following opportunity may be of interest to some Brains Blog readers! https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2023/ Like this: Like Loading…

There has recently been an excellent and troubling example. Some museums have started to change their labels. They consider that the use of the word ‘mummy’ demeans the dead, and are using instead the adjective ‘mummified’: thus, for instance ‘mummified …

In the paper, entitled Transformative experience and the right to revelatory autonomy, Akhlaghi writes: “It is not the value of making a choice as such but, rather, that of autonomously making choices to learn what our core preferences and values …

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/waking-dreaming-being/9780231137096 Chadha & Nichols.  Experiential unity without a self.  The Case of Synchronic Synthesis.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.2020.1836007 [embedded content] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691220970/how-to-do-things-with-emotions Responsibility without Unified Agency  https://research.monash.edu/en/projects/responsibility-without-unified-agency Other scholars and works referenced. Martha Nussbaum.  https://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum Marya Schechtman.  https://phil.uic.edu/profiles/schechtman-marya/ Monima Chadha Book Details Thomas Metzinger.  …

Provided my eyes are not withdrawn from that spectacle, of which they never tire; provided I may look upon the sun and the moon and gaze at the other planets; provided I may trace their risings and settings, their periods …

March, 3, h 16 – 18 (CET)Chaz FIRESTONE(Johns Hopkins University) May 26, h 16 – 18 (CEST)Ali BOYLE(London School of Economics) February 17, h 16 – 18 (CET)Gualtiero PICCININI [hybrid](Unversity of Missouri – St. Louis) Hi All, Our friends at Neural Mechanisms …

We can be specific. Every year, babies are born with innate differences in their sex characteristics that have been medicalised, prompting doctors to (try to) reshape their bodies to fit with dominant gender norms. For decades now, the “standard of …

By Ben Davies Insofar as this is the reality of the NHS, it is surely preferable for difficult decisions to be made on justifiable grounds. That is the basic case for researchers in resource allocation to think about micro-level decisions, …