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 …
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CFA: Summer School of Ideas in Neuroscience
The following opportunity may be of interest to some Brains Blog readers! https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2023/ Like this: Like Loading…
Mummification and Moral Blindness
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 …
‘Moral duty’ to allow family and friends to make big life choices, says Cambridge philosopher
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 …
Brains Blog Roundtable: Buddhism in Philosophy of Mind
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. …
Stoicism as a foundational component of ethics and existentialism
Provided my eyes are not withdrawn from that spectacle, of which they never tire; provided I may look upon the sun and the moon and gaze at the other planets; provided I may trace their risings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 …
Neural Mechanisms 2023 Talk Lineup Announced!
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 …
Guest Post: Body Shaming is Unacceptable, Even if Directed at Vile People. An Intersex Critique of “Small Dick Energy”
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 …
The New Relevance of Rationing
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, …

Advice from an Emperor
We are tied to our positions in life as the planets are tied to their orbits. It is not up to us to decide when and where we rotate. We rotate as determined by the breath in our body and …