His appearance is on the amavasya (new moon) of the month of Vaisakha. Gadadhara was a few years younger then Nimai and during their childhood they would play together. Gadadhara Pandit served as Lord Gaura’s chief assistant during His Navadvipa-lila. …
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Corey Maley will livestream Analog Computation and Representation on May 14
Join the session (up to 10 minutes early) | Read the paper Analog Computation and Representation Related: How to connect to Neural Mechanism Webinars We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. …
Crosspost: Immunity Passports: A Debate Between Jay Bhattacharya and Alberto Giubilini
So far, we have identified two points of potential disagreement – on whether we should have immunity passport in case where we can’t have some reassurance that herd immunity will be preserved, and on whether we should have immunity passports …
JOB: Tulane University
Job Description Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The Tulane Philosophy and English Departments in connection with the Cognitive Studies Program invite applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor to start fall 2021. Teaching responsibilities will include expository science writing and one …
Lockdown Erodes Agency
Lockdown has trashed businesses and made economies shrivel. But I wonder if its most lasting legacy will be ethical. It has eroded agency. It has made us less moral, less ourselves, and hence more manipulable. By Charles Foster The other …
Call for Abstracts: First Graduate Conference (Online) of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science
Carlo Debernardi (University of Milan) Stefania Moretti (University of Genoa) Vincenzo Crupi (University of Turin)Francesco Bianchini (University of Bologna)Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)Francesco Gagliardi (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences)Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna)Antonio Lieto (University of Turin)Stefania Moretti (University of …
Varuthini Ekadashi 7 May 2021
A Narration from Scriptural References Lord Krishna described the glory of Varuthini Ekadashi in terms of charity, “Better than giving horses in charity is giving elephants, and better than giving elephants is giving land.Better still is the giving sesame seeds …
CFP: Special Issue of Topoi, “What’s so special about faces?”
Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. M. (1997). The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of neuroscience, 17(11), 4302-4311. – Jordan Zlatev (University of Lund) Glazer, T. (2019). The Social Amplification …
Free will debate rages on, or is it all an illusion? | Letters
If free will is an illusion, then it’s an illusion whether you believe in it or not. So the Rev Carl Harding’s hard determinists had no choice but to look both ways before crossing the road. And a hard free …
Great thinkers make sense of a world racked by contradictions | Kenan Malik
A new biography, Places of Mind, by his student and friend Timothy Brennan, draws out many of the contradictions and puts them in personal and historical context. Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist Arendt, Baldwin and Said were very different …