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,…
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…
Language-like representations don’t magically process themselves. They require specific computing machinery. LOT requires not only a digital code for the language-like data and instructions but also digital processors that respond appropriately to the instructions, digital memory registers separate from the…
“Never allow yourself to get pissed off,” Omar said. “Last week the screws said in the morning they was about to unlock us, but they actually kept us banged up the entire day. The kid in the next cell was…
When my father was in his 90s and had lost most of his sight, I became a live-in carer and his Guardian-reader. The first thing he wanted read to him each morning were the funny brief letters. Like Ian Grieve…
The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) presents: Practical Session: How can philosophers engage in interdisciplinary research? The session will take place on zoom on the 27th of January 2023 at 4 pm (GMT+1)…
This last Michaelmas term marked the inaugural series of lab meetings for the Uehiro Centre’s BioXPhi lab (https://moralpsychlab.web.ox.ac.uk). Co-directed by myself and Dr. Brian Earp, the lab brings philosophers together with psychologists to conduct experimental studies in moral psychology and…
But this does not mean women cannot hold male partners to account, said McClelland. “Lack of sensitivity to domestic task affordances is not a visual impairment; it’s not like, say, colour blindness,” he said. “In the absence of affordance perception,…
One concern is the potential for ChatGPT or similar language models to be used to produce work that is not entirely the product of the person submitting it. If a student were to use ChatGPT to generate significant portions of…
Impostor syndrome reflects our reality: we’re all impostors to some degree. It’s mistaken only when someone concludes, on the basis of awareness of their pretense, that they’re faking it to a greater degree than others. Getting out the news that…
Written by Dr Daniel D’Hotman, DPhil student studying mental health and ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre Of course, training new mental health professionals takes time. In the short term, the Government could target overseas psychologists for streamlined migration streams—the…
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…
