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…
What about a point of view of an impartial spectator (pace Hume and Smith)? Isn’t that what we need for morality and isn’t that the kind of impartiality we want? First of all, an impartial spectator is someone who…
One of my favorite examples of this switch comes from Jean-Paul Sartre. He asks you to imagine standing at a door, bent over so as to look through the keyhole. You are desperately trying to make out what is…
When we think of ourselves we tend to focus on our feelings and sensations. We think of our reasons for actions more in terms of relevant beliefs than desires. We think of our beliefs not as beliefs, but as…
The type of empathy these skeptics tend to attack is affective empathy, namely feeling an emotion consonant with that of another person because that other person is feeling it (or because they are in the situation they are in)….
This week the Brains Blog will host a series of posts by Heidi Maibom about her exciting new book, The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works! Please join us for the posts and engage in discussion in the comments board!…
[embedded content]Jimmy Dean sings about JFK as commander of the PT-109 in WW2. At around 2:20 he says: ‘Now, who could guess, or who could possibly know, that this same man, named Kennedy, would be the leader of the nation…’…
Jane: Eh? He distinguished Aksu and Lewit from Heidi and Aidan’s case on the basis that: .He went on to observe that the perception of the appellants that the present state of the law devalued them ‘cannot itself constitute or…
Written by Muriel Leuenberger One dimension of authenticity entails that you should know yourself, not be self-deluded, and face uncomfortable truths. Living in a simulation is inauthentic if it is done to escape reality. Alice’s friend Bunny is aware that…
Wilkinson usefully distinguishes between “rational consolation” and “psychological consolation”, the former referring to when “philosophical analysis leads to the conclusion that it would be rational to care less about death than we currently do” and the latter to when “philosophical…
(P3) Human enhancements can constitute and/or give rise to transformative experiences. The article can be accessed in its entirety via Open Access here. The conclusion we draw is that (C) it can in some cases be in principle impossible for…
Link to the book. In the philosophy of language and mind, Paderewski’s name became well known because Saul Kripke used this example to illustrate or argue for certain ideas about proper names and reference. In Chapter 7 of Talking About,…
Nudges have become increasingly popular, but there are many objections to their widespread use. Some allege that nudges do not actually benefit people, while others suspect that they do not really respect autonomy. Although there are many ways of making…
I propose to do at least three things with this distinction. First, attitude ascriptions will tend to resist substitution of coreferential expressions only when we have in mind representational acts. Second, reference should be thought of as an act, an…
