Postdoctoral Fellow Appointment at UMSL

by Paul Pardi 3. October 2011 00:47
Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters at University of Missouri-St. Louis
Postdoctoral Fellow, one year appointment with possibility of extension for one or two semesters at University of Missouri-St. Louis [More]

CFP: Edinburgh ‘Aims of Inquiry and Cognition’ Conference

by Paul Pardi 7. July 2011 22:44
The Epistemology Research Group in Edinburgh will be hosting a conference next May on ‘The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition’. Invited speakers include Ted Sider (Cornell), Carolyn Price (Open University), Asbjørn Steglich-Pedersen (Aarhus), Stephen Grimm (Fordham) & Kristoffer Ahlstrom (Copenhagen)... [More]

OCC Program Finalized

by Paul Pardi 19. January 2011 21:18
The program for the third Online Consciousness Conference is finalized and is available at the conference website. The conference begins February 18th and lasts until March 4th. Papers (but not commentaries) will be available to read one week before the conference starts February 11th. To be update... [More]

Avoiding Responsibility in Ten Easy Steps

by Paul Pardi 2. January 2011 05:56
UPDATED: 1/1/2011 I had a fruitful discussion with Jack Angstreich about Strawson’s article below. Based on that discussion and other material by Strawson that Jack pointed me to, it’s become clear to me that my analysis below is wrongheaded and that I initially badly misunderstood Strawson’s argum... [More]

Consciousness Online Final CFP

by Paul Pardi 1. January 2011 22:45
The deadline for contributed submissions to the 3rd Online Consciousness Conference at Consciousness Online is this Wednesday January 5th 2011. Submit papers to consciousnessonline@gmail.com This year the conference has as its theme Neurophilosophy and the Philosophy of Neuroscience with invited ta... [More]

Study Breaks: In the mind or the body?

by Paul Pardi 25. October 2010 17:49
Stanford researchers find that the “need” for study breaks has less to do with our biology and more to do with our beliefs. "If you think of willpower as something that's biologically limited, you're more likely to be tired when you perform a difficult task," said Veronika Job, the paper's... [More]

Dennett's Content and Consciousness Republished in Paper and E-book

by Paul Pardi 27. May 2010 15:20
Annoucement about Content and Consciousness in paper
Annoucement about Content and Consciousness in paper [More]

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