Male/Female Student Ratio in Philosophy Ph.D. Programs
My student Mike Sigler collected these data and gave me permission to share them.
View ArticlePhD position, ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’
PhD position ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’ Faculty of Social Sciences Vacancy number: 24.21.13 Closing date: 14 July 2013 This PhD project aims to advance our...
View ArticleDo Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions than Men? Responding to...
Recently there has been a lot of discussion in our profession (e.g., on philosophy blogs) about the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. Most of the proposed solutions to this problem have...
View ArticleAdvice on construing empirically-based arguments for a “generalist” audience?
A reader of the Brains blog wrote me the other day concerning a referee report he’d received on a submission to a top “generalist” journal. (See here if you don’t understand the rationale for my...
View ArticleSpaulding and Kandel on relationship between psychiatry/philosophy
See the following video from the Emerson-Wier Liberal Arts Symposium on the topic of interdisciplinarity at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Spaulding’s remarks begin at 25 minutes, and...
View ArticleSpaceTimeMind
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space...
View ArticleMassimo Pugliucci on philosophy and natural science
This is a very nice essay (h/t to Shannon Spaulding on Facebook), with many things relevant to the discussion in the comments to Cameron Buckner’s post from last month. An excerpt: I had (naively, as...
View ArticleTuesday Links
A donor has given $7.7 million to the University of Michigan to fund an institute in cognitive science. Here’s another excellent reply to Neil deGraase Tyson’s remarks on philosophy, this time from...
View ArticleThursday Links
This is really cool. Doesn’t strike me as an illusion, though, but rather as an illustration of the cognitive penetrability of of auditory perception. (h/t Richard Brown and others on Facebook) A new...
View ArticleFriday Links
In The Atlantic, the neuroscientist Nancy Andreason discusses her research on the neural underpinnings of creativity. At Aesthetics for Birds, Bence Nanay discusses the role of attention in aesthetic...
View ArticleParis Workshop on sensorimotor approach to Consciousness in July 2015
On July 4th and 5th 2015, just before the ASSC conference on Consciousness in Paris, we are organizing a workshop to discuss advances in the sensorimotor approach. All are welcome! See here for the...
View ArticleIs there gender bias against women in academic hiring?
Michael Brownstein has written a very thorough post at the Feminist Philosophers blog discussing a widely publicized study by Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci that’s supposed to show that women are...
View ArticleNew MA Program in Philosophy at George Washington University
The George Washington University Department of Philosophy is very happy to announce its new M.A. in Philosophy. This new graduate program complements our longstanding and highly successful M.A. in...
View ArticleTempleton-sponsored “Academic Cross-Training” for philosophers and theologians
This looks like a terrific program (note that it is only for the recently tenured): The John Templeton Foundation invites applications for its Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program beginning...
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Marcin Milkowski receives the IACAP’s Simon Award
Congratulations are due to long-time Brains blog contributor Marcin Milkowski, who was awarded the 2015 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International...
View Article2016 NEH Summer Institute on “Presupposition and Perception”
For further details, see the institute’s Web site: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/neh_perception/home The Topic: To philosophers, one of the most important divisions in the human mind is between...
View ArticleStatement of Protest Regarding Faculty Firings at Mount St. Mary’s University
Many of you know that I taught for several years at Mount St. Mary’s University, where Thane Naberhaus, a (tenured) professor of philosophy, was abruptly fired yesterday afternoon for his role in...
View ArticleFundraising effort to support fired faculty at Mount St. Mary’s
As I discussed earlier, two faculty members at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland were fired earlier this week for “disloyalty” to the institution. For the latest on this story, use the Google....
View ArticleLiane Young (Boston College) receives 2016 Stanton Prize from the SPP
Dr. Young’s research explores the neural and cognitive underpinnings of moral judgment and social cognition. For more on the SPP’s Stanton Prize, including a list of past winners, see...
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Remembering Jon Altschul
J.C. Berendzen at Loyola University in New Orleans writes: It is with great sadness that I report the death of our colleague and friend Jon Altschul. Jon was a recently tenured member of the Loyola New...
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