“Consciousness Online” is a web-based philosophy conference organized by Richard Brown from LaGuardia College, CUNY. Richard has done a great job bringing together some great papers presented by excellent philosophers around the globe. Papers are presented by video and by narrated powerpoint, and comments and discussion will also be handled online. It’s an interesting format, [...]
Clayton Littlejohn has accepted a tenure track position at U. Texas San Antonio! It’s an excellent job and well deserved–in my opinion Clayton is a top notch philosopher who has already made excellent contributions to the field and is one of the best teachers we’ve had at SMU. We’ll be terribly sorry to see him [...]
The Brainpains group has started reading Robert Stalnaker’s new book “Our Knowledge of the Internal World” recently released by OUP. We will have read chapters 1-4 by the middle of next week, and hope to have a post up soon after that. Stalnaker is one of those philosophers you can’t help but learn from, so [...]
Hi all,
Since the Scwitzgebel piece generated such lively discussion, we’re going to stay on topic reading Alex Byrne’s “Introspection” next week. Those who like to play at home are invited to join us!
Best
RH
After an unfortunately long hiatus, with some of us preparing for tenure review, Brainpains is back with more brains and more pains. SMU has added two new philosophers of mind to our tenure-track ranks: Justin Fisher, previously a student at Arizona and a postdoc at UBC, and Matthew Lockard, fresh out of the excellent program [...]