Archive for January, 2009

New Baby!

Posted by Philippe Chuard on January 17th, 2009

A bit of product placement on Brainpains: our colleague Robert just got a book out with OUP, co-authored with Torin Alter. (open the post to see the beautiful cover!)

I haven’t quite finished reading it, but it’s a very good intro to the mind-body problem– clear, clever, entertaining, and a  good survey of recent debates about [...]

Call for Applications for X-Phi Summer Institute

Posted by JFisher on January 17th, 2009

Shaun Nichols asked that I post the following information about the the NEH summer institute he’s helping to organize.  It looks like a good opportunity for people interested in experimental philosophy.

Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions.  Although the movement is only a few years old, it has [...]