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Morality and Cog Sci

7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
MORALITY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
6-8 May 2011, Riga, Latvia.

INVITED ORGANIZERS: Michael Bishop (Florida State University), Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)

INVITED SPEAKERS include:

• Michael Bishop (Florida State University)
• Luc Faucher (Université du Québec a Montréal)
• Joshua Knobe (Yale University)
• Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
• Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney)
• Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
• Jesse Prinz (City University of New York)
• Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)
• Don Ross (University of Cape Town)
• Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
• Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)

There has been considerable interest recently in empirical approaches to the study of morality: What are the biological, cultural and psychological factors that explain the shape of our moral judgments, norms and practices? This conference will focus on current research into these facts – particularly findings from cognitive science – and their relevance to a philosophical theory of morality.

The symposium is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics of the University of Latvia and the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University

Call for Submitted papers:

A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication.

Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion. Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract.

All submitted papers should be PREPARED FOR BLIND REVIEW, and should be sent electronically to:

bolzano (at) ksu.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 15 JANUARY 2011. Authors will be notified in FEBRUARY 2011.

Symposium proposal:

In addition to individual papers, the scientific committee will be considering proposals for symposia. Time allowed for symposia is 2 hours (including discussion). Symposia should include a minimum of three and a maximum of four contributions. Submissions should be clearly identified as “Symposium proposal” and include:

1) The title of the symposium
2) A brief description of the topic and its relevance to the conference (200 words)
3) The name, affiliation and academic status (student, lecturer, assistant professor, etc.) of each participant
4) The title of each contribution as well as an extended 500-1000 word abstract.
5) The name, affiliation and academic status of the person who will be chairing the symposium

Symposium proposals should be sent electronically to:

bolzano (at) ksu.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 15 JANUARY 2011. Authors will be notified in FEBRUARY 2011.

Jobs and Ph.D.

Ho aggiunto una sezione JOBS, in basso a destra, dove trovate alcuni links a siti che segnalano posizioni aperte in università. Se conoscete altri siti, comunicatemeli.

Se ne conoscete, aggiungo anche dei links di siti che segnalano posti di dottorato.

Intorno alla x-phi

Al dipartimento di filosofia di Otago (Nuova Zelanda) hanno un gruppo di ricerca che lavora sul rapporto tra experimental philosophy (x-phi) ed empirismo classico. Ne parlano in questo blog.

In questo blog di St.Andrews, invece, si discute di x-phi e, più in generale, di metodologia filosofica.

p.s.: questa spilla anti x-phi è splendida!

p.p.s: se non sapete cos'è la x-phi e cos'è l'opposizione x-phi vs. armchair philosophy, e quindi vivete in una caverna, allora vi conviene leggere qui.

Il potere normativo delle intuizioni morali

Molti filosofi condividono l'idea che una teoria morale si debba fondare sulle nostre intuizioni morali, ossia sulle nostre credenze morali più forti, stabili e immediate.

In anni recenti, psicologi e neuroscienziati hanno studiato i meccanismi cognitivi alla base delle intuizioni morali. Secondo Peter Singer (qui), i risultati di questi studi empirici mettono seriamente in dicussione l'idea che le intuizioni morali abbiano un genuino potere normativo.

Ne parla Sandro Zucchi giovedì 7 e giovedì 14 Ottobre, ore 16:45, Aula Seminari del Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono.

La coscienza di Chalmers

E' uscito il nuovo libro di Chalmers sulla coscienza, "The Character of Consciousness". Molte delle cose contenute in esso sono già presenti in papers pubblicati da Chalmers negli ultimi dieci anni. Ad ogni modo, per chi lavora sulla coscienza, suppongo che questa sia una lettura obbligatoria.

Ecco come Chalmers presenta il libro:

The Character of Consciousness

My new book, The Character of Consciousness, has just been published. The official publication date is October 14, but I've now received copies and it is listed as in stock at Amazon and OUP.

The book is based around 14 papers of mine on consciousness from the last 15 years or so. I have reworked the papers in some places to avoid repetition and create more of a narrative flow. It is quite possible to read it from the beginning, although at 600 pages I don't know how many people will read it from beginning to end. The first five and last two chapters are fairly accessible to nonphilosophers, with some technical material in between.

The OUP website has a table of contents. The early chapters concern the problem of consciousness, the science of consciousness, and the metaphysics of consciousness. My own view is that these chapters provide a better entry point to the my nonreductive view of consciousness than do the early chapters of The Conscious Mind (for both philosophers and nonphilosophers); we'll see how widely that view is shared. The later chapters concern concepts of consciousness, the contents of consciousness, and the unity of consciousness.

There is also plenty of new material, e.g. in a substantial new introduction, afterwords to some of the papers (e.g. a substantial afterword on "First-Person Data and First-Person Science"), an unpublished much-longer version of "The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism" (with an afterword on "Other Anti-Materialist Arguments"), and new footnotes marked with asterisks throughout the book, responding to objections in the literature and pushing things forward in other ways.