Ayer on Logical Positivism

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Philosophical & Psychological Issues Conference

This weekend James Dow (of Selbsttatigkeit) and I will be taking part in the 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical & Psychological Issues Conference at the University of South Alabama. Below is a copy of the conference schedule with links to the abstracts of the various papers.

Friday	Speaker	Topic and Abstract
8:30-9:10	Michael S. Gordon	On the Division of the Senses
9:15-9:55	Jack Shelley-Tremblay	Event-related Potentials Index Aspects of Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
10:00-10:45	David Bunch, Jonathan D. Walker & Alen Hajnal	Lateralization of sequence learning and transfer in a tactuo-spatial task
10:40-11:20	Kenneth Aizawa	Noe‘s Strong and Weak Enactivism
11:25-12:25	John Bickle	From Psychological Generalizations to Neuromolecular Mechanisms: Explanations ‘in a Single Bound'
Lunch at facility
1:30-2:10	James Beebe	Surprising Connections Between Knowledge and Intentional Action: The Robustness of the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect
2:15-3:05	Daniel A. Weiskopf	The Architecture of the Embodied Mind
3:10-4:00	Andrea Scarantino	Unconscious Emotions: Respectable, Useful, and Probably Necessary
Saturday
9:30 - 10:10	Avery Archer	Desires as Sub-agential Evaluations of the Good
10:15 - 10:55	Elise Labbé-Coldsmith	Mindfulness: Defining and Measuring from a Biopsychosocial Perspective
11:00-11:40	Richard Hine	Attention as Phenomenal Consciousness: For Richer, For Poorer
11:45-12:25	James Dow	Against Cognitive Descriptivism: Self-Ascription, Identification, and the Subject Principle

For more information, see the conference website here.

Fordham Graduate Philosophy Conference 2010

Despite our considerable cultural, scientific and historical distance from Aristotle his thought remains a fertile source of philosophical insight. The rise of virtue ethics in the 20th century furnishes a paradigmatic example of how Aristotle can still be brought into productive conversation with contemporary philosophical debates. Perhaps, however, Aristotle’s insights were not limited to ethics alone. Therefore, the goal of Fordham’s next biennial graduate student conference Aristotle in the 21st Century is to explore whether and how Aristotle’s work might advance contemporary debates in action theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, political theory and other areas as well as ethics. We will welcome as plenary speakers Prof. Michael Thompson of the University of Pittsburg and Fordham’s own Prof. John Drummond.

The conference will be held the 5-6th of March, 2010 at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

Graduate students wishing to submit a paper for consideration are asked kindly to email their submissions by 1 Jan 2010 to:

fordham.graduate.conference@gmail.com

Check out the conference website here.

3 Quarks Blog Competition

Voting is now open for the 3 Quarks 2009 Philosophy Blogging Competition. I originally nominated the post “Dilworth’s Functional Consonance”. However, there were two nominations for my recent post, “A Counterexample to Setiya”. Since I give priority to the opinions of my readers, I’m now rooting for the Setiya post (number 58 on the list). So I invite all my blog readers to check it out and if you think it deserving of the honour, please cast your vote here.

There are a number of quality posts on the list, so whether you decide to vote for mine or not I think you should definitely vote.


UPDATE:

Polling for the 3 Quarks competition is now closed and the list of semifinalists is now available here.

Special thanks to all those who voted for this blog!