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.

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!