From over at the Smoker I learn that David Morrow and Chris Sula have started a Jobs Board to ‘supplement’ that of the apa. Please spread the word!
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Remembering Dr. John J. Glanville
Posted on September 18, 2011 by Richard Brown
I recently was saddened to discover that a former professor of mine, John J. Glanville at SF State University, passed away. Dr. Glanville, as I knew him (he referred to me a Mr. Brown, saying he would call me ‘Richard’ after I had earned my M.A.), was one of those professors who you either loved [...]
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Stazicker on Attention and Mental Paint
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Richard Brown
On Monday I attended a discussion of James Stazicker‘s paper Attention, Visual Knowledge, and Psychophysics. I have talked about Block’s argument before that recent experimental work on attention suggests that there is mental paint (i.e. that there is more to phenomenology than what’s in the world or in our representations of it). In this paper [...]
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Milestone
Posted on September 3, 2011 by Richard Brown
Three years ago today I (successfully) defended my dissertation. A lot has happened in those three years and though I have been blogging less ever since I started my tenure-track job, this blog has been a great place to work out ideas. Thanks to everyone who has participated along the way!
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