Final Call for Papers

Dec 5th is the deadline for submissions! Note the updated special sessions! I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. The Invited Program includes, Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior featuring, Floris P. de [...]

News Flash: Philosophy Sucks!

Via the latest philosophers’ carnival I learn of a recent kerfluffle, started here, and continued here over the usefulness of philosophy and I can’t resist throwing my $0.02 in. One thing that I have little patience with is the view that dismisses philosophy all together. The view that there is no progress in philosophy is itself a philosophical view. [...]