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BPP Onscreen: Ex Machina at the Flatbush Library 1:00 pm
BPP Onscreen: Ex Machina at the Flatbush Library @ Flatbush Library
Sep 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Brooklyn Public Philosophers is excited to announce a new program that we’ve put together for the fall! In addition to the Philosophy in the Library speaker series (stay tuned), we’re also starting a philosophy screening and discussion series that I’m calling Onscreen until I come up with a better name. On Saturday, September 15th at 1:00 PM at the Flatbush Library (22 Linden Blvd.), we’ll be screening Ex Machina, a very good, very creepy movie[...]
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Debate: Do Split Brain Patients Have Two Minds? 5:00 pm
Debate: Do Split Brain Patients Have Two Minds? @ Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center
Sep 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
In split-brain patients, the cerebral hemispheres have been separated by severing the corpus collosum. These patients sometimes behave as if they have one mind and sometimes as if they have two. Do these patients have a single consciousness that is in some respects fragmented? Or does each hemisphere support a distinct experiencing subject with a separate mind? Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science, NYU) Yaïr Pinto (Psychology, University of Amsterdam) Elizabeth Schechter (Philosophy, Washington University[...]
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Temporal Discounting in Psychology and Philosophy: Four Proposals for Mutual Research Aid – Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) 4:00 pm
Temporal Discounting in Psychology and Philosophy: Four Proposals for Mutual Research Aid – Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205
Sep 20 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
SWIP-Analytic Fall 2018 Events Thursday, September 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9205 Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame), “Temporal Discounting in Psychology and Philosophy: Four Proposals for Mutual Research Aid” Thursday, October 18, 4:00pm-6:00pm Location TBA Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth), Title TBA Thursday, November 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm Location TBA Jessica Wilson (Toronto), Title TBA More details will be added as they become available. Click here to download the flyer as a PDF.
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Sep 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”   September 28:  Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”   October 5:  Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action”   October 12:  Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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David Barack ‘Stream of Thought’ 7:30 pm
David Barack ‘Stream of Thought’ @ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
Sep 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Many cognitive processes rely on the preservation of contents across mental transitions or processes. Inference, for example, is a certain sort of content preserving mental transition from premises to conclusions. Content preservation is also important in communicating the contents of perception for further processing and for the influence of desires and belief on action. But what is content preservation? …
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Sep 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”   September 28:  Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”   October 5:  Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action”   October 12:  Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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