Dario Taraborelli has asked me to attract your attention to a new journal, The Review of Philosophy of Psychology. The RPP accepts proposals for special issues as well as submitted articles, and the editors welcome articles in the philosophy of mind...

Yes! Some people don't realize this.  Someone recently objected to me that since McCulloch and Pitts were studying the brain, they must be offering only a theory of neural activity, on the same level as, say, Hodgkin and Huxley.  How can I say...

Hi folks. I'm one of the new kids on the virtual block. Thanks to Gualtiero for giving me the opportunity to contribute here. I'm interested in the relation between mirror neurons and social cognition. Mirror neurons are neurons in our brains that...

And bigotry in academia loses.  The board of the APA has done the right thing and ruled that institutions that discriminate against homosexuals will be flagged as violating the APA non-discrimination policy if they advertize in Jobs for Philosophers. ...

Update: If anyone is interested, I posted a couple more thoughts on this discussion at Philosophy Sucks! On Tuesday I attended a discussion with Kati Balog of her paper Zombies, Illuminati, and Metaphysical Gridlock which was very interesting. She...