"Faculty from the philosophy department, the Institute for Simulation and
Training, and the College of Medicine have received a $300,000 grant
from the John Templeton Foundation to research the relationship between
space travel and spiritual experiences."
More details here.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Embodied simulation, an unproductive explanation: Comment on Gallese and Sinigaglia
by Leon de Bruin and Shaun Gallagher.
Here at TICS.
Leon is (or at least was) at Ruhr University, Bochum, where I will be visiting this summer. I met him there a few years back and ran into him again last summer. Since we both have some interest in mirror neurons, this should make for a more productive summer for me.
Here at TICS.
Leon is (or at least was) at Ruhr University, Bochum, where I will be visiting this summer. I met him there a few years back and ran into him again last summer. Since we both have some interest in mirror neurons, this should make for a more productive summer for me.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Chancellor’s Fellowships in Edinburgh
(Originally posted by Mark Sprevak over at Brains.)
Chancellor’s Fellowships
Humanities and Social Science
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, a global top 20 University located in one of the world’s fine cities, is making a major investment in the future of its academic staff with the appointment of prestigious tenure-track Fellowships across all disciplines. These 5-year Fellowships are intended to support outstanding candidates at the start of their independent academic career. Up to 100 positions are available.
A Chancellor’s Fellow will already show the ability to conduct world-leading research and exhibit clear potential to become an international leader in their discipline. The Fellow will be able to concentrate on research in the first instance, acquiring the full duties of University Lecturer across the period of the Fellowship. Subject to satisfactory review at the end of 3 years, the Fellow will move to an open contract on the University academic staff.
Appointment will normally be made on the Lecturer scale (£36,862 - £44,016), dependent on experience, and in exceptional circumstances a more senior appointment may be made. Some positions are available with immediate effect and it is expected that successful applicants will be in post from August 2012.
Applications containing a detailed CV and a 1-page outline of a proposed research programme should be made online at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk to meet one of the closing dates below. General advice may be obtained by emailing chancellorsfellows@ed.ac.uk and specific details may be obtained from the appropriate Head of School.
Salary Scale: £36,862 - £44,016
Please quote vacancy reference: 3015150JW
Closing dates: 16 January, 29 February and 16 April 2012
Chancellor’s Fellowships
Humanities and Social Science
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, a global top 20 University located in one of the world’s fine cities, is making a major investment in the future of its academic staff with the appointment of prestigious tenure-track Fellowships across all disciplines. These 5-year Fellowships are intended to support outstanding candidates at the start of their independent academic career. Up to 100 positions are available.
A Chancellor’s Fellow will already show the ability to conduct world-leading research and exhibit clear potential to become an international leader in their discipline. The Fellow will be able to concentrate on research in the first instance, acquiring the full duties of University Lecturer across the period of the Fellowship. Subject to satisfactory review at the end of 3 years, the Fellow will move to an open contract on the University academic staff.
Appointment will normally be made on the Lecturer scale (£36,862 - £44,016), dependent on experience, and in exceptional circumstances a more senior appointment may be made. Some positions are available with immediate effect and it is expected that successful applicants will be in post from August 2012.
Applications containing a detailed CV and a 1-page outline of a proposed research programme should be made online at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk to meet one of the closing dates below. General advice may be obtained by emailing chancellorsfellows@ed.ac.uk and specific details may be obtained from the appropriate Head of School.
Salary Scale: £36,862 - £44,016
Please quote vacancy reference: 3015150JW
Closing dates: 16 January, 29 February and 16 April 2012
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Embodied Cognition at Oxford Bibliographies Online
Embodiment and Embodied Cognition
by Stephen Flusberg, Lera Boroditsky
Requires a subscription to see the whole deal.
Link.
by Stephen Flusberg, Lera Boroditsky
Requires a subscription to see the whole deal.
Link.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Systematicity and the Post-Connectionist Era, from MIT Press
So, Paco Calvo and John Symons are getting together a selection of papers based on their workshop from last summer. It will be published by MIT Press and feature contributions from Tony Chemero, Brian McLaughlin, Steven Philips, and me.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture by Edward Slingerland
What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism’s harshest critics.In short, Edward Slingerland argues that, in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences – in particular research on human cognition – which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the “blank slate” theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the humanities-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture.
Edward Slingerland taught in the School of Religion and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California, where he was recipient of the 2002 General Education Teaching Award. He is currently an associate professor of Asian Studies and a Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and EmbodiedCog-nition at the University of British Columbia. His previous books include The Analects of Confucius and Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, which won the American Academy of Religion’s 2003 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award.
Edward Slingerland taught in the School of Religion and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California, where he was recipient of the 2002 General Education Teaching Award. He is currently an associate professor of Asian Studies and a Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and EmbodiedCog-nition at the University of British Columbia. His previous books include The Analects of Confucius and Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, which won the American Academy of Religion’s 2003 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award.
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