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The successful applicant to this position will support this project by conducting original research that addresses one or both of these questions, and by helping with conference organization (along with supporting publications that might flow from these events). 6/n
Over the next several years, the Bertrand Russell Research Centre will host a series of workshops and conferences aimed at encouraging new research on these issues. 5/n
1. What can today’s philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists learn from forgotten, empirically-informed work from the past?
2. How did the rise of an independent science of mind influence the subsequent development of analytic philosophy? 4/n
We are building a new project at McMaster aimed at excavating philosophically-rich empirical work on mind from prior centuries. The project aims to address two key questions. 3/n
Empirical psychology gained a foothold as an independent scientific discipline around the turn of the 20th century. For reflection on mind conducted before that time, it can be intriguingly difficult to draw a clean line between the philosophical and the (natural) scientific. 2/n
Philosophy of mind that engages research in cognitive psychology is flourishing. But approaching philosophical questions in an empirically-informed way is not a new thing on the intellectual stage. 1/n
Let's put down that copy of Nature Neuroscience and go back to something falsifiable: William James!
Nobody describes phenomenology like William James. But his stream of consciousness flowed over a bedrock of empirical fact, from vivisection experiments to clinical observation. Behaviorism abandoned his weave of first and third person data; we're still catching back up today.
Frogs that survive decapitation are still capable of purposive action. What did William James learn from such cases about the function and evolution of consciousness? Out now: bit.ly/4fpGlU5.
So flu shots are out, measles are in?