Eastern APA Affiliate Group Meeting
Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Eastern APA Affiliate Group Meeting, 1/8/25
Philosophy & Neuroscience Workgroup

Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Eastern APA Affiliate Group Meeting, 1/8/25

We will focus on the interaction of experiment-making and theory-making. In multi-disciplinary projects, the ontological, epistemological and metaphysical commitments of the interacting disciplines have to be reconciled…

If you will be attending the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New Orleans this year, we invited you to join us at one or both of the Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Workgroup affiliate meetings.

This meeting will explore work on the scientific, medical-ethical, legal, and political dimensions of gender identity. The goal is to foster interdisciplinary research on gender identity between scholars in the sciences and humanities to promote the development of a holistic perspective.

This work group meeting will explore neuroscientific and philosophical work on gender identity and its relation to constructs like ‘neural sex differences’ and ‘sexual orientation’. It aims to familiarize neuroscientists and philosophers with work on these topics in their respective fields and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in their study.

The Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Workgroup kicked off the Spring 2023 conference season with Marco Nathan’s “Author Meets Critics” session at the Central APA in Denver (February 22-25). Marco’s book (Oxford University Press, 2021) is Black Boxes: How Science Read more

Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup Philosophy and Neuroscience Graduate Student Showcase I 2022 Pacific APA Meeting Vancouver, British Columbia April 13 & 14 Patricia Churchland and James Woodward were scheduled to comment, but were unable to attend. Megan Delehanty Read more

Wednesday April 7, 2021 the Workgroup held its Pacific APA meeting featuring three talks on Philosophy of Neuroscience: Pathways, Processes and Representations.