Profile of poet Milorad Pejić, only on Bibliotekos. Truly wonderful.

http://www.ebibliotekos.com/2014/11/letter-from-poet.html

My latest book, Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature has been published. Please ask your library to order. (Moderator: not sure if we allowed to make such announcements – if verboten please delete – though the book is of interest to my groups.)…[Read more]

Registration is now open for #MLA15. Hope to see you in Vancouver!

Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, June 10-12, 2015. St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY, USA. Abstracts (1 page) are invited. Deadline 1 April 2015. http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/conference2015.html

Have an essay for us? Ethical Behavior and Evolutionary Biology – how about Skeptical Empiricism? http://asebl.blogspot.com/p/about.html

The editors of ASEBL Journal (literature, ethics, and evolution) invite queries for the January 2015 issue – sooner rather than later if possible. Issues are housed on the St. Francis College (NY) website http://www.sfc.edu/page.cfm?p=3993. Before query or submission, please review the About tab on the blog http://asebl.blogspot.com/p/about.html…[Read more]

Tomasello on the Natural History of Thinking – a review on ASEBL. http://asebl.blogspot.com/2014/06/tomasello-on-natural-history-of.html

Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives – a review on ASEBL. http://asebl.blogspot.com/2014/06/understanding-moral-sentiments-review.html

Sixth international conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. 10-12 June 2015. http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/conference2015.html

Thank you to everyone who voted on resolution 2014-1. As you will have heard, the resolution got 60% of the votes in its favor but did not pass because it did not reach the minimum of 10% of the membership required (by a recent rule). This still counts as a major victory. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd:
Academics Vote for Freedom of Movement…[Read more]

Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!

Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]