December: Justin was featured in the fourth issue
of the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences
newsletter, Snapshot.
The article, "Asking the Big Questions," can be found here.
December: Justin will be chairing a symposium on "Experimental Philosophy
of Consciousness" at the Southern Society for Philosophy
and Psychology 101st annual meeting (April, 2009); his contribution
to the symposium is on "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness ."
November: Spring semester, 2009, Justin will be teaching an upper division
course on "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science";
over the summer he will be teaching "Problem Solving: How
Science Works."
October: Justin will speak at the 2009 meeting of the APA Pacific Division
on the topic of, "The
Case of the Divergent Descriptions: An Experimental Investigation
of Semantics, Cross-cultural Style."
September: Justin will give a featured presentation on "The Proper Province
of Philosophy" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary Approach
to Philosophical Issues conference in September; will discuss
"The Case of the Divergent Descriptions" at the 24th
Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science in
October; and will ask, "Is phenomenal consciousness a problem
for the brain sciences?" at the 2008 PSA biennial meeting
in November.
August: Justin was featured in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's "newsmaker"
section for his work in experimental philosophy and his winning
of the William James Prize: (here)
July: Justin has been awarded the William James Prize at the 2008 Society
for Philosophy and Psychology conference.
June: "How to study Folk Intuitions about Phenomenal Consciousness"
by J. Sytsma & E. Machery has been accepted for publication
in Philosophical Psychology.
June: Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma have been invited to discuss
"Philosophy and the Brain Sciences" for the premier
issue of the new philosophy of science journal, Iris.
May: Justin has been selected as the teaching mentor for TAs and TFs
in the HPS department for a second year.
April: Justin will present on "Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience"
at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008 in Tucson.
April: Justin has decided to start noting news and events; in doing so he will refer to himself in the third-person. |
