Philosophical workshop on consciousness
Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 February, 2016
To coincide with the philosopher Peter Boltuc’s visit to Paris, we are hosting an informal philosophical workshop on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th February, co-organised with Sciences, Normes, Décision (SND), Paris-Sorbonne.
The workshop will address the hard problem of consciousness, sensorimotor theory, and other topics.
Venue: Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception,
Paris 5 University, Room 229, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris
All welcome, no registration fee. For queries, please email davsil@gmail.com.
Advance registration is not essential, but to help us have an idea of numbers, please email if you plan to attend.
Schedule:
Monday 15 February:
(organised by David Silverman, FEEL project)
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Peter Boltuc – Hard Consciousness Revisited
11:00 – 12:00 Kevin O’Regan – Updates to the Sensorimotor Theory
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch buffet
14:00 – 15:00 David Silverman – The Extended Conscious Mind, Extended
15:00 – 16:00 Jan Degenaar – Language and Consciousness: A Sensorimotor Perspective
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Martin Fultot – Putting Back the “Tension” in Intentionality.
17:00 – 18:00 Victor Loughlin – Access denied: Sensorimotor Theory and later Wittgenstein
Tuesday 16 February:
(Organised by Emile Thalabard, SND, Paris-Sorbonne)
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Emile Thalabard – Circling Around the Hard Problem
10:30 – 11:00 Olof Soderlind – Intellectualism
11:00 – 11:30 Yoann Haettich – Non-homogeneous moral spaces
11:30 – 12:30 Q&A and discussion with Peter Boltuc
12:30 Lunch provided