"Recent work on attention" workshop
Workshop
A workshop featuring leading philosophers and cognitive scientists working on Attention and surrounding topics. Program: 09:00 - 09:15 Intro & Welcome 09:15 - 10:30 Chris Mole “The imperative to attend” 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 - 12:15 Julia Haas “Attention, reward, and value” 12:…
Philosophy Workshop: Some Recent Stuff on the Imagination
Activity
Timetable: 9.30: Coffee and Welcome 10.00-11.30: Jennifer Windt (Monash): “Mental simulation in sleep: Towards an integrative theory of dream imagery formation” 11.45-1.15: Daniel Stoljar (ANU): “Imagining-how” Lunch 2.30-4.00: Talia Morag (Deakin): “Towards a New Associationism” 4.15—5.45:…
Reflexive Theories of Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Workshop
Other
Details Reflexive Theories of Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Workshop aims to initiate a cross-cultural dialogue between leading philosophers of mind working in Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. The focus of the workshop will be the reflexivity of consciousness. A central…
Daniel Stoljar (ANU): Is Consciousness a Proper Object of Scientific Investigation?
Other
This paper presents and discusses an argument that consciousness is not a proper object of scientific investigation. I won't endorse the argument but I will suggest (a) that the conclusion of the argument could really be true; (b) that the argument may be resisted only at some cost; and (c)…
Bronwyn Finnigan (Centre for Consciousness, ANU): Should we be Pluralists about Buddhist Ethics?
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Recent critical engagement with Buddhist philosophy recognizes that the term ‘Buddhism’ represents a diversity of philosophical systems. It is increasingly apparent that there is no one Buddhist view on metaphysics, epistemology, and the nature of mind and cognition at a subtle level of analysis.…
Bruin Christensen (ANU): Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Essential Indexicality
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Dan Zahavi argues for a Sartrean conception of consciousness which he regards as endorsed by numerous other thinkers in the phenomenological tradition and as superior to both contemporary “higher-order” and “one-level” (neo-)Brentanian conceptions. As Zahavi points out, all three conceptions—the…