If you would like to come to the The Human Mind Conference, the deadline to register is Friday 12th May 23:00 GMT. It would be great to see you there!
THE HUMAN MIND CONFERENCE The Møller Centre, Cambridge Start: 12:30pm, 27th June 2017 End: 2:00pm, 29th June 2017 This is an international, interdisciplinary event bringing together a wide range of experts from across the humanities and cognitive sciences to discuss key aspects of mental life and experience. The Human Mind Conference will provide a major statement on the current state of knowledge in the study of the mind, and it will identify future directions of research for the years to come. To register, please visit our website here: www.humanmindconference.com/registration <http://www.humanmindconference.com/registration>. Speakers Huda Akil, Robyn Carston, Andy Clark, John-Dylan Haynes, Frances Egan, Chris Frith, Philip Gerrans, Patrick Haggard, Cecilia Heyes, Richard Holton, Tony Dickinson, Bob Kentridge, Mike Martin, Uta Noppeney, Lucy O’Brien, Anil Seth, Dan Zahavi. Chaired by: Nicola Clayton, Uta Frith, Pierre Jacob & Barry Smith. There will also be poster presentations from early career researchers. Themes and Questions The Conference will feature four sessions, each with a distinctive research focus: 1. Brain & World: Perception & Consciousness How are perception and consciousness understood by philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists, and what might we gain from a cross-disciplinary perspective? What are the relationships between perception, attention, and consciousness? How much of perception is unconscious, and what role does unconscious perception play in our mental lives? What has the search for neural correlates of consciousness achieved, and how might it be pursued in the future? 2. The Human Agent: Intention & Action How do human agents reason about what to do? What are the relationships between decision, intention and action? How can neuroscience and psychology shed light on philosophical questions about agency, such as the questions of free will and free action? What is the sense of agency and how should it be explained? 3. Self & Other: Social Cognition & Communication How do human language and communication work? How do human beings understand the minds of others? What kinds of skills, abilities or mechanisms sustain human social interactions? What role does culture play in the formation of the human mind? 4. The Subject’s Point of View: Intentionality & Emotion What is it for human thoughts and feelings to represent the world? What are the relationships between meaning, mental representation and information? What are the emotions? In what ways are they shaped by history and culture? How do the psychological and neural mechanisms of emotions underlie the subject’s point of view on the world? Organization The Human Mind Conference is jointly organized by New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project <http://www.newdirectionsproject.com/> at the University of Cambridge, and The Human Mind Project <http://humanmind.ac.uk/>, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It is supported by The John Templeton Foundation <http://templeton.org/> and the Higher Education Funding Council of England <http://www.hefce.ac.uk/> (HEFCE). Tim Crane (Cambridge) Colin Blakemore (London) Mattia Gallotti (London) Anna Hopkins (London) Alexander Greenberg (Cambridge) _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
