CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars

Provisional Programme of the presentation of short-listed papers
and prize winning ceremony

Edinburgh June 27th

 

Abstracts of the shortlisted essays

 

09:00-09:30             Opening remarks by the award organizers
                        Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma), Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway University London), Till Vierkant (University of Edinburgh)


09:30-10:25             Searching for the Source of Executive Attention
Commentary by Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh


10:25-10:40             Coffee break


10:40-11:35             The Minimal Sense of Self, Temporality and the Brain
Commentary by Mike Wheeler, University of Stirling


11:35-12:30             On the Necessity of Bodily Awareness for Bodily Action
Commentary by Thomas Goschke, Technical University of Dresden


12:30-13:45             Lunch


13:45-14:40             Acting On (Bodily) Experience
Commentary by Tim Bayne, Oxford University


14:40-14:55             Coffee break


14:55-15:50             The Agent in Magenta: Action, Colour and Consciousness
Commentary by Tim Bayne, Oxford University


15:50-16:45            Indicative Conditionals and Rationality
Commentary by Joëlle Proust, Institut Jean-Nicod Paris



16:45-17:00             Coffee break


17:00-18:00             Prize awarding by Eva Hoogland (ESF) and final comments by Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)

Note: Since the selection of the two prize-winning papers is still under way, the names of the authors are kept anonymous at this stage. These papers were short-listed via peer-review out of a pool of 43 eligible submissions to the CNCC contest.

 

For information about the location of the conference, travel, accommodation and registration see the main conference website.