Self and Other in Social Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

Organised by the CONTACT Project, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh and
the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

23rd and 24th November 2007

 
Picasso-girl in mirror

 

How can one mind know the content of other minds? Recently, what seemed to be intractable philosophical problems have been assumed to have been solved by neuroscience through the discovery of a mirror neuron system used to comprehend actions, intentions and emotions. Has neuroscience found the neural basis of intersubjectivity? If so, can philosophers make use of these findings to explain how the gap between self and other is bridged?

The conference and CNCC networking
meeting will be held at:

Institute of Philosophy
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
UK

The organisers are Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh), Barry Smith (Birkbeck), and Tim Crane (UCL).

 

 

Provisional Programme

Public Conference 23rd November

Barry Smith (Birkbeck)
Title TBA

Patrick Haggard (UCL)
"Self-Consciousness and Somatosensation"

Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod)
"The Phenomenology of Joint Agency"

Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan)
"Mirror Neurons and Motor Intentionality"

Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod)
Title TBA

Evan Thompson (Toronto)
"Brain in a Vat or Body in a World? On the Biological Requirements of Self"

CNCC Meeting 24th November


Thomas Metzinger (Mainz)
"Correlated Conscious First-Person Perspectives"

Nico Frijda (Amsterdam)
"How do we Recognise Emotions in Others"

Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen)
"Self and Other: Lessons from Phenomenology"

Johannes Brandl (Salzburg)
"Symmetries and Asymmetries in our Understanding of Ourselves and of Others"

Frederique de Vignemont (ICS, Lyon)
"Action Observation and Execution:
What is Shared?"

Dorothée Legrand (CSR, Copenhagen)
"What is Self-Specific? Theoretical and Empirical Arguments"


 

 
 
This conference is organised by CONTACT Edinburgh and the Institute of Philosophy and forms a part of the EUROCORES programme “Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context" and is funded by the European Science Foundation.

 

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