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Self and Other in Social Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind 2
Alghero, Sardinia
Sunday 26th October - Tuesday 28th October 2008
Funded by European Science Foundation
Consciousness in the Natural and Cultural Context Programme:
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The organisers are :
Fabio Bacchini (Sassari)
Andy Clark (Edinburgh)
Eva Hoogland (ESF)
Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh)
Corrado Sinigaglia (Milano)
Silvano Tagliagambe (Sassari)
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Philosophers have for along time been puzzled by how we can acquire knowledge of other minds. We seem to know our own minds directly and immediately while the minds of others seem hidden, knowable by us only through reasoning based on observed behaviour. The discovery of the mirror neuron system in the macaque monkey and subsequently in humans has suggested to some an alternative picture of the relation between self and other.
Mirror neurons are neurons that respond both when an action is observed and when it is initiated, pointing to a tight connection in the brain between perceiving and doing the same thing. The activation of these neurons is commonly understood as a matching of sensory representations of actions with motor representations of those actions. Some have claimed that this matching makes it possible for us to immediately understand the goals and intentions of others. Sceptics have responded that matching of sensory and motor representations depends on a prior interpretation of action arrived at by reasoning about the other's mental states.
Does action understanding require a capacity for mentalising or reasoning about the mental states of others or could mirror neuron activity constitute an ontogenetically and phylogenetically more basic means of understanding others? The aim of this workshop will be to explore these questions and other more general questions about the nature of self and its relations to others from the perspective of philosophy, neuroscience and developmental psychology.
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Speakers:
Johannes Brandl
(Philosophy, Salzburg)
Tim Crane
(Philosophy, UCL)
Elena Deprati
(Cognitive Neuroscience, Rome)
Shaun Gallagher
(Philosophy & Cognitive Science, University of Central Florida/Hertfordshire)
Pierre Jacob
(Cognitive Science, Institut Jean Nicod)
Julian Kiverstein
(Philosophy, Edinburgh)
Erik Rietveld
(Philosophy, Harvard)
Jean-Michel Roy
(Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon)
Corrado Sinigaglia
(Philosophy, Milan)
Barry Smith
(Philosophy, Birkbeck)
Jessica Sommerville
(Centre for Mind, Brain and Learning, Washington University)
Manos Tsakiris
(Psychology, Royal Holloway, London)
Frederique de Vignemont
(Cognitive Science, Institut Jean Nicod)
To register visit:
http://www.architettura.uniss.it/article/articleview/1374/1/30/
Or email:
j.kiverstein@ed.ac.uk
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This conference is organised by CONTACT Edinburgh and the University of Sassari, Faculty of Architecture, 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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