Programme |
Provisional programme
Tuesday 7 July
11.00-1.00: Registration/ tea and coffee
1.00-2.00: Session 1
Leemon McHenry (California State University, Northridge)
Sprigge’s Ontology of Consciousness
2.00-3.00: Session 2
Pierfrancesco Basile (University of Bern)
It must be true—but how can it be? Some Remarks on Panpsychism and Mental Composition
3.00-3.30: tea/coffee break
3.30-4.30: Session 3: Parallel (A and B)
(A) Alastair Hannay (University of Oslo)
The Space We Share: Phenomenology and Metaphysics
(B) Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center)
What is a Mental State?
4.30-5.30: Session 4
Galen Strawson (University of Reading)
Fundamental Singleness: How to Turn the 2nd Paralogism into a Valid
Argument
7.00: Dinner
Wednesday 8 July
9.00-10.00: Session 5
Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
Explaining Consciousness: From Emergentism to A Priori Physicalism
10.00-11.00: Session 6
William Seager (University of Toronto)
Concessionary Dualism and Physicalism
11.00-11.30: tea break
11.30-12.30: Session 7
Brian P. McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
Consciousness, Identity, and Explanation
12.30-1.30: lunch
1.30-2.30: Session 8: Parallel (C & D)
(C) Fred Adams (University of Delaware)
Consciousness: Why and Where?
(D) Geoffrey Madell (University of Edinburgh)
Substance Dualism: You Know it Makes Sense
2.30-3.30: Session 9: Parallel (E & F)
(E) Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)
How Consciousness Can Safely Emerge
(F) David Cockburn (University of East Anglia)
Doubts About "Consciousness”
3.30-4.00-: tea break
4.00-5.00: Session 10
Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)
Locating the Conscious Mind
5.00-6.00: Session 11
Howard Robinson (Central European University, Budapest)
Quality, Thought and Consciousness
6.30-7.30: reception and dedication of Timothy Sprigge Room
8.00: Conference dinner
Thursday 9 July
9.00-10.00: Session 12
Stephen Clark (University of Liverpool)
How to Become Unconscious
10.00-11.00: Session 13: Parallel (G & H)
(G) Eduard Marbach (University of Bern)
Is there a Metaphysics of Consciousness without a Phenomenology of Consciousness? Some thoughts derived from Husserl's Philosophical Phenomenology
(H) Brenda Almond (University of Hull)
Religious Consciousness: Revisiting the God of the Philosophers
11.00-11.30: tea break
11.30-12.30: Session 14: Parallel (I & J)
(I) Julian Kiverstein (University of Edinburgh)
The Metaphysics of Time Consciousness
(J) James Giles (University of Guam)
The Metaphysics of Awareness in Taoist philosophy
12.30-1.30: lunch
1.30-2.30: Session 15
Tim Crane (University College London)
Consciousness as Predicated of Human Beings
2.30-3.30: Session 16
Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)
Phenomenal Holism
3.30-4.00: coffee/tea
4.00-5.00: Session 17
Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)
Consciousness for Four-Dimensionalists
6.30 pm: Dinner
Conference Committee
Pauline Phemister, Philosophy, Edinburgh (p.phemister@ed.ac.uk)
Leemon McHenry, Philosophy, California State University, Northridge (leemon.mchenry@csun.edu)
Jesper Kallestrup, Philosophy, Edinburgh (jesper.kallestrup@ed.ac.uk)
Julian Kiverstein, Philosophy, Edinburgh (julian.kiverstein@ed.ac.uk)
Pierfrancesco Basile, Philosophy, University of Bern (pierfrancesco.basile@philo.unibe.ch)
The conference is sponsored by:
The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Mind Association
Scots Philosophical Club
The British Society for the History of Philosophy