Program -2010

The Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference is now oficially closed. You can still view the presentations and discussion (just click on the title of the presentation) but no new comments will be allowed.

We again had a very active conference this year with nearly 14,000 hits (a roughly 27% increase from last year) and 295 comments in the sessions. That’s pretty good! Selected papers, along with new commentaries and author responses, from this conference are now published in a special issue of Consciousness and Cognition which came out in June 2012

Welcome & Opening Remarks –Richard Brown, Conference Organizer

Special Session on Higher-Order Consciousness

1. Hakwan Lau, Columbia University

   Sensory Awareness and Perceptual Certainty

   Commentators:
   Ned Block, New York University
   David Rosenthal, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   David Chalmers, Australian National University/New York university

Invited Colloquium on the State of the Art in Brain Decoding

1. Colin Clifford, University of Sydney

   What Can Brain Decoding tell us about Consciousness?

Contributed Sessions

1. Matthew Conduct, Durham University, UK

   Naive Realism Without Disjunctivism about Experience

   Commentators:
   Michelle Montague, University of Bristol
   Susanna Siegel, Harvard University
2. Keith Frankish, The Open University, UK

   Qualia: The Real Thing

   Commentators:
   Richard Brown, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
   Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College
3. Philip Goff, University of Hertfordshire, UK

   Ghosts and Sparse Properties

   Commentators:
   Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri
   Esa Diaz-Leon, Manitoba University, Canada
4. Dan Lloyd, Trinity College

   Neural Correlates of Temporality: Default Mode Variability and State-Dependent Temporal Awareness

   Commentators:
   Geoffrey Lee, University of California, Berkeley
   Michal Klincewicz, The Graduate Center, CUNY
5. Pete Mandik, William Paterson University

   Color-Consciousness Conceptualism

   Commentators:
   Philippe Chuard, Southern Methodist University
   Jacob Berger & David Pereplyotchik, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   Charlie Pelling, Birkbeck College, University of London
6. Joseph Neisser, Grinnell College

   Correlates, Causes, and the Neurobiology of Consciousness

   Commentators:
   Jakob Hohwy, Monash University, Australia
7. Adam Pautz, University of Texas, Austin

   Why Consciousness Can’t Just be in the Head: A New Argument against Biological Theories

   Commentators:
   Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University
   Thomas Polger & Doug Keaton, University of Cincinnati
8. Stephane Savanah, Macquarie University, Australia

   The Concept Possession Hypothesis of Self-Consciousness

   Commentators:
   James Dow, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   Kristina Musholt, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
9. Carolyn Suchy-Dicey, Boston University

   Inductive Skepticism and the Methodological Argument

   Commentators:
   Jennifer Corns, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley
10. Brian Talbot, University of Colorado, Bolder

    The irrelevance of Folk Intuitions to the ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness

    Commentators:
    Justin Sytsma & Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburg
    Bryce Huebner, Georgetown University