Program -2012

February 17th-March 2nd 2012

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Invited Talk

Bernard Baars, The Neuroscience Institute

The Biological Cost of Consciousness

Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior

1. Marisa Carrasco, New York UniversityAttention Alters Perception
2. Floris P. de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior

   Shaping Perception by Attention and Expectation

3. Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia University

   Decision Mechanisms for Attention

Special Session on Action Consciousness organized by Myrto Mylopoulos, The Graduate Center CUNY

 

1. Élisabeth Pacherie, Institut Jean Nicod

   Time to Act: The Dynamics of Agency

   • Commentator:

   Markus Schlosser

   • , Leiden University

   John Michael

   , Aarhus University
2. Chris Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

   Explaining Delusions of Control: The Comparator Model 20 Years On

   Commentator:

• Patrick Haggard, University College LondonSpecial Session on the Developmental Conditions of Self Consciousness organized by James Dow, Hendrix College
  1. James Dow, Hendrix CollegeOn the Developmental Conditions of Self-Consciousness

      

  2. Peter Carruthers, Logan Fletcher, and J. Brendan Ritchie (all at) University of MarylandEvolving Self-Consciousness
     • Commentators:

     Joel Smith

     • , University of Manchester

     JeeLoo Liu

     , California State University, Fullerton

      

  3. Radu J. Bogdan, Tulane University

     Self-Consciousness: Executive Design, Sociocultural Grounds

     • Commentators:
     • Kyle Ferguson Graduate Center, CUNY

     Robert Lurz

     • , Brooklyn College, CUNY
     Henry Shevlin Graduate Center, CUNY

   

  Contributed Sessions

   

• Katalin Balog, Rutgers University Newark
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  Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Dilemma

  1. 1. Commentator:

  Bénédicte Veillet

  1. 1. , University of Michigan-Flint

  Elizabeth Schechter

  1. 1. , Washington University St. Louis

   

• Wesley Buckwalter, The Graduate Center, CUNY & Mark Phelan, Lawrence University
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  Does the S&M Robot Feel Guilty?

  1. 1. Commentator:

  Justin Sytsma

  1. 1. , East Tennessee State University

   

• Glenn Carruthers, Macquarie University and Elizabeth Schier, Macquarie University & Berlin School of Mind Brain
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  Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness

  1. 1. Commentator:

  Janet Levin

  1. 1. , University of Southern California

  Ellen Fridland

  1. 1. , Berlin School of Mind and Brain & Humboldt University of Berlin

  Jennifer Matey

  1. 1. , Florida International University

   

• Pete Mandik, William Paterson University
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  Conscious-State Anti-Realism

  1. 1. Commentators:

  Alex Kiefer

  1. 1. , The Gratuate Center, CUNY

  Daniel Kostic

  1. 1. , Berlin School of Mind and Brain

   

• Barbara Gail Montero, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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  Must Physicalism Imply the Supervienence of the Mental on the Physical?

  1. 1. Commentator:

  Robert Howell

  1. 1. , Southern Methodist University

  Gene Witmer

  1. 1. , University of Florida

  Frank Jackson

  1. 1. , Australia National University & Princeton University

   

• Adrienne Prettyman, University of Toronto
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  Empty Thoughts: An Explanatory Problem for Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness

  1. 1. Commentator:

  Richard Brown

  1. 1. , LaGuardia College, CUNY

   

• John Schwenkler, Mount St. Mary’s UniversityVision, Self-Location, and the Phenomenology of the ’Point of View’
  • Commentator:

  Kranti Saran

  • , Harvard & Jawaharlal Nehru University

  James Stazicker

  , NYU

   

• Miguel Sebastian, University of BarcelonaExperiential Awareness: Do You Prefer It to Me?
  • Commentator:

  Rocco Gennaro

  • , University of Southern Indiana

  Robert Lurz

  • , Brooklyn College, CUNY

  Kenneth Williford

  , University of Texas, Arlington