Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness Symposium

A two-day symposium will be held at the University of Tokyo (Komaba campus) on the weekend of July 30-31st, immediately after the 31st International Congress of Psychology in Yokohama. All are welcome. Registration is required, but free (using the form at the conference website). The symposium is sponsored by the Philosophy of Disability and Co-existence Project (L2 project) of The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy's Uehiro Research Divison for Philosophy of Co-existence.

Organizers: Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University) and John O'Dea (University of Tokyo) 

Contact: [email protected]

Website:http://www.phil-of-mind.tokyo/

Talks

July 30th (Saturday)

11am-12:30pm: Akiko Frischhut (Akita International University)

     - Presentism and Temporal Experience.

2:00-3:30pm: Graham Peebles (University of Geneva)

     - Targetless States: No New Problem for The Higher-Order Theory

4:00-5:30pm: Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University)

     - Perception without presentational phenomenology.

July 31th (Sunday)

11am-12:30pm: Phillip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)

     - Pathologies of Self Awareness. Pain Asymbolia and Depersonalisation

2:00-3:30pm: Rachel Gunn (University of Birmingham)

     - Delusion – a philosophical conceptualisation from original empirical work.

4:00-5:30pm: Kathy Puddifoot (University of Birmingham)

     - Mindreading, Stereotyping and Mental Illness