The "New Work in the Theory of Mind" graduate conference aims to bring together students and researchers in order advance our understanding of how we come to interact\, either by using a theory of mind framework or by emerging alternative accounts.
\nThe conference will take place 10-11 February 2023. \;It will have a mixed format\, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only or face to face at the event's location (if so\, their session will enjoy a live audience\, but it will also be streamed to remote participants).
\nKeynote speakers:
\nShaun Gallagher (University of Memphis and University of Wollongong)
\nDaniel Hutto (University of Wollongong)
\nTopic areas:
\nProgramme: \; (All times below are for \;Bucharest\, Romania.)
\nFriday\, February 10
\n08:45 Opening remarks (Andrei Mărăşoiu\, University of Bucharest\, hybrid)
\n9.00 Keynote Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong\, online)\, &ldquo\;Where Are We Now? Rival Possibilities and Frameworks&rdquo\;
\n10:30 Alan Jurgens (University of Wollongong\, online)\, &ldquo\;Theories of Mind and False-Belief Task Know-How&rdquo\;
\nLunch break
\n15.00 Marco Facchin (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori IUSS Pavia\, online) &\; Zuzanna Rucinska (Antwerp University\, online)\, &ldquo\;Enactive Pretending without Folk Psychology&rdquo\;
\n15:55 David Sá\;nchez (University of Granada\, online)\, &ldquo\;Ecological Mindshaping. From Attention to Intention and Social Cognition&rdquo\;
\n16:50 Agata Machcewicz-Grad (University of Warsaw\, online)\, &ldquo\;Escaping Embodied Social Cognition: in Defence of Mindreading&rdquo\;
\n17:45 \;Roundtable \; \;
\nSaturday\, February 11
\n12:00 Elizabeth Beckman (University of Michigan\, hybrid)\, &ldquo\;Moral Responsibility for Empathic Failures&rdquo\;
\n12:55 Sandra Brâ\;nzaru (University of Bucharest\, hybrid)\, &ldquo\;What is Narrative Competence?&rdquo\;
\nLunch break
\n16: 55 Cătălin Teoharie (University of Bucharest\, hybrid)\, &ldquo\;New approach in Theory of Mind using the Free Energy Principle Framework&rdquo\;
\n17:50 Nimra Asif (University of Connecticut\, online)\, &ldquo\;Minimal Theory of Mind and Pushmi-pullyu Representations&rdquo\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\n18:45 Keynote Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis\, online)\, &ldquo\;Interaction in the Wild&rdquo\;
\n\;20:15 Roundtable
\nFor any questions\, please don't hesitate to email \;theoryofmindconference@gmail.com You may register at the same address (or by RSVP here on PhilEvents) on or before February 8th in order to receive the Zoom connection details.
\nThe conference is organized with the support of graduate students in the &ldquo\;Mind the Brain&rdquo\; master&rsquo\;s programme in cognitive science within the Department for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. More details about the programme are available here: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/master-of-arts-in-cognitive-science-mind-the-brain/
\nThe conference is at its second edition\, following the &ldquo\;Consciousness and Reality&rdquo\; graduate conference organized in June 2022\, which enjoyed keynote talks from Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest)\, Gualtiero Picinnini (University of \; \;Missouri) and Hong Yu Wong (University of Tȕbingen). More details about that conference are available here: https://philevents.org/event/show/99970
\nFor those of you who would like to join some of the meetings but have overlapping commitments\, we will do our best to record the meetings whenever everyone in attendance consents to it\, and to then upload the recordings on the Department's YouTube channel. Previous talks are available here: \;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q
\nStay tuned\, as there will be weekly announcements concerning the titles and abstracts of upcoming talks on the Facebook page titled "Seminarul Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretica UniBuc". \;Some of the department's recent events are also listed at https://philevents.org/event/show/105249 for 2022-23 and at \; https://philevents.org/event/show/93365 for 2021-22.
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