Conscious experiences \;occupy a \;central position in our mental lives. Imagine how \; our \;lives \;would be impoverished if we cannot see colors\, smell \;odors\, \;experience emotions\, etc. Analogously\, \;third-person phenomenal \;mindreading\, \;i.e.\, the \;ability to attribute conscious \;experiences to other individuals\, \;plays a \;fundamental \;role in understanding others. Indeed\, the ability to \;recognize \;whether someone is feeling pain\, or is experiencing disgust is \;arguably as \;important as the ability to attribute \;beliefs \;and desires. \;Importantly\, human \;beings are also \;able to \;attribute conscious \;experiences to \;themselves. For \;example\, when an adult human being experiences sadness\, she is \;also typically \;able to determine that she is having such \;an \;experience. In a \;nutshell\, human \;beings also perform \;first-person phenomenal mindreading. The aim \;of this \;conference is to investigate first-person and \;third-person \;phenomenal \;mindreading from an interdisciplinary point of \;view \;that \;combines philosophy\, \;psychology and neuroscience. \;In doing so\, we intend to address \;some of the most \;puzzling and open questions and problems in this area. \;
\nWe invite submissions \;from philosophy and empirical science \;for \;papers \;(25+10 min) and posters related to the topics of the conference.
\nPlease submit an extended abstract of 1000 words to phenmind@rub.de
Exemplary topics:
- Introspection of phenomenal states
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying phenomenal mindreading - Relation between attributing phenomenal states and intentional states \;
- Reliability of phenomenal mindreading
- Emotion attribution and empathy
- \;Ascription of pain and bodily sensations - Disorders of phenomenal mindreading
- Attribution of conscious experience to robots\, humans and non-human animals
- Phenomenal concepts and the language of phenomenal mindreading
CONTACT: phenmind@rub.de
ORGANIZER;CN=Luca Barlassina;CN=Kevin Reuter;CN=Albert Newen;CN=Markus Werning: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR