We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for \;papers to be presented at a workshop aimed at bringing together \;research from across discipline boundaries.
\nAbstracts for submission for either workshop should be no more than 750 \;words (exc. Bibliography)\, prepared for blind review. Please include a \;separate cover page including name\, address\, contact information\, current \;institution\, publications\, and current position. Abstracts should be \;suited for a presentation of no longer than 25 minutes. Abstracts should \;be submitted in Microsoft Word\, PDF or similar. Please e-mail submissions \;to \;j.t.m.miller@durham.ac.uk. We hope to have at least three slots per \;workshop for graduate speakers.
Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.
Applicants will be notified of whether their papers have been accepted or \;not by the end of March.
Some funding for graduate speakers to help cover travel and accommodation \;costs may be available (with thanks to the Analysis Trust). All accepted \;speakers will be considered for funding.
Speakers: Ned Block (NYU)\, Bob Kentridge (Durham)\, Catherine Tallon-Baudry \;(UPMC)\, James Stazicker (Reading).
Whilst consciousness has seemed to many to be so utterly baffling that it \;was best left to philosophers to address\, attention has until recently \;been studied almost exclusively by the empirical sciences and (with a few \;exceptions) has not really been addressed by philosophers. Now this is \;changing\, and an interesting and fruitful dialogue has recently opened up \;between philosophers and empirical scientists.
All of these researchers are turning their efforts toward understanding \;consciousness and attention together\, rather than attempting to tackle \;them separately. It is this interdisciplinary dialogue that this \;conference hopes to contribute to.