Jesse Prinz

The IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society and the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA) invite submissions on any aspect of the work of the invited guest for the XXIIth edition of the SIUCC, Jesse Prinz, for presentations at the conference, to be held in San Sebastián on September, 6-8, 2012. (Visit the webs of the conference, http://siucc2012.ias-research.net/and http://www.sefaweb.es/siucc.html)

Jesse Prinz (B.A. New York University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.  He is also director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies there, and he has held appointments at the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford, California Institute of Technology, the University of London, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and at the University of North Carolina, where he held a named professorship.  His research focuses on the perceptual, emotional, and cultural foundations of human psychology.  He is author of Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perception Basis (MIT, 2002), Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (Oxford, 2004), The Emotional Construction of Morals (Oxford), Beyond Human Nature (Penguin/Norton, 2011), and The Conscious Brain (Oxford, 2012), along with two edited volumes.  All of these books bring research in the cognitive sciences to bear on traditional philosophical questions.  Prinz’s work is a contemporary extension of the classical empiricist tradition in philosophy, which emphasises experience, rather than innate knowledge and disembodied, amodal representations in thought.

The SIUCC (Seminario Interuniversitario de Ciencia Cognitiva) annual conferences are three-day workshops, intended to focus on the contributions of an influential philosopher, which have been organized by the Spanish Analytic Community for the past 20 years, under the auspices of the SEFA (http://www.sefaweb.es/) since the creation of the society in 1994. Invited speakers are asked to present three papers, which can be new material or a revision of former work. The seminar intends to trigger discussion and debate through the presentation of 9-12 contributions related to philosophical topics of the invited speakers' work.

Organizing Committee: Agustín Vicente (Ikerbasque/University of the Basque Country), Arantza Etxeberria (University of the Basque Country), Antonio Casado da Rocha (University of the Basque Country), Xabier Barandiaran (University of the Basque Country).