Pre-reflective and Reflective Processing in Social Interaction

This meeting will bring together neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers interested in the mechanisms underlying social behaviour with the aim of exploring the role of pre-reflective/implicit and reflective/explicit processes of social interaction. In particular, the meeting will combine  researchers dedicated to more traditional Theory of Mind accounts, who have largely focused on reflective processes in social cognition, with proponents of an approach that emphasises pre-reflective enactment and engagement in social interactions. The workshop focuses on the conceptual and theoretical contributions of these two approaches to our understanding of social interactions. In addition, the meeting aims to explore whether different theoretical assumptions are needed to understand cooperative and competitive interactions.

Please note: The capacity of the workshop is limited to 35 participants. Priority will therefore be given to those who are actively involved in relevant research and who will present a poster. Details on poster submission can be found below.

Invited Speakers:

Ian Apperly (Birmingham)
Louise Barrett (Lethbridge)
Harold Bekkering (Nijmengen)
Stephen Butterfill (Warwick)
Chris Frith (Aarhus/Oxford)
Bence Nanay (Antwerp)
Søren Overgaard (Copenhagen)
Natalie Sebanz (Nijmegen)
Marc Slors (Nijmegen)

Registration/Poster submission:

If you would like to present a poster at the workshop please submit a short abstract of no more then 500 words to Christoph Teufel ([email protected]) by February 15th (***note deadline in two weeks***). If you would like to attend the workshop without presenting a poster please send an e-mail to the above address, indicating how your research is relevant to the topic of the workshop. Successful applicants will be sent an invitation to attend by February 20th. We regret that we cannot subsidise travel or accommodation for poster presenters. However, there will be no conference fee and you will be invited to the dinner at Clare College on Tuesday, March 13th.

This meeting is organised by Vivian Bohl, Marion Godman, Mog Stapleton, Christoph Teufel, Wouter van den Bos, and Marijn van Wingerden. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of a network grant from the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities.