Imagination, Simulation, and the Self

What’s So Special about First-Person Thought? is an international network founded by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted by the University of Aberdeen. The project aims to investigate the philosophical significance of first-person thought by bringing together researchers with conflicting views on the topic.

Imagination, Simulation, and the Self is the project’s second conference and will be held at Tufts University, Lincoln Filene Hall, Raab Room on 5-6th July 2018.

The conference investigates imagination and other counterfactual attitudes from perspectives in philosophy of mind, linguistics, and cognitive science. The central focus will be on how the self is represented in imagination, simulation, and dreaming, as well as the role that such representations play in empathy and understanding.

Programme:

Thursday, July 5th, 2018

9:00am
Coffee and refreshments

9:30 -11:00am
Imagination and the Self
Dilip Ninan (Tufts University)

11:00 -11:10am
Coffee break

11:10am -12:40pm
The argument from counteridenticals
Hazel Pearson (Queen Mary University of London)

12:40 -1:40pm
Lunch

1:40 -3:40pm
Reverse Engineering the Self
Laurie Paul (UNC-Chapel Hill / St Andrews)
Josh Tenenbaun (MIT)
Tomer Ullman (MIT)

3:40 -4:00pm
Coffee break 

4:00 -5:30pm
Counterfactual Attitudes and Paired Propositions
Kyle Blumberg (NYU)

Friday, July 6th, 2018

9:00am
Coffee and refreshments

9:30 -11:00am
First-Person Imaginings
Stephan Torre (University of Aberdeen)

11:00 -11:10am
Coffee break

11:10am -12:40pm
Simulation and Normality
Joshua Knobe (Yale University)

12:40 -1:40pm
Lunch 

1:40 -3:40pm
Empathy, Communication and Understanding
Herman Cappelen (ConceptLab-Oslo / St Andrews)
Laurie Paul (UNC-Chapel Hill / St Andrews)

The conference is organised by Dilip Ninan, Stephan Torre and Irmina Zborowska.

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