E-Approaches to Social Difference and Disparity Conference

E-Approaches to Social Difference and Disparity Conference

Wednesday & Thursday, March 13th & 14th 2019

Research Hub (Building 19, Room 2072b), University of Wollongong, NSW Australia

Registration ends 5th of March.

Given that embodied and enactive approaches to cognition put the lived body, intersubjectivity, and interaction at the very core of their research paradigms, discussions of how aspects of our lived identities can shape our cognitive processes would be a natural application. Despite this, there are only a few examples where e-approaches are used to directly discuss gender, race, disability, or sexuality. This conference will encourage discussion and further research on how e-approaches can take into account the particularities of social situatedness in perception, social cognition, and other cognitive processes.

Wednesday, March 13th 2019 – UOW Research Hub

10.00-11.00 Nick Brancazio (University of Wollongong)
Why We Need Feminist Philosophies of E-Cognition

11.00-12.00 Rob Wilson (La Trobe University)
The Social Mechanics of Eugenics: Two Examples

12.00-1.00 Lunch Break

1.00-1.45 Anya Daly (University of Melbourne)
Feminism, grounding and enactivism - the too-hard basket?

1.45-2.30 Graham Wood (University of Tasmania)
E-morality: can enactive and embodied approaches to cognition help understand the linguistic analogy in moral psychology, and can all these research programs help explain moral relativism?

2.30-3.00 Coffee/Tea/Refreshments

3.00-4.00 Glenda Satne (University of Wollongong)
Group Minds and Social Identities

4.00-4.45 Miguel Segundo Ortin (University of Wollongong)
Tackling social differences at their econiche

Thursday, March 14th 2019 – UOW Research Hub

10.00-11.00 Elena Cuffari (Worcester State University)
"Billions of different bodies" interacting: heteronomy, asymmetry, responsibility

11.00-12.00 Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis/Wollongong)
Over the top: Ideal theory and social perception

12.00-1.00 Lunch Break

1.00-1.45 Denisa Butnaru (Universität Konstanz)
Bodies Redesigned: How Technologies of Motor Rehabilitation Recast Forms of “I can”

1.45-2.30 Alejandra Martínez Quintero (University of the Basque Country)
Female bodies in embodied cognition: evolutionary and phenomenological approaches to menstruation and pregnancy

2.30-3.00 Coffee/Tea/Refreshments

3.00-3.45 Alan Jurgens (University of Wollongong)
Overcoming Biases: An Enactive and Narrative Approach to Social Disagreement

3.45-4.30 Closing Discussion

(Schedule may be adjusted)

Attendance is open to all and registration is free. To register, please email [email protected]. 

Registration ends 5th of March, 2019.

This conference has been organized by Alan Jurgens and Nick Brancazio, and is funded by a Postgraduate Conference Award from the Australasian Association of Philosophy and by the University of Wollongong’s Narrative Practice Research Network. 

Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/364169981030365/

Conference website:

http://www.uowblogs.com/uowphilosophy/easdd/