Program -2012

The fourth online consciousness conference is scheduled to take place February 17-March 2, 2012. This years’ contributed papers (not commentaries) can be found here: [link]. Feel free to read them before the conference begins but don’t forget to come back February 17th to join in the discussion!

Invited Talk

Bernard Baars, The Neuroscience Institute

Global Workspace Theory: Six Necessary Conditions for Consciousness

Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior

1. Floris P. de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior

   Shaping perception by attention and expectation

2. Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia University

   Decision mechanisms for attention

3. Marisa Carrasco, NYU

   Attention Alters Perception

Special Session on Action Consciousness organized by Myrto Mylopoulos, The Graduate Center CUNY

1. Élisabeth Pacherie, Institut Jean Nicod

   Time to Act: The Dynamics of Agency

   Commentator:
   Markus Schlosser, Leiden University
   John Michael, Aarhus University

2. Christopher Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

   Explaining Delusions of Control: The Comparator Model 20 Years On

   Commentator:
   Patrick Haggard, University College London

Special Session on the Developmental Conditions of Self Consciousness organized by James Dow, Hendrix College

1. Radu J. Bogdan, Tulane University

   Self-Consciousness: Executive Design, Sociocultural Grounds

2. Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland

   Evolving Self-Consciousness

Contributed Sessions

1. Katalin Balog, Rutgers University Newark

   Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Dilemma

   Commentator:
   Bénédicte Veillet, University of Michigan-Flint
   Elizabeth Schechter, Washington University St. Louis

2. Wesley Buckwalter, The Graduate Center, CUNY & Mark Phelan, Lawrence University

   Does the S&M Robot Feel Guilty?

   Commentator:
   Justin Sytsma, East Tennessee State University

3. Glenn Carruthers, Macquarie University and Elizabeth Schier, Macquarie University & Berlin School of Mind Brain

   Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness

   Commentator:
   Janet Levin, University of Southern California
   Ellen Fridland, Berlin School of Mind and Brain & Humboldt University of Berlin
   Jennifer Matey, Florida International University

4. Pete Mandik, William Paterson University

   Conscious-State Anti-Realism

   Commentators:
   Alex Kiefer, The Gratuate Center, CUNY
   Daniel Kostic, Berlin School of Mind and Brain

5. Barbara Montero, The Graduate Center, CUNY

   Must Physicalism Entail the Supervienence of the Mental on the Physical?

   Commentator:
   Robert Howell, Southern Methodist University
   Gene Witmer, University of Florida
   Frank Jackson, Australia National University & Princeton University

6. Adrienne Prettyman, University of Toronto

   Empty Thoughts: An Explanatory Problem for Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness

   Commentator:
   Richard Brown, LaGuardia College, CUNY

7. John Schwenkler, Mount St. Mary’s University

   Vision, Self-Location, and the Phenomenology of the ’Point of View’

   Commentator:
   Kranti Saran, Harvard & Jawaharlal Nehru University
   James Stazicker, NYU
   John Campbell, UC Berkeley

8. Miguel Sebastian, University of Barcelona

   Experiential Awareness: Do You Prefer It to Me?

   Commentator:
   Rocco Gennaro, University of Southern Indiana
   Robert Lurz, Brooklyn College, CUNY
   Kenneth Williford, University of Texas, Arlington