We mentioned this conference a few months ago. The website is here.
Bodies of Thought: Fleshy Subjects, Embodied Minds, & Human Natures
9th-10th June 2011, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Dr Christine Battersby (Reader Emerita in Philosophy, University of Warwick)
- Professor Susan Oyama (Professor Emerita in Psychology, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center, New York)
- Professor Michael Wheeler (Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling).
The aim of this event is to foster a dialogue between researchers in feminist philosophy working on debates around the body, and researchers in philosophy of cognitive science with interests in embodied cognition and the extended mind. Many theorists of embodiment now think of mind and cognition as being continuous with life, in some theoretically significant way. Thus, contributions from those working in relevant areas of philosophy of biology will also form a natural part of this dialogue.
Schedule below the break.
Thursday 9 June:
1:00-2:00 pm: Registration RSE (22-26 George Street)
2:00-2:15 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks: Rachel Jones (University of Dundee) and Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling)
2:15-3:30 pm: Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), “A-Life, AI and B-Life: The Cognitive Sciences, Bare Life and Birthed Life”
3:30-3:45 pm: Coffee
3:45-4:50 pm: Veronica Vasterling (Radbound University), “Nature-Nurture Revisited: The Dualist Underpinnings of Evolutionary Psychology and Social Constructionism” / Mirko Farina (MACCS, Sydney / University of Edinburgh), “Finding My Mind: A Case for Extended Cognition”
4:50-5:00 pm: Short Break
5:00-6:00 pm: Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling), “Ways of Mattering: Embodied Thought and Thinking Bodies”
Friday 10 June
9:00-9:15 am: Registration (22-26 George Street)
9:15-10:15 am: John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Populations of Subjects”
10:15-10:25 am: Short Break
10:25-11:25 am: Chryssa Sdrolia (Goldsmiths, University of London), “For a Panexperientialist Metaphysics of Thought” / Lauren Freeman (Concordia University, Montreal), “Feminist Bioethics and a Phenomenological Account of Selfhood: Ontological Solutions to Puzzles in Reproductive Technologies”
11:25-11:45 am: Coffee
11:45 am - 1:00 pm: Susan Oyama (John Jay College & CUNY), “Incidence, Essence, and Developmental Systems”
1:00-2:00 pm: Lunch (Sandwich Buffet at RSE)
2:00-3:00 pm: Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh), “Methodologies That Matter” / Saray Ayala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Manipulating Bodies & Incorporating Technology: Re-inventing Sex”
3:00-3:15 pm: Coffee
3:15-4:15 pm: Jess Cadwallader (University of Groningen), “Sedimentation, Wounded Attachments and Forgetting: Phenomenology and Psychopharmacology” / Eva De Clercq (University of Pisa), “Toward an Ontology of Corporeal Uniqueness”
4:15-5:00 pm: Roundtable discussion
This conference is part of an RSE funded Research Network in the Arts and Humanities, based at the University of Dundee. For further information about the Network, Engendering Dialogue: feminist thought and contemporary debates in art, science, and education, please contact Dr Rachel Jones, Philosophy, School of Humanities, Dundee DD1 4HN; or email at: [email protected]
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