Consciousness and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Convenor: Diana Stanciu (ICUB, University of Bucharest)

The seminar Consciousness and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach is designed as an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions between specialists in neuroscience, medicine, biology, physics, anthropology, linguistics, metaphysics, applied philosophy and the history of philosophy on largely debated themes such as consciousness and physicalism (Alter, Walter 2007, Alter, Nagasawa 2015), emergence, embodied cognition and quantum consciousness (Clayton 2004), consciousness and the self (Liu, Perry 2012), the neurophysiology of consciousness (Laureys, Gosseries, Tononi 2015), the cognitive limits of consciousness – the ‘explanatory gap’ (Levine 1983) and the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ (Chalmers 2010), epistemic subjectivity and the limits it imposes on ‘knowability’ and ‘understandability’ of various facts about consciousness (Nagel 1974, Van Gulick 1985, Lycan 1996), consciousness, attention, and conscious attention (Montemayor, Haladjian 2015), mind, self and person (O’Hear 2015), consciousness as a self-creating and self-organising system (Varela, Maturana 1980), the unity and organisation of consciousness – the causal unity of consciousness (the integration of affection and control into a unified focus of agency) and the representational and intentional forms of unity (Cleeremans 2003), higher-order theories of consciousness – the analysis of conscious meta-mental states in terms of reflexive (meta-mental) self-awareness (Armstrong 1981, Rosenthal 1986, 1993, Lycan 1987, 1996, Van Gulick 2004, 2006, Kriegel 2009, Gennaro 2004, 2012), the phenomenal consciousness (Miller 2015) and the representational consciousness (Speaks 2015,Pennartz 2015).

Contact: Diana Stanciu – diana.stanciu(at)gmail.com

Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 17h – Mihaela Constantinescu (University of Bucharest), Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 17h – Liviu Badea (National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest), Deep Learning Networks and Neuroscience

Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 17h – Maria-Luiza Flonta (University of Bucharest), Towards a Neuroscientific Understanding of Free Will

Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 17h – Manuel Rebuschi (Archives Henri Poincaré, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France), Schizophrenia and Context-shifting

Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 17h – Irina Bogdan, Calin Stanciu (University of Bucharest), Becoming Conscious of New Gender Issues in the Middle East

Thursday, 26 April 2018, 17h –  Diana Stanciu (University of Bucharest), Conscious Agency and Free Will

Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 17h – Alina Chivu (University of Bucharest), Cognitive Bias in Mental Disorders, (organised together with Ioana Podina)

Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 17h – Simona Pascal (University of Bucharest), The Presence of Disgust in the Psychopathology of Anxiety (organised together with Ioana Podina)

Thursday, 31 May 2018, 17h – Sigrid Leyssen (Centre Alexandre Koyré – Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques CNRS – EHESS/ University of Bucharest), Images of Agency in the Psychological Laboratory

Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 17h –  Stefan Turcu (University of Bucharest), Consciousness and the Art of Writing

Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 17h – Diana Dudau (The West University of Timișoara), Digital Traces of Mental Health: Insights of Social Media Content  (organised together with Raluca Tomsa)

Thursday, 12 July 2018, 17h – Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter/ University of Bucharest), Magnitude, Motion and-Self-Perception in Aristotle