Provisional programme

Friday 20 March 2009

9.00-9.45: registration

 

9.45-10.00

Nicholas Rawlins (University of Oxford)

Opening welcome

 

10.00-11.20

Cecilia Heyes (University of Oxford)

The meaning of mirror neurons

 

11.20-11.50: coffee

 

11.50-1.10

Nicholas Shea (University of Oxford)

The 'shared circuits' hypothesis

 

1.10-2.10: lunch

 

2.10-3.30

John Campbell (University of California at Berkeley)

Causation in the mind

 

3.30-4.00: coffee

 

4.00-5.20

José Luis Bermudéz (Washington University in St Louis)

Decision theory: psychology and norms

 

6.00-7.00

Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University)

What does my body need ME for? The role of human intelligence

**Registration for this public lecture is now closed**

 

 

Saturday 21 March 2009

The morning session is supported by the  

European Science Foundation's Eurocores programme, Consciousness in its Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC) 

 

9.00-9.10

Eva Hoogland (European Science Foundation)

Susan Hurley’s contribution to the CNCC project

 

9.10-10.30

Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)

Conscious Experience and Dynamic Entanglement

 

10.30-11.50

Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Out of the Body and into the Mind: From Embodiment to Minimal Selfhood

 

11.50-12.20: coffee

 

12.20-1.40

Alvin Goldman (Rutgers)

Is Social Cognition Embodied?

 

1.40-2.40: lunch 

 

2.40-4.10

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London) 

The social brain

 

4.10-4.40: coffee 

 

4.40-6.00

Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina/CUNY)

Emotions, Horizontal Modularity, and the Moral Self

 

7.00-10.00: conference dinner (requires separate registration)

 

 

Sunday 22 March 2009

 

10.00-11.20

Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling)

Recarving the Cognitive Joints of Nature 

 

11.20-11.40: coffee 

 

 

11.40-1.00

Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut)

 Language without a theory of mind

 

1.00: end of conference