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Monday, July 7th

09.00 - 10.00

Pribram

Consciousness Reassessed

10.00 - 11.00

Thompson

Neurophenomenology: Integrating Subjective Experience and Brain Dynamics in the Science of Consciousness

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 - 12.20

Honderich

Consciousness as Existence, Devout Physicalism, Spiritualism

12.20 - 14.00 Lunch    
  Quantum Approaches Time Consciousness Analytic philosophy of consciousness 1
14.00 - 14.25

Ross

A Photonic Theory of Consciousness

Franck

Consciousness and Nowness

Balog

The “quotational account” of phenomenal concepts

14.25 - 14.50

Bernoider

Quantum Neurodynamics and the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

Robbins

Bergson, Perception and Time

Galikova

Are conscious experiences like sunsets?

14.50 - 15.15

Plotnitsky

The Epistemology of Consciousness and the Unconscious: From Kant to Freud and Lacan to Quantum Field Theory

Sanfey

The Now Paradox: The Correct, Solvable Form of the Hard Problem

Miscevic

Two-dimensionalism, Apriority and Conceptual Change

15.15 - 15.40

Pylkkänen

The implicate order of conscious experience – a challenge for phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience?

Tsakiris, Haggard

Time-Consciousness of Action : Between Neuroscience and Phenomenology

Pinguelli Rosa, Faber, Petric

The Problems of Consciousness: a Critical Summary 

15.40 - 16.05

Strickholm

Consciousness could be contained in and result from the quantum entangled photon field of complex neuronal activity having low entropy content.

Selberg

Dainton vs. Bohm on the unity of consciousness

Capek

On Intention: When is That to Be Found?

16.05 - 16.25 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
  Language & Consciousness Emergence and Reduction Analytic philosophy of consciousness 2
16.25 - 16.50

Allwood

Language and consciousness

El-Hani, de Almeide

Emergence Theories As Applied To Consciousness Studies: Some Critical Issues

O'Connor

Is the Conscious Will an Illusion?

16.50 - 17.15

Koegler

Consciousness and the Implicit Normativity of Meaning

Markic

Consciousness as an emergent phenomenon

Loewer

Consciousness and Quantum Theory

17.15 - 17.40

Morikawa, Ichikawa

Non-Verbal Communication and the Levels of Consciousness

Van Gulick

Phenomenal Intentionality and Inter-level Content Relations

Esteves

The Private Language Argument Revised

17.40 - 18.05

Randrup

Collective Consciousness Developed by Verbal Communication (Collective Thinking)

Thomas

Consciousness, Reflexivity and Reduction

Vaas

On The Concept And Nature Of Self-Consciousness

18.05 - 18.30

Ahlsén

Language disorders, communication and consciousness – The case of linguistic feedback

Wong

Soulful Meditations

Newton

Space, Time And The Hard Problem Of Consciousness

18.30 - 18.55

Willert

The Psychological Practitioner as Applied Philosophjer or Some Minor Amendments to Ursula le Guin's Thery of Wizardry: A Case Study in Professional Action

Krieglstein

From Aristotle's Universals to Umezawa's Collective Mode. Is Vitiello's Vacuum really a Proper Locus?

Viader Rapp

Is representationalism really in deep trouble?

Tuesday, July 8th

09.00 - 10.00

Heelan

Phenomenology of Measurement as Key to Brain/Consciousness Connection

10.00 - 11.00

Zajonc

Concerning the Problem of the Observer: Learning the Lessons of Physics

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 - 12.20

Petitot

Neurogeometry and the Phenomenology of Space

12.20 - 14.00 Lunch
  Social 14.30 - ???    

Wednesday, July 9th

09.00 - 10.00

Rey

Intentionality Without Consciousness

10.00 - 11.00

Depraz

Empathy and Openness: Practices of Intersubjectivity at the Core of the Science of Consciousness

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 - 12.20

Zahavi

Why cognitive science needs phenomenology or conceptual issues in the study of infantile autism

12.20 - 14.00 Lunch
  Frontiers of Psychology Identity Aesthetics & Neuroaesthetics
14.00 - 14.25

Morris

Cross-cultural Approaches to the Study of Exceptional Human Abilities

Botha

Understanding the self through the other: An intersection of the Western and African World views?

Gyoba, Suzuki, Sakuta

Classification of paintings based on activation levels of visual awareness and qualia

14.25 - 14.50

Funkhouser

"Knots of Subjective Time: The Déja Vu Phenomenon"

Orbán

The Memory Criterion for Personal Identity

Piper

Towards a critical definition of neuro-esthetics

14.50 - 15.15

Lehmann

Towards the Psycho-Physiological Building Blocks of Conscious Mentation: Brain Electric Microstates

DeLashmutt

Narrative Identity: The development of self-consciousness as self-constancy-in-time from Augustine to Ricoeur

Przybysz

How do we see beautiful things? Idealizational procedures in neuroaesthetics and their correlates in the brain

15.15 - 15.40

Kompass

High-precision Prototypical Intervals in Mental Timing:
Experimental Evidence and a Neural Principle

Klikova

The concept of personal identity: common issues and differences between phenomenological and neuroscientific approach

Seeley

Naturalizing Aesthetic Experience: the neurophysiology of aesthetic experience

15.40 - 16.05

Wackermann

Psychophysics of Time Experience: Experimental and Modelling Approaches

Seager

Return of the Zombie

Pepperell

Towards a "Conscious Art"

16.05 - 16.25 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
  Philosophy and Medicine Psychology 1 Between phenomenological and analytic traditions
16.25 - 16.50

Malmgren

The concept of consciousness in the phenomenological psychiatry of Henri Ey

Holsanova

Picture Viewing and Picture Description: Two windows on the Mind

Mascarenhas

Phenomenology and Physicalism: Overcoming the Clash of Perspectives in the Science of Consciousness

16.50 - 17.15

Kouba

On Health and Disease

Kozmova, Wolman

Last Night I Had a Strangest Dream: Rational Thought in Dreaming

Moural

Horizon and the Background: the out-of-focus components of consciousness in Husserl and Searle

17.15 - 17.40

Salmela

What Is Emotional Authenticity?

Nielsen, Kaszniak

Visceral awareness of emotional "gut feelings": a comparison of long-term meditators and non-meditators using a visual masking paradigm

Blackmore

Now and Zen: A Way out of Cartesian Materialism

17.40 - 18.05

Otero

The contribution of neurosciences to philosophy of mind : the case of blindsight

Radil, Wysocki

Unconscious/ Conscious Smell and Physiological Modulation of Odor Detection Threshold

Billon

Intentionnality and the individuation of experience

18.05 - 18.30

Laukes

Empathy Check

Schabus, Klimesch, Sauter, Schack, Zeithlhofer, Saletu

Learning during sleep and dreaming: “Myth or reality” ?

Heelan

Phenomenological Paradoxes of Measurement

18.30 - 18.55

Lagerspetz

The Ecology Of Colour: Wittgenstein And The Philosophy Of Colour Perception

Patterson

Perceptual Symbol Systems and Conscious Conceptual Composition

Pihlainen

Personal identity and reciprocity: towards an embodied ethics?

Thursday, July 10th

09.00 - 10.00

Chrisley

The seems/is distinction: An(other) argument against the possibility of a science of consciousness

10.00 - 11.00

Höschl, Horacek

Neurobiological Correlates of Normal and Altered Consciousness

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break
  Holism Modelling of conscious processes Mathematics & physics of consciousness
11.20 - 11.45

Winkler

Spacetime Holism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Saniga, Buccheri

Psychopathology Of Time Geometrized And Objectified

Costello

On the Applicability of Connectionist Theory to an Embodied Phenomenology

11.45 - 12.10

Zlatev, Zimke

Cells, Consciousness and Culture: The Case for Ontological Pluralism

Schneider, Kuhl, Walach

A Conditional Testing Approach To Unorthodox Forms Of Interaction

Khrennikov

Probabilistic pathway representation of cognitive information on the p-adic mental space

12.10 - 12.35

Cumming

Bridging the gap between "secular" and "religious": The development and criticism of entheogens and their role in creating universal religious experiences

Atmanspacher, Filk, Romer

Quantum Zeno Features of Bistable Perception

 

 

12.35 - 14.00 Lunch
  Neurophenomenology Psychology 2 Issues in Neuroscience
14.00 - 14.25

Petitmengin, Le Van Quyen

An example of neurophenomenological research : the anticipation of epileptic seizures

Bob

Co-consciousness, subliminal memory and pain

Cavanna, Monaco

Brain mechanisms underlying the Placebo Effect: new insights from the Motor Disorders

14.25 - 14.50

Legrand

The intentional body

De Young, Peterson

Consciousness and Personality

Cook

The Origins of Subjectivity at the Neuron Level

14.50 - 15.15

Blaszak

Subjectivity without Consciousness - Representational Analysis of the Self

Okuma, Mizuki, Mizuki, Todo

Potential-up Methodology

Drubach, Dodd

A Proposed Role for the Thalamus in Volitional Movement

15.15 - 15.40

Brennecke

Extending Varela’s Neurophenomenology of Time Consciousness
by three Husserlian Concepts

Pasztor

A Qualitative Approach to Emotions

Licata, De Leonni

The Behavioral Domain of Anosognosia in Alzheimer’s disease: The Possible Impact on Depression

15.40 - 16.05

 

 

Brouwer

The “pathetic fallacy” reconsidered: why empathy is crucial in theorizing animal/human relationships