Third Annual Online Consciousness Conference, 2011

The program has been announced and the fun is set to begin. You can follow the event and get updates on Facebook. I wonder if they will have someone commenting on (i.e., rebutting, debunking, falsifying) Churchland's reductionist arguments.

Program - 2011

The Third Annual Online Consciousness Conference is scheduled for February 18th -March 4th 2011. Papers will be available for reading one week before the conference begins.

Invited talks

1. Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University

   Black and White and Color

   Commenter:
   • Pete Mandik, William Paterson University
2. Paul Churchland, University of California San Diego

   Consciousness: On the Introspection of Apparent Qualitative Simples

3. Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton & Universite du Quebec a Montreal

   Minds, Brains and Turing

4. Jesse Prinz, The Graduate Center, CUNY

   Attention and the (Dis)unity of Consciousness

Special Session on Direct Realism and Perceptual Justification organized by Jacob Berger, The Graduate Center, CUNY

1. Benj Hellie, University of Toronto

   There It Is

   Commenters:
   • Susanna Schellenberg, Rutgers University
   • Jeff Speaks, University of Notre Dame
   • Jacob Berger, The Graduate Center CUNY
   • Heather Logue, University of Leeds

Contributed Sessions

1. Nemira Gasiunas, Columbia University

   Grapheme-Color Synesthesia as Perception without Awareness

   Commenter:
   • Berit Brogaard, University of Missouri Saint Louis
2. Philip Goff, University of Hertfordshire

   Property Dualists Should be Panpsychists

   Commenters:
   • Jonathan Simon, New York University
   • William Robinson, Iowa State University
3. Jason Leddington, Bucknell University

   What We Hear

   Commenters:
   • Casey O’Callaghan, Rice University
   • Matthew Nudds, University of Edinburgh
4. Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp & University of Cambridge

   Perceptual Phenomenology

   Commenters:
   • Farid Masrour, Harvard University
   • Kevin Connolly, University of Toronto
5. Adam Pautz, University of Texas, Austin

   How do Sensible Properties Become Present to the Mind? Some Lessons from Neuroscience

   Commenters:
   • David Hilbert, University of Illinois Chicago
   • Carolyn Suchy-Dicey, Boston University
   • Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut
6. Miguel Sebastian, LOGOS University of Barcelona

   Not a Hot Dream

   Commenters:
   • Josh Weisberg, University of Houston
   • Matthew Ivanowich, University of Western Ontario
7. Tom Seppalainen, Portland State University

   Hypothetical Identities and Chimerical Reductions

   Commenters:
   • Elizabeth Schier, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University & Berlin School of Mind and Brain
   • David Harker, East Tennessee State University

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