2012 Online Consciousness Conference

If it's February, it must be time for the annual Online Conference Conference. There is a ton of good stuff - as always - including an invited talk from Bernard Baars, originator of Global Workspace Theory.

The papers can be found here.

Consciousness Online Program - 2012

The fourth online consciousness conference is scheduled to take place February 17-March 2, 2012. This years’ contributed papers (not commentaries) can be found here: [link]. Feel free to read them before the conference begins but don’t forget to come back February 17th to join in the discussion!

Invited Talk
Bernard Baars, The Neuroscience Institute
Global Workspace Theory: Six Necessary Conditions for Consciousness

Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior

1. Floris P. de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior
   Shaping perception by attention and expectation
   
2. Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia University
   Decision mechanisms for attention
   
3. Marisa Carrasco, NYU
   Attention Alters Perception
   

Special Session on Action Consciousness organized by Myrto Mylopoulos, The Graduate Center CUNY

1. Élisabeth Pacherie, Institut Jean Nicod
   Time to Act: The Dynamics of Agency
   
   Commentator:
   Markus Schlosser, Leiden University
   John Michael, Aarhus University 
    
2. Chris Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
   Explaining Delusions of Control: The Comparator Model 20 Years On
   
   Commentator:
   Patrick Haggard, University College London

Special Session on the Developmental Conditions of Self Consciousness organized by James Dow, Hendrix College

1. Radu J. Bogdan, Tulane University
   Self-Consciousness: Executive Design, Sociocultural Grounds
   
   Commentators:
   Kyle Ferguson Gradiate Center, CUNY
   Robert Lurz, Brooklyn College, CUNY 
    
2. Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland Evolving Self-Consciousness
   
   Commentators:
   Joel Smith, University of Manchester
   JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton

Contributed Sessions

1. Katalin Balog, Rutgers University Newark Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Dilemma

   Commentator:
   Bénédicte Veillet, University of Michigan-Flint
   Elizabeth Schechter, Washington University St. Louis 

    

2. Wesley Buckwalter, The Graduate Center, CUNY & Mark Phelan, Lawrence University Does the S&M Robot Feel Guilty?

   Commentator:
   Justin Sytsma, East Tennessee State University 

    

3. Glenn Carruthers, Macquarie University and Elizabeth Schier, Macquarie University & Berlin School of Mind Brain Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness

   Commentator:
   Janet Levin, University of Southern California
   Ellen Fridland, Berlin School of Mind and Brain & Humboldt University of Berlin
   Jennifer Matey, Florida International University 

    

4. Pete Mandik, William Paterson University Conscious-State Anti-Realism

   Commentators:
   Alex Kiefer, The Gratuate Center, CUNY
   Daniel Kostic, Berlin School of Mind and Brain 

    

5. Barbara Montero, The Graduate Center, CUNY Must Physicalism Entail the Supervienence of the Mental on the Physical?

   Commentator:
   Robert Howell, Southern Methodist University
   Gene Witmer, University of Florida
   Frank Jackson, Australia National University & Princeton University 

    

6. Adrienne Prettyman, University of Toronto Empty Thoughts: An Explanatory Problem for Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness

   Commentator:
   Richard Brown, LaGuardia College, CUNY 

    

7. John Schwenkler, Mount St. Mary’s University Vision, Self-Location, and the Phenomenology of the ’Point of View’

   Commentator:
   Kranti Saran, Harvard & Jawaharlal Nehru University
   James Stazicker, NYU
   John Campbell, UC Berkeley 

    

8. Miguel Sebastian, University of Barcelona Experiential Awareness: Do You Prefer It to Me?
   

   Commentator:
   Rocco Gennaro, University of Southern Indiana
   Robert Lurz, Brooklyn College, CUNY
   Kenneth Williford, University of Texas, Arlington