The Metaphysics of Consciousness, the collected papers of an RIP conference held at Edinburgh, has just been published by the CUP.
Conference on Human Nature -- Constantine Sandis
Posted in Philosophy on 07/06/2010 - 14:02
Next week (June 15-17), Oxford Brookes University is hosting the 32nd Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Human Nature.
There will be talks on a diverse range of controversial themes by an international panel of philosophers with radically opposed views. I am particularly looking forward to the debates that will ensue in discussion. The first day introduces key issues in the philosophy of cognitive science, the second on philosophy of biology (including evolutionary psychology) and the third on themes in philosophical psychology (from consciousness to spirituality).
There are a few places left for people who wish to register for the whole conference (email dobrien@brookes.ac.uk). It is also possible to register for any particular day on the day itself. Here is the programme:
Richard Samuels (Ohio State University)
‘Varieties of Human Nature’
Chair: Martin Groves (Oxford Brookes University)
Mark Cain (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Nature and Radical Concept Nativism’
Chair: Rosemary Golding (Oxford Brookes University)
Wolfram Hinzen (University of Durham)
‘Human Nature and Language’
Chair: Arto Laitinen(Helsinki Collegium & Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes)
Stephen Boulter (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Can Evolutionary Biology do without Essentialism?’
Chair: Berta Perez(University of Valencia & Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes)
John Dupré (University of Exeter)
‘What Does the Human Genome Tell Us about Human Nature?’
Chair: John Preston (University of Reading)
Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zürich)
‘The Anthropological Difference’
Chair: Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University)
Tim J. Crow (Prince of Wales International Centre and University of Oxford)
‘Who Forgot Paul Broca? The Evolutionary Implications of Cerebral Asymmetry’
Chair: Beverley Clack (Oxford Brookes University)
Kim Sterelny (ANU and Victoria University at Wellington)
‘From Fitness to Utility’
Chair: Stephen Boulter (Oxford Brookes University)
P.M.S. Hacker (St. John’s College, Oxford)
‘Consciousness: a challenge to the “consciousness-studies community”’
Chair: Hans-Johann Glock(University of Zürich)
Peter Kail (St. Peter’s College, Oxford)
‘The Sceptical Beast of the Beastly Sceptic' Nature and Scepticism in Hume’
Chair: Dan O’ Brien (Oxford Brookes University)
John Cottingham (University of Reading and Heythrop College, London)
‘Human Nature and the Transcendent’
Chair: William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University)
Beverley Clack (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Being Human: Religion and Superstition in a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Religion’
Chair: Dominic Corrywright(Oxford Brookes University)
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