Speaker: Susanne Schmetkamp (Fribourg)
Date & Time: 18 March 2020, 17:15-19:00
Room: MIS04, 4122

Speaker: Daniel Gregory (Tübingen)
Date & Time: 04 March 2020, 17:15-19:00
Room: MIS04, 4122

The workshop will discuss 2 papers, in a mode of open discussion/work in progress:

Inclusive Consciousness: A Very Brief History

This paper contrasts two views of consciousness I call the narrow view and the inclusive view. Although this distinction bears on many contemporary issues, my main goal is historical. I want to argue …

Speaker: Patrik Engisch
Date & Time: 19 December 2019, 17:15-19:00 (Patrik was supposed to give us his talk on the 11th of December, but we changed the date to Dec 19th)
Room: MiS 10.2.04

the talk today is cancelled.

Speaker: Thomas Aeppli
Date & Time: 04 December 2019, 17:15-19:00 (Thomas was supposed to give us his talk on the 04th of December, but we changed the date to Dec 11th)
Room: MIS04, 4122

Bodily (dis)Pleasure, Emotion and Valence
Fabrice Teroni

Date & Time: 20 November 2019, 17:15-19:00
Room: MIS04, 4122

Experiences we go through. Sensing, Bodily Affordances and the Institution of the Self
Emmanuel Alloa

Date & Time: 30 October 2019, 17:15-19:00
Room: MIS04, 4122

Abstract:
This paper deals with Merleau‑Ponty’s philosophy of perception, and aims at indicating why a reconception of what it means to be sensing also has implications for …

The Ontology of the Self: Themes from Descartes
Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki) & Donnchadh O’Conaill (Fribourg)

Abstract:

What is the nature of the self or the subject of experiences? One traditional answer is that the self is nothing over and above its experiences, e.g., it is a bundle of experiences as described by …