NATURALISM AND THE MIND

KAZIMIERZ NATURALISM WORKSHOP 2009

September 4^th - 8^th 2009

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

Invited key speakers

Carl Craver (St. Louis, USA)

Álvaro Moreno (UPV/EHU, Spain)

Joelle Proust (Institute Jean Nicod, France)

Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How  should study we the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? The workshop aims to further the development of a naturalistic view of the mind through focussed, friendly discussion undertaken in the relaxed atmosphere of a picturesque historical town.

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September 4th

2:00 Leaving Warsaw airport

about 5:00 Arriving in Kazimierz

5:30-6:30 Dinner

September 5th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-9:50 Ricardo Sanz - The nature of knowledge from an autonomous systems perspective

9:50-10:30 Majid Davoody - NAI: Can AI get naturalized?

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:00 Piotr Bo³tuæ - The engineering thesis in machine consciousness

Pawe³ Grabarczyk - Do animals see any objects?

Samuli Pöyhönen - Carving the psyche by its joints: natural kinds and the social construction in psychiatry

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:20

Tadeusz Ciecierski - Qualia as properties

Jonathan Knowles - Naturalism and the mind-world relation

3:20-3:50 Coffee

3:50-5:10 Alvaro Moreno - A biological perspective of the nature of cognition. Some remarks for a naturalistic program

5:10-6:10 Dinner (in town)

September 6th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-10:30

Rodrigo González  - Conceivable experiences, naturalism and the explanatory gap

Dimitris Platchias - A HOT solution to the problem of the explanatory gap

Joanna Klimczyk - What is wrong with the buck-passing account of value? On some problems with the naturalistic approach to value

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:40

Argyris Arnellos - Naturalising Autonomy - On the neurobiological grounding of emotions

Colin Cheyne - Emotion, Fiction and Naturalism

John Collier - Rationality and Motivation

Juraj Hvorecky - Normativity, emotion and evolution

1:40-2:40 Lunch

2:40-4:00

Marcin Mi³kowski - Sciences of re-engineering

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski - Evolution, generative entrenchment and the bounds of rationality

4:00-4:20 Coffee Break

4:20-5:40 Tim Crane - Mental substances and their powers

5:40-6:0 Dinner (in town)

September 7th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-9:50 Carl Craver - Memory and Moral Agency: A Case Study in Clinical Moral Psychology

9:50-10:30 Thomas Polger - Realisation & mechanism

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:00

Benoît Dubreuil - The evolution of the mind: from mental phenomena to (increasingly) plausible mechanisms

Krystyna Bielecka & Zuzanna Kasprzyk - How truth can be a relational property: Deflationary concept of truth as a relation

Sinem Elkatip - Undermining the distinction between experiences and subjects of experiences

1:40-2:40 Lunch

2:40-4:40 Guided tour of Kazimierz

6:00- Conference Dinner (in town)

September 8th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-10:30 Closing presentation & discussion

11:00-12:00 Lunch

12:00 Leaving for Warsaw

3:00 Arriving Warsaw airport