C-MLAG VI – Encounters With Oneself (2012)

C-MLAG VI

Project: The Bounds of Judgement – Frege, cognitive agents and human thinkers (PTDC/FIL-FIL/109882/2009)

What shape can our access to the inner take? Can inner experience ever be an object of judgement? Or should we rather think of inner experience in terms of qualia? What, if anything, is wrong with the perceptual model of introspection? And if introspecting is not perceiving, can thinking about perception give us ideas to think about the conditions in which we access ourselves? How does the Frege-Wittgenstein case against idealism bear on conceptions of inner experience? Starting from such questions we also want to explore ways conceptions of the first person reflect on approaches to nature of action and morality.

Speakers

Quassim Cassam – University of Warwick
Naomi Eilan – University of Warwick
António Marques – New University of Lisbon
Jean-Philippe Narboux – University of Bordeaux
Lucy O’Brien – University College London
Sebastian Rödl – Universität Basel

Scientific Committee

Charles Travis – King’s College London
Sofia Miguens – University of Porto
João Alberto Pinto – University of Porto
Quassim Cassam – University of Warwick
José Luis Falguera – University of Santiago de Compostela

Organizing Committee

Charles Travis – King’s College London
Sofia Miguens – University of Porto
João Alberto Pinto – University of Porto
Mattia Riccardi – University of Porto
Susana Cadilha – University of Porto
João Santos – University of Porto

Programme

Day 1 – September 6

10:00 – Opening session  Fátima Marinho, Dean, FLUP; J. Meirinhos, Director, Instituto de Filosofia; Sofia Miguens, MLAG.

10:15 – Charles Travis (KCL). Welcoming remarks (Project The Bounds of Judgement PTDC/FIL-FIL/109882/2009).

10:30 – 1st Lecture – Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick). The Significance of Self-Knowledge.

11:50 – Coffee break

12:00 – 2nd Lecture – Naomi Eilan (University of Warwick).

13:30 – Lunch

15:00 – 3rd Lecture: António Marques (New University of Lisbon).

18:00 – Closing of day 1

20:00 – Dinner

DAY 2 – September 7

10:00 – 4th Lecture – Jean-Philippe Narboux (University of Bordeaux). Is Self-Consciousness Consciousness of a Self?

11:10 – Coffee break

11:30 – 5th Lecture – Lucy O’Brien (University College London). Self-knowledge and inner voices.

13:00 – Lunch

15:00 – 6th Lecture – Sebastien Rödl (Universität Basel). Universal Self-Consciousness.

16:00 – Round Table

17:00 – Closing