THE HUMAN BEING: BODY, MIND, SELF
(ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF MIND / COGNITIVE SCIENCE / PSYCHOLOGY)

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Disciplines:

• Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (inc. Continental Phenomenology of Mind)
• Anthropology
• Psychology:
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Structuralist Psychoanalysis

Sub-Topics:

• Gender (Feminist Theory)
• Race

• Sexuality

• Literature, the Mind and the Self (inc. Autobiography, Cognitive Criticism, Psychological Criticism)

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on the Human Being:
  • Feminist Perspectives on Race and Post-Coloniality

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on the Human Being:
  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Sexuality (Queer Theory)

ASSOCIATIONS

• Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures (GRIC)

• International Human Science Research Association

• International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS)

• International Society for Self and Identity (Interdisciplinary Association of Social and Behavioural Scientists)

• International Society for the Study of Individual Differences

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Thick Concepts, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, July3-5

• XIXth Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy of the University of Zaragoza, May 18-19

• Minds, Brains and Beyond: in Memory of Susan Hurley (1954-2007), University of Bristol, March 19-21
• Self-Evaluation – Individual and Collective, University of Basel, January 16-18
   

2008:

• Moral Psychology and Free Will, Fifth Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality, Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain, December 18-20
• Persons by Convention, University of Sydney, December 16-18
• The Post/Human Condition, Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP), University of Auckland, December 3–5
• Love in Our World, Research Network on Love, Centre of International Politics, University of Manchester, November 27-28
• Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self, University of Heidelberg, November 13-15
• Science and Human Perspectives: Western and Russian Perspectives, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, November 16-18
• Identities under Construction, University of Liège, October 16–18
• The Early Twentieth-Century Crisis in Psychology: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, October 10-12
• 11th International Conference on Philosophy and Mental Health, International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Dallas, October 6-8
• Human Beings: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives, Gorizia, Italy, October 2–5
• Selfhood and Self-Annihilation, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, September 26
• Madness: Probing the Boundaries, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, September 8-10
• Fifth Conference on the Dialogical Self, Cambridge University, August 26-29

• Images and Intentionality, Centre for Time, University of Sydney, August 8

• Norms and Persons: Freedom, Commitment and the Self, University of Konstanz, July 29-31
• Normativity and the Causal Theory of Action, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, July 18
• Death: What It Is and Why It Matters, Open University and University of York, July 17-18
• The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience, Philosophy Program, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, July 17-18
• What is Second Nature?  Reason, History, Institutions, 14th Evian Colloquium, July 13-19
• Social Cognition and Social Narrative, Collegium / Summer School, University of San Marino, July 7-13
• Computation and Cognitive Science, King's College, University of Cambridge, July 7-8
• Tool Use and Causal Cognition, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, July 4-6
• Intentionality and Consciousness, Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, July 3-5
• Visions of the Human in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, July 1-3
• Consciousness, Agency, and the Will Conference, University of Edinburgh, June 28-29
• Subjectivity: International Conference on Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, June 27-29

• 34th Annual Meeting, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, June 26 –29

• 16th Annual Meeting, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Utrecht, June 26-28

• 12th Annual Meeting, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, National Taiwan University, June 19-22

• Animal Cognition: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, June 18–19
• Explanation, Reduction, and Models of Psychopathology, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, June 17
• Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, June 12-15
• Imagination in the Human Sciences, Human Science Research Conference 2008, Ramapo College of New Jersey, June 11-14
• Limits of Personhood, University of Jyvaskyla, June 6-8
• Perspectives on Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity, University College Dublin, June 6-7
• Human Nature and Language, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, June 5

• Expressions of Analogy, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, May 29-31

• The Metaphysics, Epistemology, Psychology and Neuroscience of Attention, University College Dublin, May 29-30
• Embodiment and Identity, Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Department of Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Hull, May 22-23
• Self-Knowledge and the Self, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, May 22-23
• The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality, International Workshop in the Philosophy of Mind and the Foundation of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Social, Quantitative and Cognitive Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, April 28-29
• Emotions and Intentionality, Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, April 17-18
• Varieties of Perception, Saint Louis University, April 4-5
• Consciousness and Time, Subjective Time Collaborative Research Project , University of Edinburgh, April 2-3
• Workshop on Personal Identity, Multiple Personality and Responsibility, Department of Philosophy, University of Dortmund, February 15-16
• Philosophy of Psychiatry, Women in Philosophy Workshop, Lancaster University, January 10

2007:

• Unity of the Self, Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, November 29-30

• Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures, University of London, November 29-30

• Self and Other in Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, November 23

• Phenomenal Consciousness and Self-Awareness, 7th Annual Conference on the Philosophy of Consciousness, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, November 22

• Metaphysics and Mind, Queen's University Belfast, November 9-10

• Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended, University of Central Florida, October 21-23

• Recognition and Work, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Maquarie University, October 15-17

• Perception and Content: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, Stockholm University, September 21-22

• Between the Human and the Post-Human: Technology and Humanity, Science Technology Culture Research Group, University of Nottingham, September 19

• First Person Authority: its Nature, Source, Limits and Use, Universität Duisburg-Essen, September 10-13

• Human Mind, Human Kind, Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, August 15-18

• Ninth International Conference on Persons, University of North Carolina, Asheville, July 31-August 4

• Narrative  Alternatives to Theories of Mind, Centre for Normativity and Narrative, University of Hertfordshire, July 12-15

• 23rd Annual Conference, International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), University of Queensland, July 11-15

• 15th Annual Meeting, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, July 9-12

• Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics and Dual Vision, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, July 1-3

• Theoretical Psychology Beyond Borders: Transdisciplinarity and Internationalisation, International Society of Theoretical Psychology, York University in Toronto, June 18-22

• Emotions, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 18-20

• Connected Minds: Cognition and Interaction in the Social World, Université de Quebec à Montréal, June 15-17

• 33rd Annual Meeting, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, York University, Toronto, June 14-17

• Brains and Persons (With a Main Focus on Austrian Philosophy), 8th Congress, Austrian Society of Philosophy, June 7-9

• Human Being in Contemporary Philosophical Conceptions, 4th International Conference, Volgograd State University, May 28-31

• 17th Interuniversity Workshop in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Human Cognition and Evolution Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 24-26

• Understanding Minds, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, May 18

• Concepts: Content and Constitution, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, May 11-12

• Selfhood, Normativity and Control, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 10-11

• Moral Emotions about Risky Technologies, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, May 3-4

• Emotions, Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Antwerpen, April 26-27

• Understanding Other Minds and Moral Agency, College of the Holy Cross, April 19-21

Identity Formation, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, April 4

• Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks, First International Body and Textuality Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, March 26-30

• Emotion, Rationality and Value: Themes from the work of Ronald de Sousa, University of Manchester, March 15-16

• Emotions, Ethics, and Adaptation, University of Manchester, March 14

• Consciousness Without Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hallucination, Imagination, and Dream, Fifth Düsseldorf Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, February 12-16

2006:

• 2nd Symposium on Cognition, Logic and Communication, Centre for Cognition and Semantics, University of Latvia, December 8-9

• Conciliation and Reconciliation, 2nd International Conference, Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures (GRIC), University of Le Havre, France, December 7-9

• Identities in the Make: Migration and Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century, Asociación Española de Estudios Canadienses, Madrid, Spain, November 17-18

• Embodied and Situated Cognition: from Phenomenology to Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, November 16-18

• Thinking Through the Body: Somaesthetics, Body Experience, Art and Philosophy, Jan van Eyck Academie, November 4

• Negotiating the Sacred III: Religion, Medicine, and the Body, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, November 2-3

• Origin of Consciousness: Perspectives from Neuroscience, San Marino Debates in Contemporary Thought, Centro Internazionale di Studi Semiotici e Cognitivi, Universita degli Studi, October 27-29

• The Reduction of Thought in Modernity, Rethinking Marxism (Journal), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26-28

• Mental Causation and Self-Knowledge, Research Project in Self-Consciousness, University of Tuebingen, October 13-15

• Nature and Human Nature: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of the Environment, Pondicherry University, September 21-23

• The Crooked Oar: the Illusions of Outer and Inner Perception: Philosophy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano, September 18-19

• Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self, 10th Annual Conference, Consciousness and Experiential Section, British Psychological Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford, September 15-17

• History and Cultural Identity, Fall 2006 Seminar, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy and Center for the Study of Culture and Values, Catholic University of America, September 14-November 9

• Antecedents of Actions: Reasons, Decisions, Intentions, and Will, Universitat Potsdam, September 14-17

• 14th Annual Meeting, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, School of Psycholgy, Queen's University Belfast, August 24-27

• Beyond the Brain Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition, Cognitio 2006, Université de Québec à Montréal, August 19-21

• Situated Cognition: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Science, International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Durham University, August 18-20

• Annual Conference, International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Atlanta, August 6-10

• Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Calcutta, July 27-30

• The Varieties of Intentionality, Inaugural Conference, Budapest Mind Society, Collegium Budapest, July 25-26

• Time and Consciousness, Centre for Time, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney and Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University, July 22-23

• The Extended Mind 2, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, July 10-12

• In Two Minds: Dual-Process Theories of Reasoning and Rationality, Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group, Department of Philosophy, Open University, July 5-7

• Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine, Second International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guangzhou (Canton, China, July 3-5

• Empathy, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, June 22-23

• Cognitive Basis of Scientific Images: an Interdisciplinary Approach, Roscoff Biological Station, Brittany, France, June 18-23

• Mind and Metaphysics, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Washington University in St Louis, June 5-14

• 32nd Annual Meeting, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Washington University in St. Louis, June 1-4

• Fourth Conference on the Dialogical Self, Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, June 1-3

• Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, Royal Institute of Philosophy at Birmingham University and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Birmingham University, May 13

• One-day Workshop on Practical Reasons, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, May 6

• Self to Self: Themes from the Philosophy of J. David Velleman, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australia, April 18-20

• Integrative Approaches to Machine Consciousness, AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, University of Bristol, April 5-6

• Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, April 4-8

• Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, March 30-April 1

• XVI Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Phronesis and Spanish Society of Analytical Philosophy, University of Valencia, March 27-29

• The Human and its Others, Annual Conference, American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 23-26

• Forensic Futures: Interrogating the Posthuman Subject, Birkbeck College, University of London, March 16-18

• What Am I?  Historical Reflections on Human Nature, Morris Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 3-4

• The Cognitive Basis of the Theory of Mind, 4th Düsseldorf Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, February 17

• Broken Minds/Broken Bodies: What Cognitive Science can Learn from Neuro-Psycho-Pathologies, Cognitive Sciences Program, Philosophy Department, the Institute for Simulation and Training, and the Clinical Neuroscience Lab, University of Central Florida, February 9-11

2005:

• Emotions over Time: Ancient Pathê and Modern Sentiments: a Comparative Approach, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, December 9-10

• The MIND Project: Intersections of Philosophy, Human Science, and Humanities in the Journal Mind, 1876-1920, Department of Science and Technology in Society and Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech University, December 2-4

• Revelation and Humility: Our Knowledge of Mental and Physical Properties, Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University, November 18

• Person and Society: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century, Faculty of Philosophy (Braga), Catholic University of Portugal, November 17-19

• Bodies Past, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 11-12

• The Future of Memory: an International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Social, Cultural and Policy Research, University of Salford, and Department of French Studies, University of Manchester November 10-12

• Mental Processes: Representing and Inferring, Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia, Universita di Genoa, October 19-21

• Examining Folk Psychology: How Minds Understand Other Minds, Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, September 24

• Reconstructing Consciousness, Mind and Being, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section, British Psychological Society, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, September 16-18.

• Esprit - Science - Métaphysique, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Ramatuelle (Cote d'Azure), September 10-16

• Phenomenology and Psychiatry for the 21st Century, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London, September 5-6

• Pensamiento, lenguaje y acción, Departamento de filosofia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, September 1-3

• Towards a Science of Consciousness: Methodological and Conceptual Issues, University of Copenhagen, August 17-20

• Thirteenth Annual Meeting, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Lund, August 11-15

• Eighth International Conference on Persons, University of Cardinal Stefan Wysznski, Warsaw, August 9-12

• Embodiment and Environment, Westminister Institute, Oxford Brookes University, July 5-8

• Post-Cognitivist Psychology 2005, Department of Psychology, the Centre for Applied Social Psychology (CASP) and the British Psychological Society (Scottish Branch), University of Strathclyde, July 4-6

• Beyond the Pale, International Critical Psychology Conference 2005, University of Kwazulu Natal, June 28-July 1

• Ninth Annual Conference, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, California Institute of Technology, June 24-27

• Neurophilosophy: the State of the Art, McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, California Institute of Technology, June 18-23

• The Unity of Reason, Department of Philosophy, St. Andrews University, June 18-20

• Identity and Culture, Group for Cultural Studies in Turkey and Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Boðaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 14-17

• Reasoning, Models and Causes: Conference in Honour of Nancy Cartwright's 60th Birthday, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, June 13

• The Interactive Mind, Abden House, Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh. June 10-11

• 31st Annual Meeting, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Wake Forest University, June 9-12

• Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, June 4-5

• Perception Then and Now, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, May 7

• Philosophical Anthropology: Reviewed and Renewed, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, May 6-9

• Ninth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, May 4-7

• Body Modification Mark II, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, April 21-23

• Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, AISB 2005, University of Hertfordshire, April 12-15

• Next Generation Approaches to Machine Consciousness: Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment, University of Hertfordshire, April 12-13

• Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context, Second Conference of the Mind and World Working Group, University of Alabama at Birmingham, March 18 - March 21

• Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, March 18-21

• Mental Action, Philosophy Programme, University of London, March 18

• Self-Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester, March 5

• Perception and the External World, Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University, February 24

• The Nature of Consciousnesss, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, February 9

• Concepts and Conceptual Analysis, Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University, January 20-21

• Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity, and Theory of Mind, International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida, January 14-15

2004:

• The Contents of Consciousness, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, October 15

• Philosophy of the Emotions, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, September 29

• Workshop on Mental Causation, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, September 20.

• CEP2004: Science, Self and Meaning, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section, British Psychological Society, St Anne's College, Oxford, September 17-19

• International Language and Cognition Conference, Coff's Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, September 10-12

• Third Conference on the Dialogical Self, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, August 26-28

• Dimensions of Personhood, Concept of the Person Research Project, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 13-15

• Human, All Too Human, San Diego, August 3-6

• What is a Human Being? 9th Annual French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, France, July 13-19

• Fourth Annual Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations, University of California, Los Angeles, July 6-9

• First Joint Conference of ESPP and SPP, University of Barcelona, July 3-6

• New Aspects of Compositionality, Département de sciences cognitives, École Normale Supéieure, Juin 18-20 

• Inaugural Conference, Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group, Open University, June 14

• L'inscription corporelle de l'esprit: enjeux et évolutions: colloque en philosophie des sciences cognitives, DISCO (la Diversité des Systèmes Cognitifs), 72nd Congrès d'Acfas, Université de Quebec à Montréal, May 10-14

• Annual Conference, Canadian Anthropology Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, May 6-9

• An International Conference in the Philosophy of Mind In Honour of William Lyons, Trinity College Dublin / Royal Irish Academy, May 6-7

• Toward a Science of Consciousness, Sixth Annual Conference, Centre for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, April 7-11

• (Dis)Locating Identity in the 20th Century, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, April 3-4

• The Brain and its Self: a New Frontier of Neuroscience, departments of Psychology, Neurology, and Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, April 2-3

• Personal Identity and Public Policy, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling green State University, April 1-3

• Identities and Alterities, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, March 24-26

• 14th Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, March 15-17

• Compositionality, Concepts and Cognition, Düsseldorf, February 28-March 3

• From Galton to the Human Genome Project: a Critical Appraisal of Genetic Theories in Psychology and Psychiatry, Coventry University, January 28

2003:

• Consciousness, Emotion, and the Hard Problem: Integrating Analytic and Phenomenological Approaches, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World,  Easter APA Meeting, December 27-29

• First Australian Conference on Artificial Life, University of New South Wales, December 6-7

• Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Critical Issues, Vienna, October 20-22

• Where Is Your Head At?  Mental Processes, Communication and Rules, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), Vietri, Italy, October 2-3

• Scenographies of Suicide, Birbeck College, University of London, September 22-23

• Intersubjectivity and Embodiment. Perspectives from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, September 15-16

• Investigating the Mind: Exchanges Between Buddhism and the Behavioural Sciences, Harvard University, September 13-14

• Contesting Conflict, Challenging Consensus, Critical Psychology Conference, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, August 27-31

• Seventh International Conference on Persons, University of Memphis, August 6-9

• Advanced Interdisciplinary Workshop on Constructive Memory: Data and Models, New Bulgarian University, July 12-14

• European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Conference 2003, Torino, Italy, July 9-12

• Towards a Science of Consciousness: Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience, Charles University, July 6-10

• Society for Philosophy and Psychology 29th Annual Meeting, California Institute of Technology, June 18-21