Past Meetings



Meeting 44

Ken Nakayama (Harvard)

Friday, December 9th, 4 to 6pm, Room B19 of STH
Subjective Contours
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Meeting 43

Nancy Kanwisher (MIT)

Friday, October 28th, 4 to 6pm
Functional Specialization in the Human Brain: Evidence from fMRI
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Meeting 42

Louise Antony (UMass Amherst)

Friday, September 30th, 4 to 6pm
"In Praise of Loose Talk: Three Ways of Following a Rule"
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Meeting 41

Peter Tse

Friday May 13th, 2011 from 4 to 6 pm
A criterial neuronal code underlies downward mental causation and free will
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Meeting 38

David Rosenthal

Monday, March 21, 2011 from 4 to 6pm
Two Concepts of Mental Quality
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Meeting 40

Uriah Kriegel

Friday, May 6, 2011 from 2 to 4 pm
Deflating the Problem of Consciousness without Deflating Consciousness
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Meeting 39

Patricia Churchland

Friday, April 1, 2011 from 4 to 6pm
Brain-based values
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Meeting 37

Christopher Hill

Friday, March 4, 2011 from 4 to 6pm
Locating Qualia: Do They Reside in the Brain or in the Body and the World?"
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Meeting 36

Paula Droege

Friday, February 18, 2011 from 4 to 6pm
Now or never: How consciousness represents time
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Meeting 35

Robert Briscoe

Friday, January 28, 2011 from 4 to 6pm
Space, Consciousness, and Control
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Meeting 34

Dan Dennett

Friday, December 10, 2010 from 1 to 3pm
Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind
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Meeting 33

Imogen Dickie

Friday, December 3, 2010 from 1 to 3pm
Perception as a Source of Knowledge-Which
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Meeting 32

Joshua Knobe

Friday, October 29, 2010 from 4 to 6pm
Intuitions about Consciousness: Experimental Studies
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Meeting 31

Jesse Prinz

Friday, September 24, 2010 from 1 to 3pm
Consciousness = Attention
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Meeting 29

Daniel Pollen

Friday, April 16th, 2010. 4-6pm.
"On the Emergence of Primary Visual Perception"
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Meeting 28

Selmer Bringsjord

March 26, 2010
When it Comes to Understanding Human-Level Intelligence and Consciousness, the Blue Brain Project is a Prodigious Waste of Time
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Meeting 27

Peter Kugel

February 24, 2010
Minds may be computers but…
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Meeting 30

Ed Boyden

Tuesday, April 27, 2009. 4-6pm.
Engineering Consciousness: An Interactive Workshop
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Meeting 25

David Gamez

Thursday, October 29, 2009. 4-6pm.
The Science of Human and Machine Consciousness
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Meeting 26

Patrick Cavanagh

Tuesday, December 1, 2009. 4-6pm.
The Position Sense
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Meeting 24

Jeremy Wolfe

Friday, October 23rd, 2009. 4-6pm.
"Bags, breasts, and lots of little cells: New adventures in visual search"
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Meeting 23

Michael Tye

Friday, September 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
"Attention!"
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Meeting 22

Alva Noe

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. 4-6PM
"Out of Our Heads"
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Meeting 21

David Chalmers

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. 4-6PM
"The Extended Mind, Revisited"
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Meeting 20

Alex Byrne and Pawan Sinha

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
On Molyneaux's Problem
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Meeting 19

Steve Grossberg

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
"How to Link Mind to Brain: Towards Solving the Mind/Body Problem"
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Meeting 18

Christof Koch

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009. 4-6PM
Consciousness and Attention: Related but Distinct Processes
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Meeting 17

Ted Gibson

Monday, February 23rd, 2009. 4-6PM.
Sentence and text comprehension: Evidence from human language processing
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Meeting 16

Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008. 4-6PM
"What Do We See?"
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Meeting 15

Georg Northoff (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008. 6-8PM
"The Self and its Brain - A Neurophilosophical Account"
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Meeting 14

Hakwan Lau (Columbia University)

Monday, October 6th, 2008. 4-6PM
"Visual Awareness and the Dynamic Threshold Hypothesis"
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Meeting 13

Peter Cariani (Harvard University)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008. 4-6PM
"Organizational closure through neuronal signal regeneration as a possible basis for conscious awareness"
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Meeting 12

Takeo Watanabe

Tuesday, April 19, 2008. 4-6PM
"Processing of invisible signals informs the processing of consciousness"
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Meeting 11

John Symons

Friday, April 18, 2008. 4-6PM
"Pain and Embodiment"
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Meeting 10

Justin Broackes

Tuesday, March 18, 2008. 4-6PM
"What do the Colorblind See?"
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Meeting 9

Sean Kelly

Wednesday, February 27, 2008. 4-6PM
"Content and Constancy"
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Meeting 8

Jeremy Wolfe

Tuesday, January 29, 2008. 3:30-5:30PM
"What can Visual Attention Tell us About Consciousness and Volition?"
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Meeting 7

Moshe Bar

Tuesday, November 27, 2007. 4-6PM
"The Proactive Brain: Using Analogies and Associations to Generate Predictions"
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Meeting 6

Dan Schacter

Tuesday, October 16, 2007. 4-6PM
"The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: Remembering the past and imagining the future"
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Meeting 5

Carolyn Suchy-Dicey

Tuesday, September 18, 2007. 4-6PM
"Consciousness in the Cortices--A Reply to Block"
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Meeting 4

Howard Eichenbaum

Tuesday, May 15, 2007. 4-6PM
"The Neural Basis of Recollection"
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Meeting 3

Walter Freeman

Tuesday, May 1, 2007. 4-6PM
"Explaining animal minds as intentional, self-organizing, creative systems in prelude to understanding consciousness"
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Meeting 2

Ned Block

Tuesday, March 20, 2007. 4-6PM
"Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience"
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Meeting 1

Rebecca Saxe

Thursday, March 1, 2007. 5-7PM
"Overview of Recent Conceptual Advances (and Puzzles) in Cognitive Neuroscience"
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