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Welcome to ’Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015’ the 21st annual international, interdisciplinary conference on the fundamental questions connected with conscious experience.

Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud to host TSC 2015 in the Great Hall of its neoclassical main building located in the downtown area.

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Concurrent talks [clear filter]
Tuesday, June 9
 

2:30pm EEST

Free Will and Personal Identinty I
9 June 02:30 PM – 04:35 PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Conscious Agency and the Preconscious/Unconscious Self 
Max Velmans, Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UNITED KINGDOM

A neurodynamic perspective on free will, decision making and downward causation
Hans Liljenström, The Sigtuna Foundation, Agora for Biosystems, Sigtuna, SWEDEN

Free Will and Consciousness

Pakize Arikan Sandikcioglu, Sociology, Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Nevsehir, TURKEY

Specifically human? Agency and the limitations of a Neo-Kantian picture of self-consciousness.
Irene Bucelli, Philosophy , King's College London, LONDON , UNITED KINGDOM


Chair
KL

Kristjan Loorits

University of Helsinki

Presenters
IB

Irene Bucelli

King's College London
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Hans Liljenström

Sigtuna Foundation, Agora for Biosystems
Hans Liljenström (born in 1956) received his MSc in engineering physics in 1982 and PhD in theoretical physics (with Prof. Clas Blomberg as supervisor) in 1987 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He spent a postdoc period with Prof. John Hopfield at Caltech... Read More →
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Pakize Arikan Sandikcioglu

Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University
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Max Velmans

Goldsmiths, University of London



Tuesday June 9, 2015 2:30pm - 4:35pm EEST
Main Building, auditorium XI

2:30pm EEST

Structure of Consciousness
9 June 02:30 PM – 04:35 PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Who the Hell is Conscious, and What the Heck of? – A Constructivist Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
Ilkka Kallio, Independent scholar, Helsinki, FINLAND

Parts of Consciousness
Cameron Bosinski, Biology, University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA

Mentality as a Domain in Consciousness
Fabrice Bothereau, Lycée, Ministère Education Nationale, Blois, FRANCE

Towards a Holistic Conception of Phenomenal Consciousness
Holger Thiel, Philosophy, Central European University Budapest, Berlin, GERMANY

Degrees of Consciousness - Implications for Autonomy
Anna Frammartino Wilks, Philosophy, Acadia University, Wolfville NS, CANADA



Chair
MG

Mihretu Guta

Durham University

Presenters
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Cameron Bosinski

University at Buffalo
bosinski.cameron@gmail.com
FB

Fabrice Bothereau

Ministère Education Nationale
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Ilkka Kallio

Independent scholar
My constructivist notion of consciousness welcomes constructive criticism. I believe my two arguments for it - one conceptual, the other empirical - are well-founded. If they hold, consciousness studies need a change of course to be socially relevant.
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Holger Thiel

PhD Student, Central European University Budapest
AF

Anna Frammartino Wilks

Acadia University



Tuesday June 9, 2015 2:30pm - 4:35pm EEST
Main Building (new side), room 5 Fabianinkatu 33
 


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