TSC 2015

9 June 02:30 PM – 04:35 PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Predictive processing, interoception and emotional experience.
Jose M. Araya, Philosophy, The University Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

Emotions and the Distinction Between Minimal and Narrative Self: A Phenomenological Account
Anna Bortolan, Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM

How can we account for the badness of pain?
Max Hayward, Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

The early ontogenesis of existential feelings
Jussi Saarinen, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, FINLAND

10 June 02:30PM – 04:35PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Long-term meditation alters both visual responses and resting state fluctuations in visual and DMN areas
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Michal Harel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Avital Hahami, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Amos Arieli, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Rafael Malach, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL

Where is My Mind? Investigating the Neural Correlates of Mind Wandering and Meditation
Tracy Brandmeyer, Neuroscience, CNRS, Toulouse, FRANCE 
Arnaud Delorme, Neuroscience, CNRS, Toulouse, FRANCE

EEG differences between meditators and non-meditators during multistable perception
Jürgen Kornmeier, Perception and Cognition, IGPP, Freiburg, GERMANY
Evelyn Friedel, Section Visual Function, University Eye-Hospital, Freiburg, GERMANY
Stefan Schmidt, Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin, Freiburg, GERMANY
Harald Atmanspacher, Collegium Helveticum, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Marc Wittmann, IGPP, Freiburg, GERMANY

Power Law of Meditational Consciousness
Prem Saran Satsangi, Advisory Committee on Education, Dayalbagh Educational Institutions, Agra, INDIA 
Vishal Sahni, Centre for Consciousness Studies, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, INDIA

Investigating the Depths of Consciousness Through Meditation. Outlines of an Interdisciplinary Contemplative Phenomenology
Terje Sparby, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Gießen, GERMANY

11 June 02:30PM – 04:35PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

A Phenomenological Investigation Reframing Mediums as Mystics
Jennifer Lyke, Psychology, Richard Stockton College, Galloway, USA

The nature and etiology of unsymbolized thinking
Fernando Martínez-Manrique, Philosophy I, University of Granada, Granada, SPAIN
Agustín Vicente, Linguistic and Basque Studies, Ikerbasque, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, SPAIN

NOT REGISTERED (break for 25 min?) Involved consciousness: Maori relationships with things in the world
Carl Mika, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND

Conscious Agent Theory: A formal theory of consciousness
Chetan Prakash, Mathematics, California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

Serious Music – A means for communicating with, observing and evolving the nonverbal mind
Noor Zehra , Musicology, Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts , Lahore, PAKISTAN
Iram Tauqir, Philosophy, Sanjar Nagar Institute of Philosophy of Arts

 

June 03:45 – 05:00

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Combination of Western and Eastern perspectives on creativity in a four-criterion construct
Anatoliy Kharkhurin, International Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

The Quintessential Tension: conceptual pluralism and creativity
Christopher Robertson, Philosophy, Independent (formerly Sorbonne Paris IV), Paris, FRANCE

What does creative thinking really mean?
Judit Simon, Social Sciences, Special Education Stockholm University, Stockholm, SWEDEN

June 12 03:45 – 05:00

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Becoming more conscious: using the Consciousness Quotient Inventory (CQ-i) as a psychological tool for increasing conscious awareness and facilitating inner growth process
Ovidiu Brazdau, Research, Consciousness Quotient Institute, New York, USA
Jennifer Luna Tuazon, West Visayas State University, Iloilo, PHILIPPINES

Achieving body self-awareness in playing a musical instrument through the phenomenological method.
Annamaria Minafra, Lifelong and Comparative Education, UCL Institute of Education, Firenze, ITALY

MUUPU – A mindfulness and value-based research program to reduce work burnout and to promote well-being
Anne Puolakanaho, Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, University of Jyvaskyla, FINLAND
Sanna Kinnunen, Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, University of Jyvaskyla, FINLAND

 

12 June 03:45PM – 05:00

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

An Ecological Account of Self-Consciousness
Caglan Cinar Dilek, Central European University

From a sensorimotor account of conscious quality, to a sensorimotor account of phenomenal consciousness tout court
David Silverman, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris Descartes University, Paris, FRANCE

A Compatibilist Strategy for Responding to the Manipulation Arguments
Artem Besedin, Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

12 June 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Conscious Spacetime - related to integration of 1st and 3rd perspective of consciousness and integration of block time and subjective time
Jan Pilotti, Theoretical Physics, Pilotti Science&Art, Örebro, SWEDEN

Two ways of sharing goals
Alessandro Salice, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, DENMARK
Glenda Satne, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, DENMARK

NOT REGISTERED (break for 25 min?) The Artificial Other
Kari Yli-Annala, Film and Scenography, Aalto University, Helsinki, FINLAND

13 June 09:00 AM - 11:05 AM
 
Understanding understanding: how Searleans and behaviourists agree
Jon Erik Andersson, Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, SWEDEN

Singular mental files
Juan Jose Lara, Philosophy, IES. Tirant lo Blanc, Elche, SPAIN

Phenomenology and Externalism: a Perfect Marriage?
Corijn van Mazijk, Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS

25 min break (due to the cancellation of Ayoob Shahmoradi's presentation)

Are phenomenal concepts innate?
Assaf Weksler, Philosophy, Ben Gurion University, Modiin, ISRAEL

13 June 09:00 AM - 11:05 AM

Being No One Else. On Barry Dainton's Concept of the Person in "The Phenomenal Self"
Ludwig Jaskolla, Philosophy, Munich School of Philosophy, Munich, GERMANY
Ludwig Gierstl, Munich School of Philosophy, Munich, GERMANY

A Phenomenologically Motivated Approach to Introspection
Ivan M. Havel, Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University Prague, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Intentional Horizon and Cognitive Phenomenology
Marta Jorba, Department of Philosophy, University of Girona, Barcelona, SPAIN

RATIONALITY AND THE PRIVACY OF THE SELF
Francis Pearson, Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM

Panpsychism’s Hard Problem: A Comparative Analysis of Explanatory Gaps
Luke Roelofs, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA

 

13 June 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Thinking toes...? Proposing a reflective order of embodied self-consciousness
Camille Buttingsrud, Philosophy, Former: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S,
DENMARK

Bodily Awareness and Reflection: The Phenomenology of Dance
Petronella Foultier, Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SWEDEN