Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar Series
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University of Oxford
This page is for those attending the Oxford Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar, which is hosted online during University of Oxford's term times. Meetings will take place on Monday afternoons via Zoom (UK standard time). The link for each meeting will be sent ahead of time to registered participants. Please be aware: the timings for the meetings will vary from week to week, so please take a note of the schedule.
Schedule for Trinity Term 2021
Week 1: Monday 26th April, 2pm: David Papineau (King's College London): “The metaphysical incoherence of representationalism”
Week 2: Monday 3rd May, 3pm: Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto): "The two-dimensionalist argument for materialism"
Week 3: Monday 10th May, 3pm: Benj Hellie (University of Toronto) "Consciousness does not have a metaphysics"
Week 4: Monday 17th May, 2pm: Katalin Farkas (Central European University): "Phenomenal intentionality and phenomenal functionalism"
Week 5: Monday 24th May, 2pm: Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin): “Rethinking the attitudes”
Week 6: Monday 31st May, 2pm: Alex Moran (University of Oxford): "On why grounding physicalists need contingent grounding laws"
Week 7: Monday June 7th, 2pm: Brian Cutter (University of Notre Dame): "The value of consciousness: an axiological argument against reductive materialism."
Week 8: Monday June 14th, 2pm: Ned Block (New York University): "How science can show that perception is non-conceptual and non-propositional.”
Previous Talks
18th January: Philip Goff (Durham University): "Panpsychism and Robust Value Realism"
25th January: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University): "Naturalistic Dualism and the Problem of the Physical Correlate"
1st February: Angela Mendelovici (University of Western Ontario): "Deep Internalism"
8th February: Ralf Bader (Université de Fribourg): "Grounding, Reduction, and Consciousness"
15th February: Barbara Montero (City University of New York): "Goodbye Supervenience"
22nd February: Tim Crane (Central European University of Vienna): "The Zombie Hypothesis as a Sceptical Hypothesis"
1st March: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College): "The Significance of Non-Empirical Questions"
8th March: Adam Pautz (Brown University): "The Significance Argument for the Irreducibility of Consciousness"
15th March: Mark Johnston (Princeton University): "Are Qualia Mental Properties?"
How to attend: If you wish to attend (and have not yet been to any of the meetings), please write to one of the organisers. We will send you either an invitation to the Zoom meeting (if the event is not at full capacity) or otherwise a private link to the livestream of the event. We will monitor the chat box under the livestream video and channel questions/comments from there to the Zoom chat box for discussion. Should you receive a livestream link, please treat it as private and do not share it on social media. The events will not be recorded or widely broadcasted.