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November, 6-7, 2009 An international scientific conference on consciousness organized by the Department of Philosophy of Moscow State University, conducted on the campus of MSU.
Conference topics:
The main problems of philosophy of consciousness as a section of analytical philosophy and its relation to the historical origins of these problems in classical philosophy and experimental science of consciousness.
November, 6. Plenary:
The mind-body problem and related questions on the philosophy of consciousness.
Section 1. Ontology of consciousness.
Section 2. Classical and analytic philosophy of mind.
Section 3. Philosophy of mind and experimental science of consciousness.
Proposed questions for discussion:
– Mind-body problem in its current status
– “The hard problem of consciousness”: why we are not zombies?
– Irreducible of mental
– The problem of mental causality
– Duality and the theory of identity
– Is it possible to refute epiphenomenalism?
– Interactionism and the problem of causal closure of physical
– The Chinese Room Argument
– The thought experiment “Mary”
– The problem of intentionality of consciousness in the analytic tradition
– Consciousness and language
– Biological naturalism of John Searle
– Theory of Consciousness of D. Dennett
– Naturalistic dualism of D. Chalmers
– The origins of analytical philosophy of consciousness in the classical tradition
– Neural correlates of consciousness
– Evolution of Consciousness
– Can a machine think and be conscious?
– Methodological problems of philosophy of consciousness
– Philosophy of mind and experimental science
Organizing Committee and Program Committee:
V.V. Mironov
Dean of the of Philosophy Department of Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of RAS
Professor V.I. Markin
Chair of the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy
Professor V.V. Vasilyev
Professor F. I. Girenok
Associate Professor E.V Kosilova
