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The Philosophy Department of Moscow State University with participation of The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies organized a conference: “The Philosophy of Consciousness: Past and Present. Fourth Gryaznovsky’s Reading” on Nov. 7th.
The conference was attended by well-known experts in this area.
The first part of the conference was devoted to the analytic philosophy of the mind while the second part – to the problem of consciousness in the history of philosophy. The final event of the conference – a round table “The Puzzle of Consciousness in the Empirical and Conceptual Perspective ” was held at the Department of the History of Philosophy.
It must be said that the conference lasted more than 12 hours. Despite this, the interest of the participants to the problems of consciousness stimulated intense debate from beginning to the end.
A piano concert by Mikhail Piatigorsky was organized at the Center, experts were able to discuss issues on consciousness in an informal environment. Also, as part of the evening, there were held blitz interviews with the philosophers. The records are to appear later.
