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October 2019
Lunch Seminar with Annabelle Dufourcq
During this Lunch Seminar, Annabelle Dufourcq will present her ERC proposal “Animal Subjects: Phenomenology and Animal Sciences”. Abstract: The main objective of this project is to foster the systematic recognition of animal subjectivity by enabling a methodical cross-fertilizing dialogue between phenomenology and animal sciences, thus making a vital contribution to the understanding and the furtherance of human-animal intersubjectivity. The intuition that animals are not simply objects is widely shared in society and science. However, to approach animals as subjects meets…
Find out more »Animal subjects. Phenomenology and animal sciences
October 16th Annabelle Dufourcq on her ERC proposal on animal subjectivity From 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS 01.140. "The main objective of this project is to foster the systematic recognition of animal subjectivity by enabling a methodical cross-fertilizing dialogue between phenomenology and animal sciences, thus making a vital contribution to the understanding and the furtherance of human-animal intersubjectivity."
Find out more »November 2019
Lunch Seminar: ‘First saying, then believing:the pragmatic roots of folk psychology’
During our lunch seminar next Wednesday (November 13th), Bart Geurts will give a talk titled ‘First saying, then believing: the pragmatic roots of folk psychology.’ You can find the abstract for his talk below. The meeting will take place at the familiar time in the familiar room: from 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS 01.140. Hope to see you next Wednesday in large numbers! Abstract: First saying, then believing: the pragmatic roots of folk psychology There are two social…
Find out more »Lunch Seminar: Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective
Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective Most of our cognitive abilities—remembering, deciding, thinking—are enabled by ‘subpersonal’ factors: small-scale interactive processes between our brains, bodies and environments of which we cannot become conscious. Nonetheless, our understanding of cognitive abilities is largely based on the familiar conscious part of our minds. This implicitly leads to the anthropomorphic assumption that nonhuman animals think, decide, judge and remember in ways that resemble human, brain-based conscious reflection, which turns the…
Find out more »February 2020
Lunch Seminar “What are Commitments?”
Next Wednesday (February 12th) we will have Guido Löhr (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) as our speaker. His talk is aptly titled “What are commitments?”. Please find the abstract below. We will meet from 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS01.140 (yes, it’s our familiar room!). Hope to see you all there! Abstract: What are commitments? The notion of commitment has been applied widely in our theorizing of action (joint action, speech acts, reasons for acting). But what exactly are commitments? This question has not…
Find out more »Lunch Seminar: A Third Way to Think About Mental Represetations
Next Wednesday, February 26th, Samuel Taylor will again join us, this time with a talk on a third way to think of mental representations. You can find an abstract to his talk below. We will meet from 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS 01.140. In addition, for those who are interested: The Philosophy section of the Faculty of Law also hosts lunch seminars on topics related to justice. These meetings take place on Tuesdays from 12.20 to 13.20. You can contact…
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