BODIES OF THOUGHT: FLESHY SUBJECTS,
EMBODIED MINDS, & HUMAN NATURES
Royal Society of Edinburgh (22-26 George Street, Edinburgh)
9th – 10th June, 2011
Thursday 9th June
1:00 – 2:00
Registration RSE (22-26 George Street)
2:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rachel Jones (University of Dundee)
Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling)
2:15 – 3:30
Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), “A-Life, AI and B-Life: The Cognitive Sciences, Bare Life and Birthed Life”
3:30 – 3:45
Coffee
3:45 – 4:50
Veronica Vasterling (Radbound University), “Nature-Nurture Revisited: The Dualist Underpinnings of Evolutionary Psychology and Social Constructionism”
Mirko Farina (MACCS, Sydney / University of Edinburgh), “Finding My Mind: A Case for Extended Cognition”
4:50 – 5:00
Short Break
5:00 – 6:00
Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling), “Ways of Mattering: Embodied Thought and Thinking Bodies”
Friday 10th June
9:00 – 9:15
Registration (22-26 George Street)
9:15 – 10:15
John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Populations of Subjects”
10:15 – 10:25
Short Break
10:25 – 11:25
Chryssa Sdrolia (Goldsmiths, University of London), “For a Panexperientialist Metaphysics of Thought”
Lauren Freeman (Concordia University, Montreal), “Challenging A Panoptics of the Womb: Phenomenological Responses to the Problem of Diminished Epistemic Authority in Pregnancy”
11:25 – 11:45
Coffee
11:45 – 1:00
Susan Oyama (John Jay College & CUNY), “Incidence, Essence, and Developmental Systems”
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch (Sandwich Buffet at RSE)
2:00 – 3:00
Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh), “Methodologies That Matter”
Saray Ayala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Manipulating Bodies & Incorporating Technology: Re-inventing Sex”
3:00 – 3:15
Coffee
3:15 – 4:15
Jess Cadwallader (University of Groningen), “Sedimentation, Wounded Attachments and Forgetting: Phenomenology and Psychopharmacology”
Eva De Clercq (University of Pisa), “Toward an Ontology of Corporeal Uniqueness”
4:15 – 5:00
Roundtable discussion
5:00
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