Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Objectivity" Copenhague

21.09.2006 - 23.09.2006

Conference
Title: "Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Objectivity"

Thursday, September 21

09.15-09.30:   Welcome and Introduction
09.30-10.45:   Robert Pippin (University of Chicago): "On Maisie Knowing Her Own Mind: Ordinary Self-Knowledge"

10.45-12.00:   Volker Gerhardt (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): “Individuality versus Subjectivity: The reasons for and advantages of a conceptual clarification”

12.00-13.30:   Lunch Break

13.30-14.45:   Günter Figal (Universität Freiburg): “The objects of subjectivity”

14.45-16.00:   José Luis Bermúdez (Washington University, St. Louis): “The sense of “I”” 

16.00-16.30:   Coffee Break

16.30-17.45:   Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): “The situated self”

Friday, September 22

09.00-10.15:   Owen Flanagan (Duke University): “Autophenomenology and Heterophenomenology Revisited”

10.15-11.30:   Richard Moran (Harvard University): “The Speaker and the Agent's Point of View”

11.30-12.45:   Lunch Break

12.45-14.00:   Richard Bernstein (The New School for Social Research): “Intersubjectivity, Objectivity and Pragmatism”

14.00-15.15:   Ingolf Dalferth (Universität Zürich): “The self-interpreting animal”

15.15-15.45:   Coffee Break

15.45-17.00:   Axel Honneth (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt):  “Self-reification: Contours of a failed form of self-relationship”

17.00-18.15:   Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): “Self Relating”

Saturday, September 23

09.30-10.45:   Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma): "Intentional Attunement: Neural correlates of intersubjectivity"

10.45-12.00:   Philippe Rochat (Emory University): "Mine! Possession, ownership and sharing in young children across cultures”

12.00-13.30:   Lunch Break

13.30-14.45:   Peter Hobson (University College London): ”On identifying with others”

14.45-16.00:   Louis Sass (Rutgers): “The doublet and the flesh: Reflections on consciousness and intersubjectivity in the light of psychopathology”

16.00-16.30:   Coffee Break

16.30-17.45:   Josef Parnas (University of Copenhagen): “What is a first-person perspective?”

Organized by Dan Zahavi.

Location: University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of Humanities, Auditorium 22.0.11, Njalsgade 140-142, Copenhagen S.

More information to follow.

12.06.2006 14.15-16.00

Lecture by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA

Title: "Schizophrenia and the Comet's Tail of Nature."

Location: Købmagergade 46, lecture room 12, 4th floor, 1150 Copenhagen K.

Organized in collaboration with Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

09.06.2006 9.30-11.00

Lecture by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA

Title: "Thinking in Movement."

Location: Store Auditorium, Nørre Allé 51, 2200 Copenhagen N.

Organized in collaboration with Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

01.06.2006 14.15-16.00

Lecture by Louis Sass, Graduate School of Applied and Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University

Title: ""A falling star": Otto Weininger and the sovereign self in fin-de-siecle Vienna."

Location: Købmagergade 46, lecture room 11, 3rd floor, 1150 Copenhagen K.

30.05.2006 10.15-12.00

Lecture by Shaun Gallagher, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, USA

Title: "Simulation theory and the perception of others in action."

Location: CFS, lecture room 403, 4th floor, Købmagergade 44-46, 1150 Copenhagen K

Prior registration required: pkh@cfs.ku.dk

25.05.2006 - 26.05.2006

Conference/PhD course
Title: "Philosophical issues in psychiatry: Natural kinds, mental taxonomy and causation"

Thursday, May 25 Location: Lecture Hall H06, University of Copenhagen, Main Building, Frue Plads, Copenhagen K
09.00-09.40	Josef Parnas (CFS, University of Copenhagen) and Kenneth Kendler (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA): Welcome and Introduction. Theoretical and pragmatic challenges of today’s psychiatry
09.40-11.00	James F. Woodward (California Institute of Technology, USA): Mental Causation and neural Mechanisms
11.00-11.20	Coffee break
11.20-12.30	Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida, USA): A proposal for mental causation
12.30-13.50	Lunch Break
13.50-15.10	Peter Zachar (Auburn University, Montgomery, USA): Psychiatric disorders can be ‘real kinds’ but psychiatry cannot discover a true taxonomy of mental disorders:  An analogy from biological systematics
15.10-15.40	Coffee break
15.40-17.00	Kenneth Schaffner (George Washington University, USA): Etiological Models in Psychiatry: Reductive and Non-reductive Approaches
Friday, May 26 Location: Alexander Hall, Bispetorvet 1-3, Copenhagen K
09.00-10.25	John Campbell (University of California, Berkeley, USA): TBA
10.25-10.45	Coffee break
10.45-12.05	Sandra D. Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh, USA): Explanatory pluralism:  explaining complex behaviour
12.05-13.25	Lunch break
13.25-14.45	Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology, USA): Levels of explanation in psychiatry
14.45-15.05	Coffee break
15.05-16.25	Jean Petitot (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and Ecole Polytechnique CREA, France): Visual hallucinations: Entoptic physicalist emergentism
16.25-17.00	Kenneth Kendler: Closing comments

Each lecture includes an invited response and general discussion.

The conference is organized and sponsored jointly by the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (CFS); Department of Psychiatry, H:S Hvidovre Hospital (HH), and The Graduate School of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Conference organizers:  Prof. Dr. Josef Parnas, MD (CFS) and Prof. Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, MD (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA).

Participation is free, but prior registration is required: Please contact Pia Kirkemann Hansen at pkh@cfs.ku.dk