Thursday, April 22, 2010

恭喜舜斌拿到NYU的訪問獎學金!!

恭喜意識研究群成員許舜斌獲得美國紐約大學 (New York University) 哲學系Balzan Fellowship,將受邀前往訪問一年(2010-2011)!
Balzan Fellowship將提供訪問期間的學費、生活費、零用金等27,236美元,以及保險費與台北紐約來回機票!

恭喜志怡拿到NYU的訪問獎學金!!

恭喜意識研究群成員洪志怡獲得美國紐約大學 (New York University) 哲學系Balzan Fellowship,將受邀前往訪問一年(2010-2011)!
Balzan Fellowship將提供訪問期間的學費、生活費、零用金等27,236美元,以及保險費與台北紐約來回機票!

恭喜簡芃拿到入學許可和獎學金!

恭喜本所研究生簡芃獲得加拿大亞伯達大學(University of Alberta)哲學系博士學程之入學許可與全額獎學金(Fellowship)。

恭喜佳樺拿到入學許可和獎學金!

恭喜本所研究生林佳樺獲得美國南卡羅來納大學(University of South Carolina)哲學系博士學程之入學許可與獎學金(Graduate Assistantship)。

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science


October 3 – 6 2010, University of Potsdam

KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science

Join us for the 10th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK, Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft) "KogWis 2010"! The conference will take place at the University of Potsdam, one of Germany’s youngest and liveliest universities, surrounded by the beautiful parks of Sanssouci, and located a short distance from Berlin.

Plenary Speakers

Invited Symposia

Associated Events

Program Chairs

Ria de Bleser (Potsdam), Ralf Engbert (Potsdam), Christopher Habel (Hamburg), John-Dylan Haynes (HU Berlin), Christoph Hoelscher (Freiburg), Reinhold Kliegl (Potsdam), Markus Knauff (Giessen), Michel Pauen (HU Berlin), Torsten Schaub (Potsdam), Ute Schmid (Bamberg), Manfred Stede (Potsdam), Ralf Stoecker (Potsdam), Manfred Thüring (TU Berlin), Leon Urbas (TU Dresden), Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam), Marianne Vater (Potsdam), Heike Wiese (Potsdam)

Friday, April 16, 2010

'My Brain Made Me Do It'

'My Brain Made Me Do It'

A 22-year-old author discusses the threat that brain science poses to our concept of free will

At age 22, Eliezer Sternberg has just published his second book on neuroscience and philosophy: “My Brain Made Me Do It,” now out from Prometheus Books. In it, he argues that our growing understanding of how the brain works does not mean the end of moral responsibility. Rather, he sees free will as a special property that emerges from more basic brain functions. A student at Tufts Medical School, he took time out from his first-year exams to talk with Mind Matters co-editor Carey Goldberg....(more)

嚇人的是這位作者...才22歲。更嚇人的是...搞什麼,訪問內容中很明顯地,這些事情我們早都知道了。
如果說有什麼自己的觀點,就是「free will is an emergent property」以及「determinism is not compatible with morality/responsibility」兩點。然而訪問中並沒有論證,很好奇他如何論述前者,也質疑後者可能是個天真爛漫的直覺。

總之,一本簡單的入門書,我們都可以寫。為何不呢?(若你們真的想要寫書,讓我參一腳!)

Lynn

Thursday, April 15, 2010

研究生論文發表團出發囉!--- 多倫多-尼加拉瀑布-紐約曼哈頓-波士頓團


在6月出發的是多倫多-尼加拉瀑布-紐約曼哈頓-波士頓團!

這團的成員有:
洪老師、舜斌、簡芃、凌峰、映彤、志怡、柏青,
還有兩位目前已經在美國念哲學博士班的如玉(約翰霍普金斯大學哲學系)和千蕙(密蘇里大學哲學系),這兩位也都是意識研究群的成員!

多倫多-紐約曼哈頓-波士頓團將先前往加拿大多倫多的The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC14)發表論文,再到尼加拉瀑布、紐約曼哈頓、波士頓去玩!




今年被ASSC14接受的論文有:
1. Emma Chien (簡芃) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). “A new way of explaining schizophrenia and the immunity to error through misidentification”
2. Chia-Hua Lin (林佳樺) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). “A possibility of a non-unified representational self-consciousness”
3. Ying-Tung Lin (林映彤) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏).“Do dementia patients lose their self?”
4. Chihyi Hung (洪志怡) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏).“The detectable consciousness and the phenomenology”
5. Shun-Pin Hsu (許舜斌) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). “Can Subjectivity be Explained Away?”
6. Ling-Fong Kuo (郭凌峰) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). “Do we need the environment to determine the content of consciousness?”
7. Karen Yan (嚴如玉). “Self-consciousness and anosognosia in Alzheimer's dementia”
8. Lynn Chiu (邱千蕙). “Deferential phenomenal concepts? Not for the Zombie Mary”

研究生論文發表團出發囉!--- Tucson沙漠團


4月份的Tucson沙漠團目前已經抵達美國亞利桑那州Tucson(Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010)發表論文囉!

前往發表論文的2篇口頭報告(oral presentation)和2篇海報(poster presentation)!

口頭報告的有志怡和Thomas!
1. Hung, C. Y. (洪志怡) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏). “The Detectable Consciousness”
2. Benda, T. (卞拓蒙) (2010). “Minds, Machines, and Lucas-Penrose”


壁報報告的則是佳樺和任瑜:
1. Lin, C. H. (林佳樺) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏). “From the Self-Awareness to the Other Minds”
2. Liu, J. Y. (劉任瑜). “The human mind may be a Turing-machine-like system even if theLucas-Penrose argument is right”


除了以上4個報告,另外也有5篇論文被Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010接受!
1. Chien, P. (簡芃) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏). “An Argument Against the Ability Hypothesis”
2. Hsu, S. P. (許舜斌) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏). “Are Our Phenomenal World Opaque?”
3. Kuo, T. (郭凌峰) (2010). “Still Being Someone”
4. Lin, Y. T. (林映彤) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏). “Mary, No Pain, No Gain”
5. Yu, L. A. (游立安) (2010). “Is there a room for free will in many-worlds?”

Tucson沙漠團也會順道到洛杉磯和舊金山玩,大家期待他們去玩的照片吧!

Friday, April 09, 2010

2010心哲所碩士班招生考試錄取名單出爐囉!

國立陽明大學心智哲學研究所 九十九學年度(2010)碩士班招生考試 錄取名單


正取 5 名

320007 郭凌峰  320008 謝耀文  320022 秦蕙敏  320005 溫尹廷   320016 蔡承佑

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320024 李威諄  320001 林紀存  320021 鄭依書  320018 林新凱   320013 廖國智

Friday, April 02, 2010

好消息!今年6篇論文投稿ASSC14的論文都被接受了!

心智哲學所與意識研究群的研究生簡芃、林佳樺、林映彤、洪志怡、研究助理許舜斌、郭凌峰投稿論文已被The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC14) 接受!
大家將於2010年6月24至27日至加拿大多倫多(Toronto, Canada) 出席會議並發表論文!

這六篇論文的作者與標題如下:

Emma Chien (簡芃) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “A new way of explaining schizophrenia and the immunity to error through misidentification” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

Ying-Tung Lin (林映彤) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “Do dementia patients lose their self?” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

Chia-Hua Lin (林佳樺) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “A possibility of a non-unified representational self-consciousness” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

Chihyi Hung (洪志怡) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “The detectable consciousness and the phenomenology” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

Shun-Pin Hsu (許舜斌) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “Can Subjectivity be Explained Away?” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

Ling-Fong Kuo (郭凌峰) and Allen Y. Houng (洪裕宏). (2010). “Do we need the environment to determine the content of consciousness?” The 14th Annual Meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2010.

好消息!志怡和佳樺拿到研究生出席國際會議獎學金!

好消息!

心智哲學所與意識研究群研究生洪志怡投稿論文已被Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010接受為口頭報告(oral presentation),研究生林佳樺投稿論文已被Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010接受為壁報報告(poster presentation)。

志怡和佳樺皆獲得陽明大學國際事務處頒發之研究生出席國際會議獎學金(Graduate Student Travel Award),補助機票和生活費,口頭報告亦補助會議註冊費!

志怡與佳樺將於2010年4月12至17日至美國亞利桑那州土桑市(Tucson, Arizona)出席會議並發表論文!


發表的論文題目和作者如下:

口頭報告:
Hung, C. Y. (洪志怡) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏) (2010). “The Detectable Consciousness ”, Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010, Arizona, United States, April 12-17, 2010.

壁報報告:
Lin, C. H. (林佳樺) & Houng, Y. H. (洪裕宏) (2010). “From the Self-Awareness to the Other Minds”, Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010, Arizona, United States, April 12-17, 2010.