Wednesday, October 30, 2013

GSAPMC 2013 Autumn Lecture Series (No.6): Consciousness, Reflexivity, and Disorders of Consciousness



About the theme
          
       When I taste a glass of wine, there is a sense in which the phenomenal character of the taste of the wine is for me, rather than for you. This for-me-ness can be construed as the relation between some phenomenal character and the subject of consciousness. Moreover, the “me” in for-me-ness refers to the subject of consciousness, whatever it turns out to be. Several philosophers argue that for-me-ness is constitutive of the phenomenological structure of consciousness, i.e., to explain the phenomenological structure of consciousness, one must at least appeal to for-me-ness.
      Among those who defend the above position, one prominent group of philosophers defends Higher-Order Thought (HOT) theories of consciousness, including David Rosenthal and Peter Carruthers who employ different notions of HOT to explain for-me-ness. Arguably, both of them commit to the claim that for-me-ness realizes the interpretation function when it comes to constituting the phenomenological structure of consciousness in contrast to the speaker's proposal—Perspectival-Reflexive Representationalism.

*adapted from the abstract written by K.Yan, which you could find the original content provided in the reading material below.     

Monday, October 28, 2013

心哲所2013秋季系列演講(No.5):預設與推理


關於主題

在給定的語境中表述的語句,無論是進行陳述、提出問題,還是發出命令、做出請求,總是假定了一些前提條件或背景知識,這些前提條件或背景知識就是這一語境中語句的預設。預設會涉及特定語境(現實世界或可能世界中)的諸多對象和事物情況,包括個體、類、事實或事態等,只有明確了解語境和預設,才能確定語句的真假及意義。在推理研究中,完成一次推理所用的全部前題可視為這一推理的預設。日常推理往往是省略的推理,有些預設前提並未明確給出,在這種情況下,對預設作全面的分析尤為重要。

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

心哲所2013秋季系列演講(四):Visual processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli

日期:2013/10/25 () 14:00-16:00
講者:Alan PegnaUniversity of Geneva
講題:Visual processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli
地點:陽明大學人社中心202會議教室

*交通方式:請至石牌捷運站一號出口斜對面(大學眼鏡行前)搭陽明大學校車(二十分鐘一班),搭至「實驗大樓站」,下車後步行約五分鐘,經過第一教學大樓至人社中心(全家商店附近)

Wednesday, October 02, 2013