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)。

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

• Brian Butterworth, University College London, UK
• Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA
• Claudia Maienborn, Tuebingen University, Germany
• Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada

Invited Symposia

• "Decision Making" (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University Berlin)
• "Complex Cognition" (Ute Schmid, Universität Bamberg)
• "Information Structure" (Gisbert Fanselow, Stavros Skopeteas, DFG SFB 632, Information Structure, Potsdam University)
• "New Theories of Rationality" (Markus Knauff, Giessen University; Wolfgang Spohn, University of Konstanz)
• "Symbolizing Emotions" (Languages of Emotion Cluster of Excellence at Free University of Berlin)
• Doctoral Symposium (Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University)

Associated Events

• Satellite conference of the DFG Research Group FOR 868: "Mind and Brain Dynamics"
  (Reinhold Kliegl, Ralf Engbert, Potsdam University)
• Satellite Workshop: "Cognitive Anthropology"
  (Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller, Freiburg University)

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)

'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

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”