Workshop on Self, Perception and Consciousness

organised by Consciousness Research Group, Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU.

Date: Mon, Dec.23, 2013, 0900-1700
Venue: Rm242, the Second Teaching Complex Building, NYMU

Key Speaker:
Steven Gross (Dept. of Phil., Johns Hopkins University)

Invited Speaker:
Allen Houng (Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU) 
Wen-Fang Wang (Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU) 
Kai-Yuan Cheng (Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU) 
Aleksangra Mroczko-Wasowizc (Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU) 
Karen Yan (Inst. of Phil. of Mind and Cognition, NYMU) 

For more details, please visit: http://crg-tw.blogspot.tw/.

心哲所2013秋季系列演講(No.8)：知覺與自我意識-由佛教知識論的觀點出發

關於主題

佛教哲學如何探討認知(cognition)？於認知過程中，認知對象與認知之間、感官識與意識之間的關係為何？以及認知對象、感官識、意識認知與其他心靈現象等，在認知過程中有著怎麼樣的先後關係？認知是否必然蘊含自我意識(self-awareness)？本演講將盡可能闡釋佛教哲學不同部派(說一起有部、經量部)與陳那(दिन्नाग, Dignāga)關於以上課題的主張及彼此間的辯論與繼承，期待能藉此與當代哲學作出有意義的對比。

心哲所2013秋季系列演講(No.7)：自殺的原因和預防

關於主題

為什麼有人要自殺？自殺可以預防嗎？
關於自殺，大家通常會有三大迷思：
1. 自殺是遭遇重大挫折的人，一時想不開而走上自我毀滅之路。失戀、失業、久病厭世、考試失敗......就會讓一個人自殺。
2. 自殺未遂的人只要加以開導，就不會再輕生。
3. 決心要輕生的人不會透露給別人知道，所以防不勝防。
是否真是如此？且讓我們一起來探討！

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.     

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。