Seminar on Mind & Language

Spring 2010

2^nd floor Seminar Room

4:00 PM-7:00 PM

The Seminar on Mind and Language will be conducted by Ned Block and Jesse Prinz. Each week there will be a visitor who will respond to questions but who will not give a presentation. Those who attend the Seminar are expected to read the paper for that week in advance. A preparation session, restricted to students, will meet on Mondays from 5PM to 6PM. Papers to be discussed will be posted to this web site one week in advance.

Schedule of Visitors

January 19	Ned Block NYU	“Attention and Mental Paint”
January 26	Uriah Kriegel University of Arizona	“The Experiential Origins of Intentionality” (Chapter One of "The Sources of Intentionality") Background Reading: · Table of Contents for Sources of Intentionality · Introduction to Sources of Intentionality · Bibliography
February 2	Frédérique de Vignemont CNRS / NYU	“What is it like to feel your pain?” (co-authored with Pierre Jacob) Accessible only with a password mentioned in class. If you are attending the class but don’t have the password, email Jon Simon, jonathan.simon@nyu.edu
February 9	Christopher Peacocke Columbia University	"Subjects, Consciousness and Perceptual Content” Accessible only with a password mentioned in class. If you are attending the class but don’t have the password, email Jon Simon, jonathan.simon@nyu.edu
February 16	Michael Tye University of Texas, Austin	“Attention, Seeing and Change Blindness” Accessible only with a password mentioned in class. If you are attending the class but don’t have the password, email Jon Simon, jonathan.simon@nyu.edu
February 23	Jesse Prinz CUNY	Is Attention Necessary and Sufficient for Consciousness? Supplementary Note 1: Inattentional Amnesia Supplementary Note 2: Neural Correlates of Attention
March 2	Farid Masrour NYU	“The Geometry of Visual Space and the Nature of Visual Experience” First draft—please do not circulate
March 9	David Rosenthal CUNY	“Sensory Qualities, Consciousness and Perception” If you are in a hurry, section 6 can be skipped. Accessible only with a password. If you are attending the class but don’t have the password, email Jon Simon, jonathan.simon@nyu.edu Background Reading: “Explaining Consciousness”
March 23	Susanna Siegel Harvard University	“When are Cognitive Penetrators Undercutters?” Background reading: “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification”
March 30	Alex Byrne MIT	“Knowing What I See” Accessible only with a password mentioned in class. Background Readings: Introspection, http://mit.edu/abyrne/www/introspection.pdf Knowing that I am thinking, http://mit.edu/abyrne/www/knowingthatIamthinking.pdf
April 6	Imogen Dickie University of Toronto / NYU	"Visual Attention Fixes Demonstrative Reference by Eliminating Referential Luck"
April 13	Alvin Goldman & Karen Shanton Rutgers University	Alvin Goldman & Karen Shanton, "The Case for Simulation Theory” Alvin Goldman, “Appendix: Can Unconscious States be Introspected” (The Appendix is in the same file as the paper.)
April 20	David Chalmers ANU / NYU	The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis
April 27	Tyler Burge UCLA	Propositional Attitudes and Reason Accessible only with a password mentioned in class
May 4	Alva Noe UC Berkeley	Cancelled. No class on May 4th

Past Seminars on Mind & Language:

March 9

March 23

March 30

April 13

April 20

April 27