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LISBON MIND & REASONING GROUP


Events
​Mind Selves and Technology

Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology in Lisbon, 2016
Featuring the work of Susan Schneider

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Conference Location

​Av. de Berna, 26 - 4th Floor (Sala Multiuso 2 & 3)

1069-061 Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Phone: +351 217 9083 00 - Ext.1527
Map 
http://www.ifilnova.pt/forms/contact-us
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Dates:
  • Conference Dates: 23rd & 24th of June 
  • Programme
  • Social dinner 24th June
  • 1st CFP: 23rd February 2016
  • Submission by: 23rd March 2016
  • Acceptance decisions: 6th April 2016

Registration
From 15 may: 75 euro
After 10 June: 115 euro

To secure your registration, please make a bank transfer to:

Bank Account: FCSHUNL – Unidade de Investigação
IBAN: PT5007810112 00000006399 80
BIC: IGCPPTPL
Subject/Tranfer Description: Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology


and send the bank receipt to hipolito.ines@gmail.com
 

Featured Speaker: 
​Susan Schneider
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Confirmed Guest Speakers: 
 Gerald Vision, Gualtiero Piccinini, Keith Frankish, Mark Bickhard, Ron Chrisley

Draft Schedule for Mind, Selves and 21st Century Technology

This workshop seeks to explore a deepening engagement between philosophy of mind, metaphysics and futuristic and emerging technologies such as superintelligence, AGI, machine consciousness and radical cognitive enhancements, such as brain chips and uploading.

Futuristic brain enhancements and AI are widely commented on, but without general appreciation of the philosophical implications. For example, are radical cognitive enhancements even compatible with survival, according to various theories of personal identity? Or, is the notion that the mind is a program, which often guides public and philosophical discussions, metaphysically well-founded?

We have a tendency to see the mind in terms of whatever is the latest technology. The computational model of mind has certainly been one of the most influential and is currently undergoing important challenges and challenging reinventions (e.g., Schneider, 2011). Whether or not you think our minds are actually computational, our abilities to interface with machines from virtual reality technologies such as Oculus Rift, to our more everyday use of smart-phones and wearable gadgetry, is undergoing a profound shift. We seek the motivate the serious philosophical analysis of these changes and assess their implications.

The cognitive environment of human beings is increasingly saturated with 'smart' artefacts. The ubiquitous and mobile internet amounts to a radically new epistemic and cognitive environment which we already inhabit (Clowes, 2015). The effects of technology may be rapidly reshaping the human cognitive profile. Some see this latest trend as deeply worrying (Carr, 2010; Turkle, 2011). Others see the relationship as a more a continuum with our cognitive evolution (Clark, 2003).

This meetings aims to analyse these developments and ask what are their significance for philosophical thought about mind, identity and human futures.

Abstracts of up to 1000 words are invited on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
  • The intersections of the philosophy of mind, applied ethics, philosophy of technology, & cognitive science.
  • Cognitive enhancement, cognitive diminishment, e.g., drugs, implants, wearable & ambient technologies, and how to value these. 
  • Artificial Consciousness (Is it possible? How to detect it? Ethical Concerns?)
  • Artificial Intelligence (e.g., the safe development of AGI and superintelligence).
  • Is computationalism still the best framework to think about these issues? 
  • The effects of technology on human Agency (extended agency through extended mind, ethics and metaphysics of cognitive enhancement.
  • Web, Internet and Cloud technologies, big data and their cognitive, epistemic and ethical implications.
  • The extended mind, the embodied mind, the hybrid mind & the situated mind.
  • Virtuality as model of self, mind and mind extension.
Submissions may be made via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ms21t
Conference registration will be 75 Euros which will include tea, coffee and conference dinner.
We intend to produce a collected volume or journal special issue based upon contributions to the conference.
 
Programme Committee​:
Danil Razeev, St. Petersburg State University, Department of Philosophy
Dina Mendonça, IFILNOVA, FCSH, New University of Lisbon

Klaus Gaertner, CFCUL, University of Lisbon
Inês Hipolito, University of Lisbon
João Fonseca, IFILNOVA, FCSH, New University of Lisbon
Jorge Gonçalves, IFILNOVA, FCSH, New University of Lisbon
Marek McGann, University of Limerick, Dept. of Psychology, MIC, Ireland
Maria Sekatskaya, St. Petersburg State University, Department of Philosophy
Marcin Milkowski,  Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Mike Beaton, University of the Basque Country.
Paul Smart, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton
Richard Heersmink, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney
Ron Chrisley, COGS, Department of Information, University of Sussex
Robert Clowes, IFILNOVA, FCSH, New University of Lisbon
Sofia Minguens, MLAG, University of Porto


Organising Committee: Robert W. Clowes, Klaus Gaertner & Inês Hipolíto
 (Lisbon Mind & Cognition Group, ArgLab, Universidad Nova de Lisboa).

A meeting sponsored by the Mind & Cognition Group (Part of the ARGLAB at IFILNOVA), New University of Lisbon and Fundação Luso-Americana.


References:
  • Schneider & Mandik (forthcoming). How philosophy of mind can shape the future.
  • Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy (link to: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Philosophy-Travel-Superintelligence/dp/1118922611/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452715429&sr=1-5&keywords=susan+schneider
  • Bostrom, Superintelligence)
  • Carr, N. (2010). The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember. London: Atlantic Books.
  • Clark, A. (2003). Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Clowes, R. W. (2015). Thinking in the cloud: The Cognitive Incorporation of Cloud-Based Technology. Philosophy and Technology, 28, Issue 2, (2), 261-296.  Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13347-014-0153-z#page-1
  • Schneider, S. (2011). The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction: Mit Press.
  • Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books.

Some Interesting links to recent interviews with Susan Schneider:/programme-for-minds-selves-and-technology-2016.html
  • Interview with 3AM Magazine.
  • Live talk show episode on Schneider's work

Find some suggestions for accommodation here.

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    • Paul Smart
    • Diana Soeiro
  • Research & Projects
    • Self and Consciousness
    • Cognitive Science and Technology
    • Philosophy of Psychiatry & Mental Illness
  • Mind & Cognition Seminar
  • Events
    • Workshop Cognitive, Epistemic and Ethical Dimensions of the Internet 2015
    • Philosophy and Schizophrenia 2017
    • Seminar Louis Sass 2016
    • Workshop with Philip Gerrans 2016
    • Mind Selves and Technology 2016 >
      • Programme for Minds, Selves and Technology 2016
    • Workshop Perspectivas sobre a Esquizofrenia 2016
    • Arguing With Dan Hutto the Workshop 2015 >
      • Abstracts for Arguing with Dan Hutto 2015
    • European Workshop on the Cognitive Implications of the Internet 2015
    • Thinking About Enculturation
  • Publications
    • Schizophrenia and Common Sense - Book
    • Mind-Technology Problem CFP
  • Blog
  • Contacts
  • New Page
  • The Mechanistic Approach in Biology and Cognition