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LISBON MIND COGNITION & KNOWLEDGE GROUP

Symposium on The Mind-Technology Problem

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The Mind-Technology Problem  Symposium and Workshop
 
21st and 22nd of October 2021 in Lisbon and online.
 
Keynote Speakers:
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam)
J. Adam Carter (Glasgow)
Manuel Curado (Minho)
Ron Chrisley (Sussex)

Steven Fuller (Warwick)
Vincent Müller (Eindhoven)

A symposium on the Mind-Technology Problem to investigage and discuss themes arising from the recently published Springer volume from their "Studies in Mind and Brain" series: The Mind-Technology Problem: Investigating, Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology.

Draft Programme for the symposium is here
 
Brief Introduction to the Meeting.
            We are living through a new phase in human development where much of everyday life – at least in the most technologically developed parts of the world – has come to depend upon our interaction with “smart” artefacts. Alongside this increasing adoption and ever-deepening reliance on intelligent machines, important changes have been taking place, often in the background, as to how we think of ourselves and how we conceptualize our relationship with technology. As we design, create and learn to live with a new order of artefacts which exhibit behavior that, were it to be carried out by human beings would be seen as intelligent, the ways in which we conceptualize intelligence, minds, reasoning and related notions such as self and agency are undergoing profound shifts. Indeed, it is possible to argue that the basic background assumptions informing, and the underlying conceptual scheme structuring our reasoning about minds has recently been transformed. This shift has changed the nature and quality of both our folk understanding of mind, our scientific psychology, and the philosophical problems that the interaction of these realms produce.
            These new conceptualizations – sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit – about the nature of mind and its relationships to the artefacts we build has given rise to a new constellation of basic philosophical problems about the very nature of mind. This constellation we call, The Mind-Technology Problem. The mind-technology problem should be understood as the successor to the mind-body problem, engaging with the mind in a digital era. Distinctive questions include: What properties of mind may be enabled, transformed or extended by technology? What properties of mind may be diminished, outsourced or curtailed? Is human agency being primarily constrained or enabled by our encounter with 21st Century technology and especially by our interaction with AI? How might the nature of human agency, memory, knowledge, responsibility, and consciousness be changed through this interaction? These can all be viewed as problems of where our minds stop, and our artefacts begin. Deciding the limits of mind seem to recast the nature of the other philosophical problems around it.
 
​Registration here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwagXsNX5oT4PR2-t--7d3aZwaYbYbs0j6Zxvg3SMwN1NhAw/viewform
 
Location: "Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa. & ONLINE". 

Local Organising Committee: 
 
Programme Committee: Gloria Andrada, Robert Clowes, Klau Gaertner, Paul Smart, Nunu Venturinha.
 
 Organization:
 
Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA) and Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL)
 
Organizers: Robert W. Clowes (IFILNOVA) and Klaus Gärtner (CFCUL)
Contacts: robert.clowes@gmail.com and klga@gmx.de
 
All welcome with registration.
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    • Gloria Andrada
    • Robert Clowes
    • Ricardo N. Henriques
    • Florian Franken Figuereido
    • Klaus Gaertner
    • Steven Gouveia
    • Jorge Gonçalves
    • Inês Hipólito
    • Dina Mendonça
    • João Sardo Mourão
    • Paul Smart
    • Nuno Venturinha
    • Robert Vinten
    • Camila Lobo
    • Alberto Oya
  • Research & Projects
    • Self and Consciousness
    • Cognitive Science and Technology
    • Philosophy of Psychiatry & Mental Illness
    • Workshop on Delusion
  • Events
    • The Mind Technology Problem Symposium >
      • TMTP Programme
    • Workshop: Wittgenstein, Religion, and Cognitive Science. December 15th.
    • REC and its Critics >
      • REC and its Critics
    • Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion - 2nd ERB Project Workshop
    • Workshop Cognitive, Epistemic and Ethical Dimensions of the Internet 2015
    • Philosophy and Schizophrenia 2017
    • Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion - 2nd ERB Project Workshop
    • Seminar Louis Sass 2016
    • Workshop with Philip Gerrans 2016
    • Scaling Up the Bayesian Brain
    • The Mechanistic Approach in Biology and Cognition
    • 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
  • Mind & Reasoning RIP Seminar
  • Publications
    • Schizophrenia and Common Sense - Book
    • Mind-Technology Problem CFP
  • Blog
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  • CFP For REC Conference