"Workshop: ""Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas""";"Claudia Welz (clw@hum.ku.dk) and Karl Verstrynge (Karl.Verstrynge@vub.ac.be)";"2007-02-08";"14:00";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 140-142, CFS, building 25, 5th floor, room 25-5-11.";"February 8-10, 2007Title: “Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas” Sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (CFS). Organizers: Claudia Welz (clw@hum.ku.dk) and Karl Verstrynge (Karl.Verstrynge@vub.ac.be) ";"February 8-10, 2007Title: “Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas” Thursday, February 8 14.00 Welcome 14.10-14.30 Karl Verstrynge (University of Brussels): Introduction to the Theme 14.30-15.30 Pia Søltoft (University of Copenhagen): The Other – Master or Match? On Ethics and Love in Levinas and Kierkegaard 15.30-16.00 Coffee break 16.00-16.30 Thomas G. Casey (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome): Retrieving Eros: Beyond Levinas’ Fragile Subject and Kierkegaard’s Religious Subject 16.30-17.00 Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida, Orlando): Looking for the Common Watermark: Loving Others in Kierkegaard and Levinas 17.00-17.30 Coffee break 17.30-18.00 Stine Holte (University of Oslo): Asymmetry and Testimony in Levinas 18.00-18.30 Eric Sean Nelson (University of Massachusetts): Kierkegaard, Levinas, and the Possibility of an Asymmetrical Ethics Friday, February 9 9.00-10.00 Rudi Visker (University of Leuven): In Praise of Visibility 10.00-11.00 Claudia Welz (University of Copenhagen): Conscious of Conscience? The Invisible Mirror of the Self-Other-Relation 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.00 Magnus Moar (University of Sussex): The Formative Role of the Infinite upon Ethical Subjectivity 12.00-12.30 Michael Barber (St. Louis University): Levinas’ Providentially Powerful Self 12.30-14.00 Lunch break 14.00-14.30 Irina Poleshchuk (University of Helsinki): The Ethical Subject within Levinas’ Concept of Language 14.30-15.00 Ákos Krassóy (Universities of Budapest & Leuven): Aesthetics and Ethical Consciousness 15.00-15.15 Break 15.15-15.45 Stephen Minister (Fordham University): The Absolute Made Relevant: The Possibility of Social Engagement in Kierkegaard and Levinas Saturday, February 10 9.00-10.00 Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): Subjectivity, Interiority and Exteriority in Kierkegaard and Levinas 10.00-10.30 Anne Charlotte Hjorth (University of Århus): Becoming Oneself in Being for the Other. On the Relation between Sensation and Subjectivity in Levinas and Løgstrup 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-11.30 Evrim Emir (Bilkent University, Ankara): Who is the Other? 11.30-12.00 Velga Vevere (University of Latvia, Riga): To be the Other: Techniques of Alienation in Kierkegaard and Levinas 12.00-12.30 Plenary discussion and closing remarks Sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (CFS). Organizers: Claudia Welz (clw@hum.ku.dk) and Karl Verstrynge (Karl.Verstrynge@vub.ac.be)"
"Forsvar af PhD Afhandling";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-02-09";"13:00";"";"";"Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Lokale 23.0.50, KUA";"Louisa Käll, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab og Center for Subjektivitetsforskning, Københavns Universitet. Titel: ""Expressive Selfhood""";"Louisa Käll, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab og Center for Subjektivitetsforskning, Københavns Universitet. Titel: ""Expressive Selfhood"" Bedømmelsesudvalget: Lektor Jakob Rendtorff (formand), Roskilde Universitetscenter, Lektor Robin May Schott, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet og Professor Rudolf Bernet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Leder af forsvarshandlingen: Lektor Peter Duelund, Københavns Universitet. Et antal eksemplarer af afhandlingen er fremlagt til gennemsyn og hjemlån i Det Kgl. Biblioteks information på Københavns Universitet Amager og til gennemsyn på Det Kgl. Biblioteks læsesal Øst, Diamanten samt på Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Njalsgade 80, 2300 København S."
"Raffaele Rodogno: ""Self-conscious Emotions.""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-02-19";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Lecture by Raffaele Rodogno, Département de Philosophie, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. Title: ""Self-conscious Emotions."" "
"Alva Noë: ""Novel experiences""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-03-16";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Lecture by Alva Noë, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, USA. "
"Giovanna Colombetti: ""Reintegrating the affective self""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-03-22";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Lecture by Giovanna Colombetti, Cognitive Science Laboratory, University of Trento, Italy. "
"5th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-04-20";"";"";"";"";"April 20-22, 2007 Conference Title: ""Self and Other"" 5. Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology ";""
"Official launch of the Center's new 5-year period of funding";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-04-26";"13:00";"";"";"Auditorie 23.0.50";"Efterfølgende vil Center for Subjektivitetsforskning være vært for en reception.";" 13.00-13.10: Kirsten Refsing, Dekan ved det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet 13.10-13.20: Thomas Sinkjær, Direktør for Danmarks Grundforskningsfond 13.20-14.00: Præsentation af Center for Subjektivitetsforsknings nye forskningsprogram ""The Self: An integrative model"" ved centerleder Dan Zahavi 14.00-15.00: ""Mind states in development and the self in infancy"". Åbningsforelæsning af Prof. Philippe Rochat , Department of Psychology, Emory University , Atlanta, USA. "
"Katalin Farkas: ""Subjective Indiscriminability"" and Tim Crane: ""Singular Thought and Non-existent Objects""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-04-30";"14.15-16.30";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Lecture by Katalin Farkas, Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Lecture by Tim Crane, Department of Philosophy, University College London, UK. "
"Michael Blamauer: ""Schizophrenia, Language and the Self""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-05-03";"15.00-16.30";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Lecture by Michael Blamauer, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Austria. "
"Discussion with Daniel Dennett";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-05-09";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"";" Informal discussion with Daniel Dennett, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, USA. "
"Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity and Self-representation";"Andreas Roepstorff, University of Aarhus; Josh Skewes, University of Aarhus; Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen";"2007-05-09";"";"";"";"Comwell, Borupgaard, Denmark";" May 9-12, 2007 First BASIC Workshop - part of the ESF-EUROCORES programme CNCC. Organisers: Andreas Roepstorff, University of Aarhus; Josh Skewes, University of Aarhus; Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen ";" First BASIC Workshop: Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity and Self-representation - part of the ESF-EUROCORES programme CNCC. Denmark, May 9-12, 2007 Programme Session I: Thoughts Albert Newen: A Theoretical Framework to Investigate Self-consciousness and intersubjectivity Dan Zahavi: Consciousness, Self-consciousness, and the Sense of Self Session II: Brains Avi Snyder: A Default Mode of Brain Function: History of an Evolving Idea Chris Frith: Imaging Intersubjectivity Kai Vogeley: Gaze Behavior and Social Cognition Session III: Consciousness Phillip Robbins: The Genuine Problem Hakwan Lau: A Higher-Order Bayesian Decision Theory of Consciousness Hans Lou: Dopamine Release and Conscious Experience Session IV: Contexts Steve Fiore: Adding an Understanding of Teams to Better Understand Social Neuroscience Session V: Self and Subjectivity Manos Tsakiris: The Bodily Self: From Body-perception to Body-ownership Marc Jeannerod: Self-Recognition Andreas Roepstorff: Mapping Subjectivity Concluding Discussion Organisers: Andreas Roepstorff, University of Aarhus; Josh Skewes, University of Aarhus; Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen Acknowledgements This event is part of the European Science Foundation EUROCORES Programme CNCC. It is supported by funds from Danish Research Council for Communication and Culture and from the EC Sixth Framework Programme under Contract no. ERAS-CT-2003-980409. "
"Concepts - Content and Constitution";"";"2007-05-11";"";"";"";"";"";"May 11-12 Conference title: Concepts - Content and Constitution Speakers include Gärdenfors, Bermúdez, Ashby, Prinz, Millikan and Dennett. Organized by the Danish Society for Philosophy and Psychology in collaboration with the Center for Subjectivity Research. "
"Anthony Rudd: ""'Expression, Narrative and Selfhood""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-08-21";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Anthony Rudd, Department of Philosophy, St. Olaf's College, Northfield, USA. ";" Lecture by Anthony Rudd, Department of Philosophy, St. Olaf's College, Northfield, USA. Anthony Rudd is the author of Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993) and Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein and Heidegger (2003). He is currently working on a book on Personal Identity. In this paper he argues that, although the Self cannot be defined in terms of a prior notion of narrative, a narrative understanding of the Self needs to be part of a robustly non-reductive account of Selfhood. In this context he discusses critical assessments of narrative theory by Ricoeur and Zahavi. "
"Manos Tsakiris: ""On Agency and Body-ownership""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-10-25";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, UK ";" Lecture by Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Manos Tsakiris studied psychology in Athens, Greece . He then moved to London for postgraduate studies in philosophy and cognitive neuropsychology. He did his PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience , University College London with Patrick Haggard and Chris Frith. His research attempts to explain the neurocognitive principles that underlie the experience of one's body in action and sensation. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London Abstract: The recent distinction between sense of agency and sense of body-ownership has attracted considerable empirical and theoretical interest. The respective contributions of central motor signals and peripheral afferent signals to these two varieties of body experience remain unknown. I will consider the methodological problems encountered in the empirical study of agency and body-ownership, and then present a series of experiments that study the interplay between motor and sensory information. In particular, the experiments presented will focus on (i) how multisensory signals interact with body representations to generate the sense of body-ownership, (ii) how the sense of agency modulates the sense of body-ownership, and (iii) on the respective roles of efferent and afferent signals for self-recognition. The complex relations between agency and body-ownership will be considered in the light of recent neurophilosophical approaches. "
"James Hart: ""The Uniqueness of the I""";"CFS";"2007-11-19";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by James Hart, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA ";" Lecture by James G. Hart, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He has taught philosophy of religion and phenomenology since 1972. He is currently working on ""Who One Is,"" a work on transcendental and existential phenomenology. Abstract: Because ""I"" and ""you"" are non-ascriptive references and because what we mean by ""self"" can be construed to be a non-sortal referent, we propose that with ""selves"" there is a ""singularity"" and an individuation ""per se"" and not ""per accidens."" ""Persons"" are a different story. "
"Evan Thompson: ""Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness""";"CFS";"2007-11-27";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Evan Thompson, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ";""
"Conference ""Unity and Self""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2007-11-29";"";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, auditorium 23-0-50, Njalsgade 120 (building 23, ground floor.)";"Does the self exist? One classical argument in favor of the reality of the self is that we need a self in order to account for the unity of the stream of consciousness and the world of experience. The aim of the conference will be to appraise the possible strengths or weaknesses of this argument. Is there really unity to be found in the first place, and if so, is it really conditioned by the self?";"November 29 – 30, 2007 in Copenhagen Conference Does the self exist? One classical argument in favor of the reality of the self is that we need a self in order to account for the unity of the stream of consciousness and the world of experience. The aim of the conference will be to appraise the possible strengths or weaknesses of this argument. Is there really unity to be found in the first place, and if so, is it really conditioned by the self? Location: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, Copenhagen S / Building 23, ground floor, Auditorium 50 (room number 23-0-50). See campus area here: MapParticipation is free, but prior registration is required: Please register before Monday, November 19, by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dkOrganized by Dan Zahavi. Programme Thursday, November 29 09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction 09:15-10:30 Evan Thompson (University of Toronto): ""Brain in a vat or body in a world: On the biological requirements of self"" 10:30-11:45 Philippe Rochat (Emory University): ""Unity and self at birth"" 11:45-13:00 Lunch break 13:00-14:15 Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): ""Unity of Consciousness and the Problem of the Self"" 14:15-14:45 Coffee break 14:45-16:00 Tim Bayne (Oxford University): ""Consciousness, the self, and the split-brain syndrome"" Friday, November 30 Organized by Dan Zahavi .Location: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, Copenhagen S / Building 23, ground floor, Auditorium 50 (room number 23-0-50). See campus area here: MapPrior registration required: Please register before Monday, November 19, by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dkParticipation is free of charge. 09.30-10.45 Louis Sass (Rutgers University) ""Gurwitsch, Schizophrenia and the Field of Consciousness"" 10.45-12.00 Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool): ""From Unity to Selfhood"" 12.00-13:30 Lunch break 13.30-14.45 Galen Strawson (University of Reading & CUNY): ""Subject as objects"" 14.45-15.15 Coffee break "
"Workshop with Chris Frith & Uta Frith";"";"2007-12-13";"13.15-16.00";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Udvalgsværelse 3";"Workshop with Chris Frith (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London & Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus) and Uta Frith (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London & Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus).";"Speakers: Chris Frith (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London & Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus): ""What is special about social signals used in communication?"" We use a whole range of social signals, such as facial expressions and eye gaze direction, to learn about the world from other people. However, many of these signals are processed automatically and often without awareness on the part of either sender or receiver. I shall suggest that signals become communicative when we have the meta-cognitive awareness that they are signals. One example would be the ostensive signals that indicate that communication is about to occur. The price we pay for this special attitude to signals, is that we can perceive signals when none are intended. Such mis-attribution is typical of schizophrenia. Uta Frith (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London & Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus): ""Can we distinguish awareness of feelings and awareness of having feelings? Lessons from autism."" Many individuals with autism spectrum disorder say that they are confused about their own feelings. The difficulty in identifying and describing one’s own feelings has been labelled ‘alexithymia’, and can be assessed with self-report questionnaires. Three questions can be asked: Do people with autism who have alexithymia simply not have strong emotions? Are they not aware of their emotions? Or, are they not aware of having emotions? A questionnaire study and a functional imaging study investigated this question. The results suggest that it is possible to separate three levels of emotional experience, having feelings, being aware of feelings and being aware of having feelings. People with autism are less aware of having a self that has feelings. This finding strengthens the idea that autism can mean both no self and too much self. Participation is free, but prior registration is required."