CFS Spring School: "Empathy, Direct Perception and Other Minds"
Empathy, Direct Perception and Other Minds
In recent years, many philosophers and psychologists have formulated and defended versions of a thesis known as the ‘direct social perception’ (DSP) thesis or the ‘basic empathy’ (BE) thesis. All versions of this view maintain that we can have a direct, perceptual or perception-like awareness of some mental states and episodes of others. Even though the view has attracted much attention, several questions remain open. For example, it is not clear to what extent the BE/DSP view presents a fundamental alternative to traditional ‘theory-of-mind’ approaches. Furthermore, it is unclear what the range of DSP/BE is: for example can we only directly perceive others’ basic emotions, say, or do we also have perceptual access to some of their cognitive states? Similarly, it is still debated to what extent the DSP/BE view is empirically and conceptually well-founded. The spring school aims to explore these and related questions.
Participation by invitation only.
Keynote Speakers
Cristina Becchio (Psychology, University of Turin)
Dan Zahavi (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen)
Søren Overgaard (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen)
Preliminary programme
Wednesday March 29, 2017
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09:00-10:30 |
Keynote Lecture by Dan Zahavi (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
William C. Hornett (University of Sheffield) Knowing and Being Known by Others |
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12:00-13:00 |
Aoife McInerney (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) Broadening our Minds: Arendt’s Phenomenological Critique of Empathy |
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13:00‐14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00‐15:00 |
Philipp Schmidt (University of Vienna) Being Understood by Others and the Genesis of Empathy |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-16:30 |
Francesca Forlé & Sarah Songhorian (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) |
Thursday March 30, 2017
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09:00-10:00 |
Alejandro Arango (Tennessee State University) |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-11:30 |
Petra Nyman-Salonen (University of Jyväskylä) Embodied Dialogue: Bodily Mirroring as a Form of Direct Perception |
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11:30-12:30 |
Janna van Grunsven (Fordham University) Varieties of Empathy and the Neurodiversity Movement |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
Keynote Lecture by Cristina Becchio (Psychology, University of Turin) Seeing Mental States: An Experimental Strategy for Measuring the Observability of Others' Intentions. |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-16:30 |
Thomas Szanto (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen) Social Identity and Social Perception Biases |
Friday March 31, 2017
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09:00-10:30 |
Keynote Lecture by Søren Overgaard (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Rami El Ali (Lebanese American University) Dissimulation and Direct Social Perception |
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12:00-13:00 |
Kristoffer Sundberg (University of Oslo) Seeing Mental States through Behaviour |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Jola Feix (University of Oslo) What Is Direct in Direct Social Perception? |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30-16:30 |
Felipe León (Philosophy, CFS Copenhagen) Empathy, Direct Social Perception, and Collective Intentionality |
Organizers
Søren Overgaard (s.overgaard@hum.ku.dk)
Dan Zahavi (zahavi@hum.ku.dk)
Practical organizer
Merete Lynnerup (mly@hum.ku.dk)