Consciousness and Time
1-3 April 2008, Edinburgh
Organisers: Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh), Bruno Mölder (Tartu),
Valterri Arstila (Turku)
Are our conscious experiences discrete snapshots separated by gaps too
short for us to perceive, much as in a movie we do not notice the gaps
between frames? Or should we rather think of conscious experience as
temporally extended allowing us to experience what William James
called "the specious present"? What kinds of neural and computational
mechanisms might underlie conscious experience through and over time?
This workshop will bring together leading experts from philosophy,
cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology to discuss these
and other questions concerning the temporal nature of consciousness.
Invited Speakers:
Axel Cleeremans (Bruxelles), Barry Dainton (Liverpool), Shaun Gallagher
(Florida/Herts), Tony Marcel (Herts/Cambridge), Evan Thompson (Toronto),
Kai Vogeley (Köln)
The clock's time, the brain's time and the mind's time
16-18 October 2008, München
Organisers: Agnieszka Wykowska (München), Christine Falter (Oxford),
Niko Busch (Toulouse)
The second workshop in this series will address the relation between
events happening in physical time, our perception of the timing of these
events, and the question of how our perception maps onto the timing of
brain activity. Philosophical theories and neuroscientific findings will be
scrutinized to explore questions such as 'Why does it take time for our
brain to make us conscious of a stimulus?' and 'How does neural asynchrony
of feature processing translate into conscious synchrony of these
features?'
Invited Speakers:
David Eagleman, Rick Grush, Dan Lloyd, Konstantinos Moutoussis, Viviane
Pouthas, Vincent Walsh, John Wearden
Intra- and interpersonal differences in the experience of time
June 2009, Turku
Organisers: Valdas Noreika (Turku), Valtteri Arstila (Turku), Cordula Becker (Bochum)