Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Consciousness, Agency and First-person Representation

University of Barcelona, November 16th and 17th

 

The project “Awareness, self-awareness and unawareness: Exploring the perception-cognition-action continuum” (PGC2018-095909-B-I00; PI: Josefa Toribio) will host a two-day online workshop, November 16th and November 17th. The aim of the workshop is to generate fruitful discussion on the relation between consciousness, agency and first-person representation or perspective. Interesting questions that we intend to address include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Do we need to appeal to first-person representations to understand consciousness? Is consciousness required to have a first-person representation?
  • Can we make sense of the distinction between action and mere movements without appealing to first-person representations?
  • Does agency ground first-person representation?
  • Do we need consciousness to understand what an agent or first-person representation is?
  • There are some processes or capacities, like arguably perception, that we attribute to the individual (personal) rather than to any of its parts (subpersonal). Can we make sense of the personal/subpersonal distinction by appeal to first-person representations or by appeal to action (and, if so, of what kind)?

 

 

 

16 Nov

 

15:00 Presentation: Pepa Toribio and Miguel Ángel Sebastián

 

15:10-15:50 Carlota Serrahima: ‘Sensory fields: the visual and the bodily’

15:50-16:30 Raphaël Millière: ‘Spatial Content and Self-Representation in Perception’

 

16:30-16:35 - Break

 

16:35-17:30 Wayne Wu: ‘Intending as Practical Remembering?’

 

17:30-17:40 - Break

 

17:40-18:20 Myrto Mylopoulos: Unconscious Perception and the Problem of Attribution

18:20-19:00 Maik Oswald Niemeck: The subjective character and mental relations

 

Break 19:00-19:10 

 

19:10-20:05 Denis Buehler: ‘A Capacity to Guide’

 

17 Nov

 

15:30-16:10 Gabriele Ferretti: ‘Visuomotor Consciousness’

16:10-16:50 Marta Jorba and Tom McClelland: ‘Perceptual Motivation for Action’

 

16:50-16:55 – Break

 

16:55-17:50 Léa Salje: Losing Oneself and Making Oneself

 

17:50-18:00 - Break

 

18:00-18:40 Aaron Henry: Consciousness, Agency, and the Sense of Ownership of Action

 

18:40-18:45 - Break

 

18:45-19:40 Krisztina Orbán & Hong Yu Wong: On the possibility of naturalising the first person