University of Barcelona, November 16^th and 17^th

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’