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Category Archives: Ratna Ling Consciousness Conferences
Max Velmans
Max Velmans is currently Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Professor of Consciousness Studies at the University of Plymouth. He has around 90 publications on consciousness including Understanding Consciousness (2000), which was short listed for the British … Continue reading
2008 Conference Presentations
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Consciousness Conference for 2008 – 2008 First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness
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Is first-person investigation intrinsically value laden?
Following Steve’s contribution, I find myself wondering whether first-person investigation is intrinsically value-laden. Human experience cannot be emotion-free. This seems to me to have been in the background of a number of contributions to the meeting – I think of … Continue reading
Ratna Ling 2007 First-person Consciousness Conference
Listen to streaming audio of talks given during the retreat. Click on the forward arrow to simply play that streaming audio file. If you click the text portion of the link, you will initiate a download of that mp3 sound … Continue reading
Radical Objectivity
Russ’ fragment on DES and ‘radical objectivity’ is attached Radically-objective fragment
Pradeep Mutalik
I’m a clinical research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine. I am keenly interested in the neurological and cognitive basis of human consciousness, in evolutionary biology and in mysticism. I am on the editorial board of “Science and Consciousness … Continue reading
It’s all First Person: Where does the Third Person come from?
As Velmans has reminded us, all our science, like the rest of our mental worlds, is based on first person experience. The enormous conceptual success of science tends to obscure this fundamental fact: that for every one of us, all … Continue reading
Why, oh why? Susan Stuart
What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference? The centre of, at least, some inquiries into consciousness is a human being, a natural organism with the capacity to feel, to perceive, and … Continue reading
James van Pelt
Yale Divinity School Initiative in Religion, Science and Technology I’m the program coordinator for Yale’s nascent initiative exploring the interface between religion, science I also serve as educational technology advisor to many of the public school districts in Connecticut. In … Continue reading