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Category Archives: Ratna Ling Consciousness Conferences
James van Pelt- Q&A for March 2007 First-Person Inquiry Conference at Ratna Ling
1. What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference? For many years I’ve privately studied the nature of experience as it emerges from the roots of being into the physical domain via … Continue reading
Susan Stuart
Susan Stuart is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, who sometimes she finds herself thinking: “If only I could focus, but too much is exciting.” Her research interests include establishing the preconditions for consciousness in … Continue reading
Steve Torrance
Steve studied philosophy at Sussex and Oxford in the 1960s and early 1970s. His doctoral thesis was on ethics. He became interested in philosophical questions concerning non-human and artificial minds, in particular on their ethical status. This led to a … Continue reading
Steve Torrance
What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference? My main interest in this workshop concerns the relation between conceptions of consciousness and conceptions of ethics. How do the two interrelate? Can we … Continue reading
Building toward the Conference
I’ve been reading through the statements of main interests, and getting progressively more excited. It seems we have people doing interesting work from a variety of perspectives, and I am sure that our interactions are going to be very interesting. … Continue reading
Walt Anderson
Statement from Walt Anderson (Excerpt from work in progress) The human species is migrating out of a past in which people regarded the conditions of life as ordained by forces beyond them (nature, tradition, gods) into a present in which … Continue reading
Walter Truett Anderson, Ph.D
Walter Truett Anderson, Ph.D., is a political scientist, futurist, journalist and author of 17 books on a wide range of subjects including political and cultural change, technology and the environment. His most recent books are The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East … Continue reading
Claire Petitmengin – First-Person Consciousness Conference
I would like to share with the conference participants and discuss with them what I learned, what I discovered, what surprised me the most since I began to study lived experience concretely, with specific first and second person methods. I … Continue reading
Claire Petitmengin, PHD
After first studying classical and Indian philosophy at University, Claire Petitmengin worked as a consultant in information system design for ten years. She then returned to academic life and began a thesis with Francisco Varela as research advisor (, L’Harmattan, … Continue reading
How embodied is cognition?
Wendell Wallach Ratna Ling 2007 Since 1967 I’ve been probing whether introspective work, meditation, or contemplation can be approached with some degree of scientific rigor. This kind of inquiry, as most of you will know, is an apparently never-ending confrontation … Continue reading