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 to reflect. These capacities are essential but they are nothing without the organism’s world, its umwelt. It is inconceivable that a third-person science could provide a complete picture of this complex system with its internal phenomenal states, its dynamic intersubjectivity, its capacity for social living and the creation of cultures (and magnificent poetry and music).
So, what inspires me to attend, the opportunity to talk to others interested in these issues but coming at them from different perspectives.
How does your current research reflect this concern?
I’m interested in the connections between agents, selves, and persons and, more particularly, with the role of pre-reflective consciousness and the possibility of its being intentional yet sometimes phenomenologically hidden. There’s so much that current philosophy disregards because it upsets good theories, and those are the places I like to go.
How are the questions you have described personally significant for you?
They’re fun and exciting and, really I should be packing my bag so I don’t miss my plane.
Bye for now.
Susan
