CogPhi reading announcement

Dear all,

Next week we are reading Robert Brandon’s ‘The Theory of Biological Adaptation and Function’.

http://interdisciplines.org/adaptation/papers/10

Best,
Alexander

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CogPhi reading announcement

Dear all,

This Thursday we are reading Ryan McKay’s ‘The Evolution of Misbelief’.

http://interdisciplines.org/adaptation/papers/4

Best,
Alexander

Visit the CogPhi reading group website.

More conference announcements

Here are two more events happening this year:

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007 (Tucson) – Budapest, Hungary, July 23-26, 2007

9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) – Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007

E-Int: Transhumanism: Do We Want to Go All the Way to Ongar?

Speaker: Blay Whitby
Title: Transhumanism: Do We Want to Go All the Way to Ongar?
Date: 4:30-6:00 p.m., 22 February 2007
Place: Pevensey 1A1

Contemporary transhumansim encompasses a wide and growing set of both moral and technological claims. In this talk I will provide some vectors along which we might meaningfully describe some of those claims as ‘extreme’ ; rather than merely strange or unusual. I will also attempt to identify some claims as the core claims of transhumanism. This is very much work in progress and represents the latest stage in a protracted endeavour to develop a useful response to what I consider to be the greatest moral problem of the twenty-first century.

No previous knowledge of transhumanism is assumed. An assortment of definitions and characterizations will be provided for discussion.

Visit the e-intentionality seminars website.

An upcoming conference

• EuroCogSci 07 May 23rd-27th 2007, Delphi, Greece.

Some old conferences

• Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Perception and Action (Noe & Hurley) 15th-16th August 2006. Durham University, England.
• Situated Cognition: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Science (Gallagher, Hobson, Hurley, Marcel, Noe) 18th-20th August 2006, Durham University, England.
• European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) (Gergely, Goldin-Meadow, Haggard, Mulligan) 24th-27th August 2006. Queen’s University, Belfast, N. Ireland.
• The Fifth International Conference on Collective Intentionality (CollInt V) 31st August-2nd September 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
• 3rd IEEE Conference On Intelligent Systems 4th-6th September, University of Westminster, London.
• 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (Hashimoto, Nourbakhsh, Suchman) 6th-8th September, University of Hertfordshire, England.
• Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self (Gallagher, Goodwin, Wallace, Zahavi) 15th-17th September 2006. Oxford, England.
• From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’06) 25th-29th September 2006. Rome, Italy. Workshops include: Behaviour and Mind as a Complex Adaptive Systems, and Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication III.
• Brains, Persons, and Society 28th-30th September 2006, Milan, Italy.
• Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2006) 10th-14th October 2006, Island of Lesvos, Greece.
• Ethics of Human Interaction with Robotic, Bionic, and AI Systems Concepts and Policies 17th-18th October 2006, Naples, Italy.
• Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference (Kit Fine, Jonathan Lear) 11th-12th November 2006, University of Oxford, England.
• Third Arche Graduate Conference (Graham Priest, Diana Raffman, Jason Stanley) 17th-19th November, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
• MindGrad 2006: Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind 2nd-3rd December 2006, University of Warwick, England.
• Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006) 8th-10th December 2006, Barcelona, Spain.