Seminar #34: Enactive Definitions

On Wednesday, 27th Feb. 2008, 16:30 – 18:00, Room Arundel 204
Joel Parthemore, from COGS, Sussex will be talking about:
Enactive Definitions
Classical definitionism, for all that it long held sway, fell prey to the problem, as Jerry Fodor bluntly put it, that no one has ever
managed to come up with any knock-down definitions. But did the [...]

Seminar #33: Mind as Practical Rationality

On Wednesday, 20th Feb. 2008, 16:30 – 18:00, Room PEV1 2A01
Mike Beaton, from COGS, Sussex will be talking about:
Mind as Practical Rationality
Recently I’ve been exploring that idea that mind is best described as a locus of practical rationality. That is to say, I describe mind in terms of a creature’s behaviours (and counterfactual behaviours: behaviours [...]

Seminar #32: How Enactivism relates to Reflexive Monism

This week we will have another special Life and Mind seminar!
When: Wednesday, 13th Feb., at 16:30
Where: Room Pev1 1A01
We are very pleased to have Prof. Max Velmans, from the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, talk to us about his work. His main research interest is in the area of consciousness studies, with [...]