Guest Lectures: Ned Block

Time and place:  Nov 27, 2006 10:00 AM - Nov 28, 2006 12:00 PM, Oslo

Ned Block (New York University) will be visiting the Centre to give three guest lectures.

November 27

• 10.15.-12.00: The Methodological Puzzle of the Neural Basis of Phenomenal Consciousness (Georg Sverdrups hus, Undervisningsrom 2)
• 14.15-16.00: Phenomenal Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem (Georg Sverdrups hus, Undervisningsrom 1)

November 28

• 10.15-12.00: Wittgenstein and Qualia (Georg Sverdrups hus, Auditorium 2)

Ned Block is Silver Professor at the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science and is currently writing a book on consciousness with the support of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006-2007. He is co-editor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (MIT Press, 1997). The first of two volumes of his collected papers, Functionalism, Consciousness and Representation, is forthcoming from MIT Press