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Merely “To Be or Not to Be” Is No Longer the Question The Shalem Center will host scholars from multiple disciplines at an international conference on Psycho-Ontology in Jerusalem on December 11-15, 2011. The conference will address the possible connection between the operations of the human mind and the fundamental structure of existence.
As disciplines, cognitive science and metaphysics are generally conducted without reference to one another, though philosophers from Hume to Kant, and James, Bergson, Husserl, Kuhn, and Goodman have, in different ways, seemed to indicate a relationship. At the upcoming Psycho-Ontology Conference, participants will raise questions that can be of interest to current philosophy and cognitive science: What role do perception, thought, and emotion play in helping to constitute the world we inhabit? And conversely, what can studying the fundamental features of reality reveal about the way human cognitive processes work?
Such queries are the stuff that psycho-ontology is made of.
The conference will be chaired by Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center Jesse Prinz, and Shalem Center Provost and Senior Fellow at Shalem’s Institute of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion Yoram Hazony. Distinguished participating philosophers, psychologists, and linguists include Lera Borodisky (Stanford University), David Chalmers (Australian National University), Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University), Steven Horst (Wesleyan University), Steven Pinker (Harvard University), Susanna Siegel (Harvard University), and Amie L. Thomasson (University of Miami).
For more information, please visit www.psychoontology.org or contact Meirav Jones at MeiravJ@Shalem.org.il.
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