Connectionists: Call for Application: Interdisciplinary Tübingen Summer School on "Operationalisation of mental states"

[Moritz Grosse-Wentrup]

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# CFA
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Call for Application
Interdisciplinary Tübingen Summer School
With David Papineau and Simone Schütz-Bosbach

"Operationalisation of mental states"

September 26th to 29th, 2011

The summer school 2011 on "operationalisation of mental states", is a 
joint venture of the Forum Scientiarum 
(www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de) and the Werner Reichardt Centre 
for Integrative Neuroscience (http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de).

## Deadline

July 31st, 2011

# Topic
The topic of this year's summer school is "operationalisation of mental 
states", thus concerning the conceptual and empirical problems of 
accessing ones mind. What are mentals states and how can they be 
measured? How are mind and brain related and why does it matter for 
empirical research? What is a "self" and how is it embodied?

These are but a few examples of what is going to be discussed. The goal 
is to work on the foundations of the mind-body-problem and to have an 
interdisciplinary perspective on the main concepts of philosophy of 
mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

# Faculty

## David Papineau

Is professor of philosophy of science at King's College London. His 
research interests are -- amongst others -- the philosophy of mind and 
consciousness, and the question how reason evolved.

www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/papineau

## Simone Schütz-Bosbach

Is head of the research group "body and self" at the Max Planck 
Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Her 
research has a focus on cognitive neuroscience and the embodiment of the 
self.

www.cbs.mpg.de/~bosbach

# Programme

The summer school will take place from the 26th to the 29th of September 
in the beautiful Kloster Heiligkreuztal close to Tübingen 
(http://www.kloster-heiligkreuztal.de).

This event aims at advanced students, graduates and Ph.D. students. 
Accommodation and meals will be covered, and travelling expenses for 
foreign participants can be subsidised with up to 100 €. There is a 
maximum of 25 places on the summer school.

We intend to publish selected essays in an edited volume.

# Application

Participants will have to apply with an English language essay (1000 to 
2000 words) on the topic: focus can be on philosophy or neuroscience or 
the connection between them. We suggest that the essays are based on the 
works of Papineau and/or Schütz-Bosbach.

An additional application form is downloadable from our website 
(www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool) and has to be 
submitted with the essay. Deadline is July 31st.

Applications should be sent to info at fsci.uni-tuebingen.de or to our 
postal address: FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Doblerstr. 33, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.

-- 
Dr.-Ing. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Project Leader & Senior Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Dept. Schölkopf
Spemannstraße 38
72076 Tübingen
Telephone: +49-7071-601-547
moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de
http://brain-computer-interfaces.net