CALL FOR PAPERS
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2015
University of Helsinki, Finland, 9-13 June 2015
Pre-conference workshops: 8 June 2015
http://www.helsinki.fi/tsc2015
Submission deadline: 30 November 2014
Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized.
Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud to host TSC 2015 in the Great Hall of its neoclassical main building located in the downtown area.
TSC 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Jean-Pierre Changeux | Patricia S. Churchland | David Chalmers | Jaakko Hintikka
TSC 2015 PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Harald Atmanspacher | Susan Blackmore | Peter Bruza | Deepak Chopra | Travis Craddock | Rocco Gennaro | Philip Goff | Stuart Hameroff | Riitta Hari | John Heil | James Ladyman | Steven Jay Lynn | Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky | George Mashour | Alyssa Ney | David Papineau | Antti Revonsuo | William Seager | Petra Stoerig | Jennifer Windt | Dan Zahavi
TSC 2015 PLENARY SESSIONS:
- Social Neuroscience, Body Image and Phenomenology (Hari, Stoerig, Zahavi)
- Dreams, Virtual Realities, and Hypnosis (Lynn, Windt, Revonsuo)
- Anesthesia, Physics, and Consciousness (Mashour, Hameroff, Craddock)
- Metaphysics of Consciousness (Heil, Ney, Papineau)
- Quantum Ideas in Consciousness Studies (Bruza, Atmanspacher, Lambert-Mogiliansky)
- Consciousness and Structuralism (Goff, Ladyman Seager)
- East vs.