The World in Us: Gestalt Structure, Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition
7th-9th July
Room G32, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ
University of Edinburgh
This three day conference will investigate the interrelations between Gestalt Psychology, Phenomenology, and contemporary Cognitive Science.
Attendance is free, but we would be grateful if you could register your intention to attend by emailing Dr. Rosa Hardt (s1231625@sms.ed.ac.uk) with "Registration: The World in Us" in the subject line. A full schedule and list of speakers is below. Accessibility information for the conference venue is available here: http://bit.ly/1rUy7Mz
This conference is funded by the Cambridge New Directions in the Study of Mind project, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, with additional funding from the Scots Philosophical Association, EIDYN, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Friday 7th July
10 - 10:45
Julian Kiverstein (Amsterdam): Perceiving value in a world of facts
10:45 - 11:30
Adam Linson (Dundee): Reconfiguring the frameworks of J. J. Gibson and H. L. Dreyfus through the active inference approach to ecological perception
11:30 - 11:45
Coffee
11:45 - 12:30
John Preston (Reading): From Gestalt Psychology to Phenomenology in the work of Michael Polanyi
12:30 - 2
Lunch Break
2 - 3
Sanneke de Haan (Berlin): Can Anybody Tell Me if This is Me? Towards an Enactive Account of Authenticity
3 - 3:45
Hayden Kee (Fordham): Defending Enactivism’s Phenomenological Heritage: Merleau-Ponty on Sense-Making
3:45 - 4:15
Coffee
4:15 - 5:30
Tony Chemero (Cincinnati): The World Around Us
Saturday 8th JULY
10:00 - 11:00
Charles-Edouard Niveleau (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne): Paving the path to the Gestaltist style of experimentation: The use and significance of phenomenological demonstration in Brentano's study of sensory phenomena
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 12:15
Matthew Crippen (Cairo): “Film and the New Psychology”: Emotions, Situations and the Kuleshov Effect
12:15 - 1:00
Sarah Pawlett-Jackson (Open University): Gestalt Structures in Multi-Person Intersubjectivity: The Evidence From Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition
1 - 2:30
LUNCH
2:30 - 3:15
Manuel Gustavo Isaac (Swiss NSF and Amsterdam): Semiotic Intentionality For Multi-E Cognition
3:15 - 4:00
Vicente Raja (Cincinnati): Why isn’t Kepler the Father of Embodied Cognition? Gestalt, Phenomenology and Embodiment.
4 - 4:30
30 min coffee break
4:30 - 5:45
Uljana Feest (Hanover): The Status of Phenomenology in Gestalt Psychology
1930: Conference dinner
Sunday 9th July
10:30 - 11:15
Roy Dings (Radboud): Understanding phenomenological differences in how affordances solicit action: An exploration
11:15 - 12:00
Becky Millar (Edinburgh): Smelling Objects
12 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 2:45
Gary Hatfield (Penn): Gibson’s Realism: The Role of Construction
2:45 - 3:00
Coffee
3:00 - 4:00
Closing discussion