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Sponsored by Shell: hosted by the University of Hertfordshire

 

Fifth BWS Annual  Conference: Wittgenstein, Enactivism and Animal Minds took place on 7 - 8 July 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire
 

A report will be available shortly. Videos are online.

The archived Conference Programme is available for download.


photo of conference speakers by Ian Ground

Left to right: Peter Carruthers, Dan Hutto, Michael Tomasello, Mark Rowlands, Hans-Johann Glock, Dorit Bar-on, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Jose Medina, Colin Allen, Ned Block


photo of conference participants by Constantinos Athanasopoulos; action photos below by Ian Ground

Peter Carruthers Seminar Room Ned Block

Carolyn Wilde In conversation Mark Rowlands
Colin Allen Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Hans-Johann Glock
Michael Tomasello Daniel Hutto José  Medina

Conference organisers:
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock & Daniel D Hutto

 

Speakers were

Colin Allen (Indiana)
The geometry of partial understanding

Dorit Bar-On (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Mind: the gap
Ned Block (New York University)
The challenge to enactivism

Peter Carruthers (Maryland)
Animal minds are real, (distinctively) human minds are not

Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich)
Animal minds: a non-representationalist approach
Daniel D Hutto (Hertfordshire)
The reach of radical enactivism
Jose Medina (Vanderbilt)
An enactivist approach to the imagination
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire)
Wittgenstein's razor
Mark Rowlands (Miami)
Enactivism, intentionality and content

Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute)
If a chimpanzee could speak…

Conference proceedings to be published in a special issue of American Philosophical Quarterly.

email: bws@herts.ac.uk