Workshop 14 Dec: Intentions and Control of Action registration OPEN

Friday 14 December 2012, 10.00am - 6.30pm, Room 349, Senate House
CenSes Workshop: Intentions and Control of Action
Supported by The Danish Council for Independent Research

The notion of intention is central to both philosophical and psychological explanations of human agency. To explain the human ability to rationally control actions, we need to understand the temporal dynamics of practical reasoning and decision making. This workshop aims to shed light on the role of intentions in the control of actions by bringing together recent work in philosophy of action, psychological modelling of attention, experimental investigations of the sense of agency, and neuroscience of goal selection.

PROGRAMME

10:00-10:15: Registration/Tea & Coffee
10:15-10:30: Introduction
10:30-11:45: Berit Brogaard: “The role of attention and intention in the brain's computation of metric properties”
11:45-13:00: Morten Overgaard: “Correlation and explanation between different levels of description in the cognitive neuroscience of perception and intention”
13:00-14:15: Lunch [own arrangements]
14:15-15:30: Bahador Bahrami: “The importance of "failure" in inferring interpersonal reliability"
15:30-16:45: Thor Grunbaum: “Intentions and models of motor control”
16:45-17:15: Tea
17:15-18:30: Soren Kyllingsbaek: “Modeling Intentions”

There are no fees, but please register by sending a message to philosophy@sas.ac.uk with “Intentions and Action 14 Dec” as the subject header. In the message please state in the following format:

1. Surname, Forename
2. Any affiliation (current staff and students should state department and/or course)

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