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Workshop 'Prospects for Dualism' (Amsterdam, Feb 2005)

Prospects for Dualism

One-day workshop, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Sponsored by the Afdeling Wijsbegeerte, the Chairs for Ethics, Philosophy
of Language, Psychology, and Logic and Cognitive Science, and the
Amsterdam Center for Cognitive Science (CSCA), all of the Universiteit van
Amsterdam.

Date: Friday, 4th February 2005

Location: Vondelzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Singel 425, 1012 WP
Amsterdam.

Participation: Due to a restricted number of available places in the
Vondelzaal please express your interest to the organizer, Dr. Wolfram
Hinzen, at w.hinzen@uva.nl

Program

9:00-9:45 Wolfram Hinzen (ILLC, philosophy, Amsterdam) Introductory
remarks on dualism

9:45-10:45 Jonathan Lowe (philosophy, Durham) Non-Cartesian Substance
Dualism and the Problem of Mental Causation

Coffee/Tea and cookies

11:00-12:00 Peter Molenaar (psychology and CSCA, Amsterdam) Additional
arguments for substance dualism: Explicit methodological research
implications based on a new formal equivalence between theories of matter
and theories of mind

12:00-13:00 Dick Bierman (psychology, Amsterdam and Utrecht) Laboratory
research on Dualism

Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Uwe Meixner (philosophy, Regensburg/Saarbruecken) Three tasks
for dualists

15:00-16:00 Juan Uriagereka (linguistics, University of Maryland) Adjunct
Space?

Coffie/Tea, more cookies

16:15-17:15 Johan den Boer (neuropsychiatry, Groningen) Is it possible to
close the explanatory gap?

17:15 Closing discussion