Pathologies of self-awareness

The Australian Research Council, the research center Savoirs, Textes, Langage and the Institut Jean Nicod are pleased to announce a two days interdisciplinary workshop of self-awareness and its pathologies.

The nature and even existence of self-awareness is a venerable topic in philosophy. It is equally important to psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists who often look to philosophy for frameworks in which to explain disorders such as the experience of depersonalisation. One notable interdisciplinary development in the area is a focus on the role of interoceptive processes in the experience of self awareness. 

This workshop is an opportunity to assess recent work in the area focussing on, but not limited to, a range of conditions in which self awareness is compromised or in extreme cases absent.

Date : April the 13th and 14th (2023)

Location : salle L382/384, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm, Paris

Attendance is free, but registration is needed (at pathologiesofselfawareness[chez]gmail[point].com).

Confirmed speakers :  

Alexandre Billon (STL, Université de Lille)

Anna Ciaunica (CFCUL, University of Lisbon)

Anthony David (Kings College, Cambridge)

Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)

Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez (National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery Mexico City)

Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)

We have one or two available slots a for 40 minutes presentations. 

Philosophers psychiatrists or neuroscientists are invited to submit abstracts (800-1000 words) by  February the 20th. to pathologiesofselfawareness[chez]gmail[point].com. For accepted speakers at the workshop, we can pay costs of accommodation, but not travel nor food.