EVENTS AND COLLOQUIA
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February 19, Friday, 3:30-5:00, Howard Hall 202
Immortality
I discuss various objections to the idea that embodied immortality could be desirable for human beings. I argue against the "immortality curmudgeons", such as Heidegger and Bernard Williams, that such immortality could conceivably be attractive to human beings.
March 5, Friday, 3:30-5:00, Howard Hall 202
Plato on Ignorance as a Cognitive Power
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March 12, Friday, 3:30-5:00, Howard Hall 202
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April 9, Friday, 3:30-5:00, Howard Hall 202
John Sutton (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Skilled Movement and Embodied Cognition
Theorists of embodied cognition often mention the interactive real-time dynamics of jazz improvisation, fast team sports, or animated conversation. This paper uses these case studies to address the specific problem of understanding how experts can (fallibly) influence their own grooved skilled performances -- an applied version of the mind-body problem. Phenomenologists, cognitive scientists, and expert practitioners alike reject the intellectualist idea that skilled movement is governed by rich internalized motor programs which specify actions in advance. But many over-react by evacuating skilled action of all cognition, awareness, and control. I discuss three empirical research programmes -- in sport, music, and dance -- which might seem to support the view that skilled movement is thus "mindless": in fact each suggests a complex interplay in which flowing action remains open to certain forms of awareness and control. Both phenomenology and cognitive science offer reasons to resist the idea that skilled action is sealed off from cognition.
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Conscientiousness and Harmony
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Edward Cushman (Lewis & Clark College), cushman@lclark.edu
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