Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series (14):Consciousness and the Place of Mind in Nature(2025年11月7日（金））

The so-called emergence of a science of consciousness in the 1990s has at best been a science of human consciousness. This talk aims to advance a true Darwinian science of consciousness in which its evolutionary origin, function, and phylogenetic diversity are moved from the field’s periphery to its very centre, thus enabling us to integrate consciousness into an evolutionary view of life. Accordingly, this talk has two objectives: (i) to argue for the need and possibility of an evolutionary bottom-up approach that addresses the problem of consciousness in terms of the evolutionary origins of a new ecological lifestyle that made consciousness worth having and (ii) to articulate a thesis and beginnings of a theory of the place of consciousness as a complex evolved phenomenon in nature that can help us to answer the question of what it is like to be a bat, an octopus, or a crow.
 

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開催日時：2025年11月7日（金）17時00分～18時30分
開催場所：神戸大学人文学研究科 B234
参加費　：なし

事前登録：不要
演者 ：Walter Veit (University of Reading)

 

問い合わせ先
神戸大学人文学研究科 准教授　新川拓哉(niikawa@ferret.kobe-u.ac.jp)
 

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