Ratio Conference 2017

University of Reading


Self and Attention: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Saturday 22 April, 2017


Speakers: 

Jonardon Ganeri (NYU), ‘The Role of Attention in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind’

Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS), ‘Attention as a Means of Self-Dissolution and Reformation’

Jan Westerhoff (Oxford), ‘Language, Truth, and Meaning in Madhyamaka’

Jake Davis (NYU), ‘Virtues of Attention’

Sebastian Watzl (Oslo), (tba)

James Stazicker (Reading), ‘Attention as Visual Determinacy’

 

£20, £10 (students & concessions) – includes lunch & refreshments.

Student bursaries are available 

 
Registration: 9.30-10.00 am. The final talk ends at 5.30 pm

Please book online: http://store.rdg.ac/2017AprRatioConference


Further information:  https://ratioconference.wordpress.com

or contact Shalini Sinha,  shalini.sinha@reading.ac.uk



Venue: Room G10, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6UD 


Thanks to The Mind Association, The Analysis Trust and the NYU Virtues of Attention Project (https://wp.nyu.edu/attention/) for their support



Dr. Shalini Sinha
Lecturer in Non-Western Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, The University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AA.