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), ‘Consciousness and No Self?’

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

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