Consciousness is not some peculiar qualitative aspect of private mental states, nor a property of the brain inside the skull; it is a relational mode of being of the whole person embedded in the natural environment and the human social world. Now, with the final passing of the emphasis on the purely cognitive and computationally-friendly aspects of being, there is the opportunity to establish a broader science, possibly even to establish a more fully-comprehensive account of being-in-the-world from phenomenological and technological perspectives.
Personnel
Director: Susan Stuart, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, HATII
Co-Director: Philip Tonner,
Research Support Officer, Glasgow Museums
HATII Graduate Assistants: James Girdwood and Louise Cameron
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Events
Human All Too Human
A series of films - followed by some discussion - will be shown in Room 201, 11 University Gardens from 5pm - 7pm on the following dates:
Nietzsche Wednesday 21st January 2009
Sartre Wednesday 4th February 2009
Heidegger Wednesday 18th February 2009
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Wednesday 4th March 2009
The first three are BBC documentaries from 1999, the fourth is a film about human being in the most extreme circumstances of locked-in syndrome.
"Friedrich Nietzsche and the Pathology of Resentment" William Sharkey, 11th March 2009
"Deleuze on Immanence and Phenomenology" Neil McGinness, 25th March 2009
Film and Discussion: Ape Man: Adventures of Human Evolution, 5pm-7pm, 21st April 2009
"Foucault: What is enlightenment? Recasting the question in relation to the problem of madness." Mark Gallagher, 29th April 2009
Everyone welcome.
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