THE KNOWLEDGE & ACTION LAB

East China Normal University / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Sunday June 5,  2016

ECNU, Shanghaï

Zhongbei Campus

Room : 理科大楼 204（人文学术沙龙）

2d WORKSHOP PHENOMENOLOGY AND COGNITION

PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE

APPROACHES TO PAIN

SESSION 1 :

10am-Noon

TETSUYA KONO

Rikkyo University, Tokyo

THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PAIN

Professor Tetsuya Kono has written extensively on the ecological, extended and embodied view of the mind (cf 2013 The Ecological view of the Mind, Keiso Shobo 2011 : Ecological Self : Body and Affordances, Kobunsha) , drawing on the phenomenological tradition and the body phenomenology of Merleau Ponty in particular.

SESSION 2 :

1.30 -3.30 pm

COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION :

 PAIN AT THE INTERSECTION

OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Moderators :

Profs. Jean-Michel Roy & He Jing

The property of pain has played a major role in the contemporay philosophy of Cognitive Science, as it has been used as a paradimatic case in the discussion of many proeminent issues such as the naturalization of mental properties, the distinction between qualitative and non qualitative mental properties, the representationality of qualitative ones, the specificity of phenomenal consciousness and the explanatory gap problem The discussion aims at examining the connections between these issues and the phenomenological approaches to pain. To this end, it will focus on the two questions of naturalization and specification of the content of qualitative properties, and will use two classical references as entry doors into these questions :

  1/ Ned Blocks 1978 « Troubles with functionalism », where N. Block argued that qualitative mental states such as pain cannot be naturalized by way of functionalization, initiating one important line of argumentation in the explanatory gap debate that flourished in the 1990s ;

  2/ Donald Price and Murat Aydedes « The experimental use of introspection in the scientific study of pain and it integration with thirs person methodologies : the experiential phenomenological approach » that provides a clear illustration of the general problem of integrating a phenomenological level of investigation into the neurocognitive explanatory framework of maintream cognitive science.

The moderators will provide a short presentation of the two articles ( attached to this announcement)

OPEN TO ALL

For more information, please contact :

Dr. He Jing : jeanshejing@163.com

Prof. J-M. Roy : Jean-Michel.Roy@ens-lyon.fr