Archiv des Autors: saschabenjaminfink
Talk@Zürich: Ego-Dissolution & Ego-Expansion
I will talk in Zürich on Ego-Dissolution & Ego-Expansion.
Talk@Salzburg: Singer’s Darwinian Left (13. July 2019)
I have the great honour to speak at a symposium for Georg Meggle in Salzburg. Following his wishes, I will speak about Peter Singer’s Darwinian Left.
Talk@Berlin: Structuralism in Consciousness Studies (8. July 2019)
I will talk at our workshop at the HU Berlin on Structuralism on Consciousness Studies.
Talk @ LIN: What is a neural correlate of consciousness (03. July 2019)
I will speak on what a neural correlate of consciousness is and we want it to be at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg on the 3rd of July 2019.
Visiting Researcher at NYU
I will be on research leave from September 2019 to February 2020 as a visiting scholar at New York University, working on the intersection between phenomenal privacy and the search for neural correlates of consciousness. (In August I will be off work to prepare this trip.)
Ginger Patron
I am very happy to be a sponsor of the wonderful historic Grusan Growhouses. I am patron of the „dubious spiral ginger“ (costus dubius). Feel free to joke about it, but it is an awesome plant!
Books: Advisor #philosophieorientiert
The German publishing house J.B.Metzler will be publishing a beautiful series of books, written by analytic philosophers to topics that will interest the main public. I am very honoured to serve as an advisor and thank Thomas Grundmann (Cologne) who heads this series. Look out for it!
Workshop: Structuralism in Consciousness Studies @Berlin
http://www.mind-and-brain.de/rtg-2386/workshop-structuralism-2019/
Holger Lyre and I will be organising a workshop on structuralism in consciousness studies, where we discuss quality spaces, phenomenal relations and just noticeable differences to individuate „qualia“ non-intrinsically. 8.-10- July @ Berlin School of Mind and Brain.
Speakers will be:
Prof. David Papineau
Department of Philosophy
King’s College London
Prof. Alastair Isaac
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Prof. David Rosenthal
Graduate Center
City University of New York
Prof. Diana Raffman
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Prof. Lieven Decock
Department of Philosophy
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. Andreas Engel
Institute for Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Speakers form the RTG Extrospection
Prof. John-Dylan Haynes
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Michael Pauen
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Laura Kaltwasser
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Holger Lyre
University of Magdeburg
Prof. Sascha Benjamin Fink
University of Magdeburg
Radio: Flow und Psychedelika (SRF)
https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/hoerpunkt/hoerpunkt-der-tag-die-lust-am-abheben
Unter diesem Link findet sich der Thementag „Die Lust am Abheben“ (2. Mai 2019) auf dem SRF. Zum zweiten und dritten Beitrag war ich mit Katrin Preller als Diskussionsgast zugeschaltet.