Philosophy Conference

 

 

 

 Organizers:

¶     South China Normal University (Guangzhou)

¶     Harvard University Department of Philosophy

¶     Asia International Open University (Macau)

 

²      Research Centre for Systems Science and Systems Management, South China Normal University

²      Asia International Open University (Macau)

²      School of Public Administration, South China Normal University

● The future and contemporary debates of the mind-body problem

● The issues of Emergence in philosophy of mind, cognition and complexity science

● Conceptual analyses in accounts of mental phenomena

● Reductionism and non-reductionism

● Cognition and representation

● Evolution of cooperation and human culture

 

Ø       December 11^th - 13^th, a workshop, lectures by some scholars to Chinese graduate students as well as scholars.

Ø       December 14^th - 15^th, the conference at South China Normal University, GZ, including the main program and group program.

Ø       A visit to Macau, the Special Administrative Region of China, on December 16^th (It will take about two hours by car from Guangzhou to Macau. We will go back Guangzhou in the evening of 17^th and the conference is ended.)

 

International participants: US$ 200; Full-time students: US$ 100.

* Registration fees include conference materials, all the meals during the conference (including the welcome banquet on December 14^th, and the farewell banquet on the 16^th), tea breaks, and roundtrip transportation between Guangzhou and Macau, and local sightseeing.

* International travel costs and hotel expenses are not covered by the conference.

 

HuaShi (GDH) Hotel(the university guest house of SCNU,a four-star business hotel)

Address: No. 55 Zhongshan Avenue West, Tianhe, Guangzhou, China

Tel: (86-20)85216888      Fax: (86-20)85216606  

● Double room:  RMB ￥120, per person, per night.

● Single room:  RMB ￥240, per night.

* The organizing committee will help to arrange accommodation when receiving the “Registration Form”.

 

◆ Registration: Up to September 30, 2010 on line.

 (Please return your “Registration Form” to either of the following email addresses)

◆Abstracts Submission: On or before October 30, 2010

(Please submit your abstract about 800 words to either of the following email addresses)

◆Reception :There will be Reception on the December 13^th from 7:00 am to Midnight.  Reception will take place in the lobby of the HuaShi (GDH) Hotel. .

 

For any further information about the conference, please feel free to contact:

Kuang yinyin      Email: cowyin@hotmail.com Tel：0086-13560115191

Fan Dongping       Email: fandping@126.com   Tel:  0086-13925066610

 

International Conference on “the Cross-Cutting Issues and Frontier Issues of

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind”:

Emergence, Evolution and the Mind-body Problem

Guangzhou and Macau, December 11-17, 2010