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Consciousness
Against a priori Arguments for Dualism
Eric Hiddleston
Wayne State University
How to Know That You Are Not a Zombie
Brentyn Ramm
The Australian National University
Less than Conscious: The Dehumanizing Impact of Interdependent Definitions of Self and Consciousness
Michelle Marvin
University of Notre Dame
Dualistic Idealism: No Supervenience of Consciousness on the Physical, but No Influence of Consciousness on the Physical Either
Christian D. Schade
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Garden-path Processing and Consciousness
David Pereplyotchik
Kent State University
Consciousness, Neuroimaging and Personhood: Current and Future Neuroethical Challenges
James Beauregard and Macksood Aftab
River University and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Consciousness Noise
Bradley Seebach and Eric Kraemer
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Parts of Consciousness
Cameron Bosinski
University at Buffalo
The Re-enchantment of Consciousness: A Qualitative Inquiry into Scientific or Mechanistic Aspect of Consciousness
Rajakishore Nath
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Physicalism and the Privacy of Conscious Experiences
Miklos Marton and Janos Tozser
ELTE University Budapest, University of Kaposvar
The Insignificance of Empty Higher-Order States
Daniel Shargel
Lawrence Technological University
The Epoche and the The Intentional Stance
David Haack
The New School for Social Research
The Interiority of Experience: A Reflection on Searle’s Theorization of Intentionality
Ranjan Kumar Panda
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Consciousness and Cognitive Individuation
Philip Woodward
Valparaiso University
Future of Conscious Therapeutics in Alzheimer’s Disease
Farhan Ahmad
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Julian Jaynes’ Search for Consciousness in his Unpublished History of Comparative Psychology
Scott Greer
University of Prince Edward Island
Consciousness, Situationism and Responsibility: Can We Be Morally Responsible If We Are Unconscious of Situational Factors that Cause Our Actions?
Marcela Herdova
Florida State University
From Pre-reflective Consciousness to Explicit Thematic Awareness: Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies, Existential-Phenomenology, and Becoming Aware of Systems of Oppression
Zachary Purdue
University of South Florida
Mirror Neurons, Empathy and Autism
Ruth Sample
University of New Hampshire
Nate Stout
Tulane University
Laura Harrison
Caltech University
Jeffrey Hinzmann
Florida State University
Roma Hernandez
Rice University
Robyn Gaier
Viterbo University
Ylva Gustafsson
Åbo Akademi University
Kelly Levinstein
University of Michigan-Flint
Neurotherapeutics and Psychosurgery
How to Avoid Hyping up "Cognitive Enhancement"
Alexandre Erler
University of Montreal
Reply by Kate Mehuron, Eastern Michigan University
What is Enhancement? Some Context and Concerns
Catherine Gee
University of Waterloo
Reply by Don Jones, University of Central Florida
Moral Obligation and Possessing Reasons in Genetic Enhancement
Sruthi Rothenfluch
University of Portland
Does the Human Right to Health Entail a Right to Biomedical Enhancement?
Martin Gunderson
Macalester College
Enactive Perception and the Ethics of Human Enhancement
Don Jones
University of Central Florida
Luck Egalitarianism and Enhancements
Rhonda Martens
University of Manitoba
Reply by Simon Cushing, University of Michigan-Flint
The Complexity of Suicide: Review of Recent Neuroscientific Evidence
Erica Ching
University of Toronto
Reversibility and Deep Brain Stimulation
Jennifer Mundale
University of Central Florida
Our Many Minds
James Blackmon
San Francisco State University
The Work of Cognition and Neuroethics in Science Fiction
Unrecognizably Human: Empathic Perception and Augmented Others in Recent Science Fiction Film
Shannon Foskett
University of Chicago
Being, Technologically Human
Meghan Roehll
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Black Mirror's "The Entire History of You:" Memory As A Recording Device
Mark Huston
Schoolcraft College
Electric Existentialism: The Sisyphean Subject in Greg Egan's Permutation City
Brandon Fenton
York University
Science Fiction Embedded in Neuroethics: Mindlessness and Nihilism
Howard Ducharme
University of Akron
The Quality of Life: The Implications of Augmented Personhood and Machine Intelligence in Science Fiction
Damien Williams
Independent Scholar
The Informational Substance of Human Reality: Cognitive Growth, Healing, Communication, Radical Transformation
Susan Castro
Wichita State University
Experiencing Universal Interconnection through Science Fiction Minds
Peter Buzby
Penn State University
Dual-Process, Two-Minds, and Science Fiction
Joshua Mugg
York University
Blockchain Thinkers and Smart Contracts to Take over the World?
Melanie Swan
Kingston University London
Mary Shelley’s Uncanny Consciousness: Frankenstein as a Thought Experiment for the 21st Century
James Tierney
Oakland University
Biology in/as Rhetoric in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction: A New Paradigm for Epistemology
Meghan K. Riley
University of Waterloo
Evolution and Neuroethics in the Hyperion Cantos
Brendan Shea
Rochester Community and Technical College
Identity, Ethics, and Complex Decision Making in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Ellen Moll
Michigan State University
Moral Enhancements: What Does Science Fiction Teach Us about Moral Improvements?
Jason Howard, David Bauer, and Jeffery Nyseth
Viterbo University
Apes with a Moral Code? Exploring the Boundaries of Moral Responsibility in The Planet of the Apes
Paul Carron
Baylor University
Michigan Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Identity and Causality: Foucault’s Subject and Kant’s Third Antinomy
Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
DePaul University
Reply: Cody Hatfield-Myers
Dissolving the "Other Person" Problem
Charles Dalrymple-Fraser
University of Toronto
Reply: Thomas Mann, UM-Flint
Incommensurability and Partial Reference
Daniel Flavin
Hope College
Reply: Andy Slabchuck
What a Cow is for
Kinley Gillette
University of Pittsburgh
Reply: Ben Van Slyke
Seemingly Alive: Full-brain Death is Death
Andrew Rydlund
University of St. Thomas in St. Paul
Reply: Johnathon Bold
Embedded Cognition: An Argument for a Synthetic Approach to Consciousness
Matthew Williams
Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa
Reply: Charles Dalrymple-Fraser
The Philanthropy Machine
Abigail Dehart
Grand Valley State University
Reply: Stephen Osika