Collective Intentionality VIII – as the name suggests! – is the eighth in a series of large-scale international events on joint and/or cooperative action, reasoning, decision, intention, attention, and associated mental and agential phenomena, topics that impact on issues in ethics and social ontology and which cross boundaries between philosophy, economics, politics and psychology. Previous events in the series have been hosted by the Universities of Basel (2010), Berkeley (2008), Helsinki (2006), Siena (2004), Rotterdam (2002), Leipzig (2000) and Munich (1999). This will be the first in the series hosted in the UK, and we are proud to announce that the University of Manchester has been selected to host the event.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Michael Tomasello (Leipzig)
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Michael Bratman (Stanford)
Kit Fine (NYU)
Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine)
SYMPOSIA
Cooperative action and reasoning (a special SINTELNET symposium):
Nick Bardsley (Reading), A. J. Julius (UCLA), Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki)
The cognitive psychology of joint action:
Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Guenther Knoblich (CEU), Wolfgang Prinz(Leipzig)
Plurals and collectivity:
Kirk Ludwig (Indiana), Alex Oliver (Cambridge), Thomas Smith (Manchester)
Empathy and fellow-feeling:
Pierre Jacob (Jean Nicod), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna), Joel Smith(Manchester)
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite papers for presentation in 30 minute sessions (20 minute presentation plus 10 minute discussion). Researchers in fields including (but not restricted to) philosophy, psychology, economics and political theory are warmly encouraged to submit. Please send drafts (abstracts if preferred), for blind review to collintviii@manchester.ac.uk by1st June 2012. Notification of acceptance by 1st July 2012. Registration closes on1st August 2012.
We will consider early submissions from those who can give good reasons (e.g. relating to sponsorship from their home institution) for needing to submit early.
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