25-27 August, 2008

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The goal:

Is to enable the participants, mainly ph-d students, to:

1. Grasp the notions of self-awareness and correlated concepts of self-reference and of the self.
2. To learn about approaches to naturalization of consciousness. e.g., certain basic metaphysical questions will be exposed and discussed here in relation to biology.
3. To learn how psychiatric disorders entail anomalies of self-experience (self-disorders), especially in schizophrenia, affective illness, borderline personality disorders, infantile autism and in selected neurological syndromes. 
4. The forum will also provide possibility for presentation and discussion of participants? own projects and thus create a space for an interdisciplinary debate.

Main Topics:

• Concepts of self
• Phenomenology of self and self-awareness
• Analytic philosophy?s views on self
• Organization and continuity of life and consciousness
• Development of self
• Self and infantile autism
• Self and schizophrenia
• Self and corporeality in affective illness
• Disorders of self-experience in neurological syndromes
  
  

Venue:

The Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S.

School director: Josef Parnas MD, Professor of Psychiatry

Teachers:
Josef Parnas (psychiatry, Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) University of
Copenhagen)

Louis Sass (psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Dan Zahavi (philosophy, CFS, University of Copenhagen)

Evan Thompson (philosophy, Universityof Toronto)

Thomas Fuchs (psychiatry, University of Heidelberg)

Pierre Rochat (developmental psychology, Emory University)

Drs. Dorothée Legrand and Thor Grünbaum (CFS, University of Copenhagen)