Professor Ned Block’s visit to HKU

Photo from the public lecture

Professor Ned Block visiting HKU in May 2008

Professor Ned Block will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor at HKU during 3 – 17 May 2008. He works in the area of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Please see http://www.hku.hk/philodep/block for a list of his lectures and workshops.

His public lecture “How to find consciousness in the brain” is on Thursday 15th May 2008.
Time: 5pm-7pm (refreshments will be served after the lecture)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU

[Seminar] Goldstein: Unconscious decisions, Banburismus and the Brain

Wednesday Oct 3rd 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Main Building, Room 305
University of Hong Kong

Unconscious decisions, Banburismus and the Brain
Prof. Laurence Goldstein
University of Kent

Abstract

Banburismus is a process originally invented by Alan Turing to sort promising coding hypotheses from non-promising ones in attempting to decipher a coded message. There exists a neural counterpart to this process responsible for our unconscious decisions and which accounts for the behaviour of an individual subject of a Sorites-experiment. This paper relates that empirical finding to a philosophical solution of the general Sorites paradox.

NB: Professor Goldstein is one of the founders of the HKU BCogsc Programme, and was the Head of the HKU Philosophy Department.

Co-sponsored by:
Cognitive Science program (BCogSc)
Philosophy Department