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This year's topic is "Evolution and mind: optimality, design and function".

The schedule for the Spring 2008 semester is now available here

Links:

UC Berkeley Campus Links:

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Department of Philosophy

Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Department of Psychology

Vision Science Program

Department of Linguistics

Computer Science Division

Wheeler Brain Imaging Center

Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience



Off-Campus Links:

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)

The Center for Consciousness Studies

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Society for Neuroscience

About the Group:

The purpose of the Townsend Center Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind is to promote interdisciplinary dialogue on topics of interest to faculty, graduate students, and postgraduate researchers engaged in the contemporary study of the mind. The group meets several times each semester. Some meetings are led by a researcher, usually from a Bay area institution, whose work is of particular relevance to the interests of the group. Other meetings will be dedicated to discussion of readings related to the topic.

Anyone interested in receiving e-mailed updates about future working group events can subscribe to our listserv by sending an e-mail message to Ariel Rokem, with "subscribe mindworkinggroup" in the subject line of your message.

Organizers:
Ariel Rokem (Neuroscience)
Melissa Fusco (Philosophy)
Alva Noë (Philosophy)


Acknowledgements:
We are grateful to the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Department of Philosophy , and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute for their sponsorship of this group.