CEP 2006 September 14, 2006

EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF EXPERIENCE AND SELF

Where are the boundaries of conscious experience and self, and why do these boundaries exist? How do they develop in interaction with parents, carers and others? In what ways are they conditioned by prevailing systems of belief, philosophy, sociocultural history, and environment? How is adult experience and sense of self altered by psychological, social or spiritual development? How does subjective experience relate to intersubjectivity? How do changes in conscious experience affect one's sense of self, for example through meditation, mysticism, or in pathological states? In this 10th Annual Conference we encourage papers that explore these and related themes from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, social science, ecology, Eastern and Western spiritual practices, and other, related disciplines.

Keynote speakers include Shaun Gallagher (Univ. of Florida), Brian Goodwin (Schumacher College), Alan B. Wallace (Santa Barbara Institute), and Dan Zahavi (Univ. of Copenhagen).

See also the Mind & Reality blog
http://blog.mindandreality.org/

Official Website: http://www.bps.org.uk/conex/events/events_home.cfm