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Dear friends,
Is anyone interested for the call "Consciousness in a natural and cultural
context"?
It is an extremely interesting and challenging issue and I would like to
express our (Intercollege, Cyprus) intention in creating or joining a
network in order to appy for the aforemention call.
Intercollege is the biggest private institution of higher education in
Cyprus and has a great source of interdisciplinary scientists.
If you are looking for partners or if you want to join in this project as
partners don't hesitate to contact us.
All the best,
Evi Eftychiou
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http://www.intercollege.ac.cy
Research and Development Center - Intercollege
46 Makedonitissas Av.
1700 Nicosia
Cyprus
Tel.22841609
Fax.22355622
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Subject: Call for outline proposals: Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural
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On 2 June (yesterday), the European Science Foundation (ESF) launched a call
for outline proposals for research projects on "Consciousness in a Natural
and Cultural Context (CNCC)". I would be grateful if you could assist us in
promoting this call to researchers in your school. I believe it will be
highly relevant for academics in CCNI, but probably also for researchers in
social anthropology.
With the above call, the ESF seeks to fund interdisciplinary and
multinational research projects which approach the phenomon of consciousness
from different angles. It aims to bring together psychologists,
neuroscientists and biomedical researchers on the one hand and
anthropologists, historians, researchers in literary, religious and cultural
studies on the other to achieve a significant contribution to the understing
of consciousness.
Each proposal must involve at least three partners from three different
countries. Support will be available for a project of three to four years,
starting in autumn 2006. Closing date for outline proposals is 15 September.
Successful applicants will be invited on 1 November 2005 to submit full
proposals.
Please go to www.esf.org/cncc, where you will find the text of the Call,
practical information, and national and international contact details and
where you can subscribe to the CNCC mailing list and Forum. For all queries
and further information, write to [log in to unmask]
Each proposed project should help to address questions such as the
following:
1. Conceptual and methodological challenges
How do empirical and conceptual elements interact in the study of
consciousness?
If one of the truly characteristic features is its subjective nature, how
can it be opened to intersubjective validation?...
2. Metaphysics and phenomenology of consciousness
What are the most general features of consciousness and how do we describe
them? To what extent is the selection of such features culturally invariant?
..
3. The sense of self
What do words like "I" or "you" refer to? What is a self? Is it a social and
cultural construct? ...
4. Consciousness and emotion
What are the characteristic marks of moods and emotional experience? To what
extent do they have an evolutionary explanation? ...
5. Norms and abnormalities in the study of the consciousness
How can the study of pathological and other non-standard cases of conscious
experience enrich our insight into the nature and functioning of the
consciousness? ...
6. The phylogenetic, ontogenetic and historical development of consciousness
Does consciousness have an evolutionaly relevance? What are the evolutionary
percursors to human consciousness? ...
7. Consciousness and language
What is the relation between consciousness and language? Does the use of
language essentially involve consciousness?...
Should you or colleagues have any questions in relation to the call, please
do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards
Claudia
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Dr Claudia Whittle
Research Development Manager
EU & international funding programmes
Research Support & Development Office
Direct line: 01895 266207
Extension: 66207
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