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Interactive Mind workshops
Sheffield: 8th-9th April 2005
Edinburgh: 10th-11th June 2005
Sussex 19th-20th July 2005
According to the interactive conception of mind, our minds are shaped by the
details of our gross bodily form, our habits of action and intervention, and
the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which
we are historically, evolutionarily, developmentally, and here-and-now
situated. Intelligent activities such as reasoning, imagination and even
creativity are not (or are not simply) a matter of processing information
internally, but of manipulating and responding to external structures,
sometimes in ways that involve bodily skills as much as mental ones. The
interactive view has been gaining ground recently across a broad range of
academic disciplines. The goal of this series of cross-disciplinary
workshops is to explore the idea in an arts and humanities arena.
The interactive paradigm is already important in various branches of
science. Influential models in artificial intelligence, psychology,
human-computer interaction and other fields suggest that intelligence and
even consciousness depend in subtle and fundamental ways on interactions
with the environment. More recently, many arts and humanities disciplines
have embraced the view. In archaeology, philosophy, linguistics, history,
literary studies, the visual and performing arts, museum studies, feminist
theory, and elsewhere, the interactive mind is beginning to make itself
felt. No one discipline has the intellectual resources to deal with all the
implications of taking the interactive viewpoint. This genuinely
cross-disciplinary idea needs to be explored in a genuinely
cross-disciplinary context. With its emphasis on the development of the idea
within the arts and humanities, this series of workshops will bring together
researchers in the arts and humanities and the sciences to provide just such
a context.
Numbers at the workshops are strictly limited. Anyone interested in
attending should contact the workshop series co-ordinator Mike Wheeler
(Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, [log in to unmask])
as soon as possible. More details about each of the three workshops (venues,
speakers, etc.), is available at:
http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/interactive-mind.php
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