Dr P.M.S. Hacker - Recent Conference Papers

APA Eastern division, 28^th December 2005:

Authors meet critics: Max Bennett and Peter Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience

Critics: D. Dennett and J.R. Searle

‘Reply to Professor Dennett and Professor Searle’ (with Max Bennett) View pdf

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British Society for the Philosophy of Education, 31 March 2006 at New College, Oxford.

Plenary Address entitled: "Human Beings: Minds and Bodies".

At the Proceedings of the 29^th International Wittgenstein Symposium,

a plenary lecture entitled ‘Human Nature: Minds and Bodies: Wittgensteinian-Aristotelian Reflections’.

At the University of Munich, February 2006,

in a series on reductionism, a lecture entitled ‘Presuppositions of Cognitive Neuroscience’

At the University of Santa Cruz, California, June 2007

For a conference on Wittgenstein and philosophy of psychology, a paper entitled ‘Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology: Methodological reflections’

At the University of Leipzig, September 2007

For a conference on Wittgenstein and science, a paper entitled ‘The relevance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology to the psychological sciences’.

At Fifth International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience at Marmaris, Turkey, May 2008

paper entitled ‘What Philosophy can do for Neuroscience’.

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