Month: April 2022

The Chair of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy invites you to a two-day international scientific symposium The People We End Up Being: Art, Ethics and Agency. The symposium is dedicated to the research of ethical segments of art and artistic production, issues of moral transformation through art and problems of immoral art.

Keynote speakers: Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland), James Harold (Mount Holyoke College), A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois) and Gregory Currie (University of York).

The symposium is held in a hybrid model within the activities of the Croatian Science Foundation project UIP-2020-02-1309 Aesthetic education through narrative art and its importance for the humanities (https://aetna.uniri.hr/) according to this program.

We invite you to a mini symposium entitled”Computational and Biological Approaches to Psychopathology ” . The mini symposium will take place on Tuesday 26 APRIL 2022 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.

The program of the workshop can be accessed here: Computational and biological approaches to psychopathology

Our guest speaker will be Sam Wilkinson (University of Exeter). On Tuesday 26 APRIL 2022 he will give a talk entitled “Basic Control in Cognition and Psychopathology: A Predictive Processing Perspective“.

On Wednesday 27 APRIL 2022 Sam will give a talk entitled “Humean Theory of Motivation and Predictive Coding“.