MEETING: Self and Consciousness: Roots of Humanity?
Gozde Ozakinci
Fourth Rutgers Symposium on Self and Social Identity
April 19-20, 2002
Fiber Optics Lecture Hall
Busch Campus
Rutgers, The State University
"Self and consciousness: Roots of humanity?" is the theme of the Fourth
Rutgers Symposium on Self and Social Identity. Participants from
diverse academic perspectives, including Psychology, Cognitive Ethology,
Sociology, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Media
Studies, will address the following topics: (1) Where we came from --
Self and consciousness in "prehuman" species (are humans really unique?)
and through human history (is there something special about modern self
and consciousness?); (2) Where we are now: Humans as biological beasts
and cognitive creatures -- The brain and mind as biological and
cognitive systems underlying self and consciousness; (3) Where we are
now: Humans as social beings -- The social underpinnings of self and
consciousness, including how self and consciousness emerge in
face-to-face interactions over the course of development and how
societal belief systems impact (and often disturb) the self and
consciousness of individuals; (4) Where we might go -- Where humans will
likely go in the future, including how human selves and consciousness
might be changed by interacting with computers and related electronic
media.
Contact: Richard D. Ashmore, Rutgers, the State University of New
Jersey, Department of Psychology, 53 Avenue E-Tillett Hall, Piscataway,
NJ 08854-8040, (732)445-2635, e-mail: ash...@rci.rutgers.edu; or
visit our website at http://psych.rutgers.edu/symposium/