Daten zum Projekt
Initiative: | European Platform |
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Bewilligung: | 22.03.2012 |
Projektinformationen
One of the most compelling issues in the cognitive neurosciences has to do with the extent to which investigators should take account of the broader human context in which any experiment on "mental states" inevitably takes place. More specifically, there are live questions regarding how, methodologically, to address: (i) research subjects' own assessments of their mental processes during the course of an experiment, as well as (ii) the "social" nature of all experiments (there is always at least one experimenter and one research subject) in terms of both design and interpretation. The workshop is structured around two overarching questions: (1) Can scientists produce better knowledge of mental states in cognitive neuroscience if they employ experimental designs that: (a) Harness the social relations between experimenter(s) and research subject(s) that underpin all data collection in cognitive neuroscience? (b) Engage research subjects' own conceptualizations of their mental processes within these social, experimental contexts? (2) Can sociologists and historians produce more adequate accounts of social relations when they are both co-producers of, and privy to, laboratory-based techniques in which these phenomena are manifest and measurable as both powers for and limits of neuroscientific entanglements?
Projektbeteiligte
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Felicity Callard, Ph. D.
Max-Planck-Institut für
Bildungsforschung
Berlin
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Des Fitzgerald
The London School of Economics
and Political Science
BIOS Centre
Tower 2
London
Grossbritannien
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Simone Kühn, Ph. D.
University College London
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
& Department of Psychology
London
Grossbritannien
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Joel Krueger, Ph. D.
University of Copenhagen
Center for Subjectivity Research
Copenhagen S
Dänemark
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Josephine Lenssen
Leiden University
MA Philosophy of Psychiatry
XC, Leiden
Niederlande
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Ulla Schmid
Universität Basel
Philosophisches Seminar
Basel
Schweiz
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Dr. Amanda Taylor Aiken, Ph.D.
Durham University
Department of Philosophy
Durham
Grossbritannien