Registration for the Workshop:

 

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/bases-neurais-da-cognicao-social-ex121004/21008

 

 

 

Description:  The Workshop 'Neural Bases of Social Cognition' innovates by bringing together researchers from complementary areas of the Humanities and Neuroscience, in an effort to unify discourses that can provide a better understanding of issues crucial to current science. Some of the important questions that will be addressed are: (i) the neural basis of empathy, the faculty that underlies our moral social behavior (ii) the neural bases of those cognitive and semantic abilities that engender social organization and allow the understanding of individual roles in society.

 

 

Objectives:  The Workshop provides the participants with a broad overview of how Philosophy can be integrated with Neuroscience. It also provides a forum for discussing academic research carried out by distinct groups in Brazil and Argentina, and allows the presentation and discussion of philosophical theories in the light of some empirical results of recent neuroscientific research. The multidisciplinary dialogue aims to spark research that might in the future be developed in the Laboratory of Experimental Philosophy and Cognition Studies of UNISINOS, and will contribute towards reconciling the advances of the empirical sciences with traditional philosophical theories, investigating the relationship between mind, brain and human social behavior.

 

 

Workshop Program:

 

Thursday, November 21, 2013

 

9:30 AM – Opening Remarks

10:00 AM – Talks

Topic: Meaning in Social Context

Speakers: Social-Brains Research Group members

Research Group at Philosophy UNISINOS – Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia – UNISINOS – São Leopoldo – RS – Brazil.

11:30 AM - Debate

12:30 PM – Lunch

1:30 PM – Lecture:

Topic: Neurônios-espelho e a Teoria da Mente

Speaker: Ms. Adolfo Rodrigues Reis

Neuroscience PhD student – Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências – UFRGS – Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil.

2:30 PM – Debate

3:30 PM – Coffee Break

4:00 PM – Lecture:

Topic: Perceptual Phenomenology

Speaker: Sofia inês Albornoz Stein, PhD

PhD in Philosophy – Professor at Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia – UNISINOS – São Leopoldo – RS - Brazil.

5:00 PM – Debate

6:00 PM - Break

7:30 PM – Mini-course:

Topic: Las Bases Neurales de la Cognición Social

Speaker: Augustín Ibáñez, PhD

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of Laboratorio de Psicologia Experimental y Neurociencias - LPEN – del Instituto de Neurologia Cognitiva - INECO – Buenos Aires - Argentina.

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Debate

 

Friday, November 22, 2013

 

10:00 AM – Talks

Topic: Social Cognition and Emotional Processing

Speakers: Chiron Research Group members

Research Group at Philosophy UNISINOS – Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia – UNISINOS – São Leopoldo – RS – Brazil.

11:30 AM – Debate

12:30 PM – Lunch

1:30 PM - Conference:

Topic: Empathy and Social Cognition

Speaker: Adriano Naves de Brito, PhD

PhD in Philosophy - Professor at Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia – UNISINOS – São Leopoldo – RS – Brazil.

2:30 PM – Debate

3:30 PM - Coffee Break

4:00 PM – Talks

Talks of selected papers submitted by students and other scholars.

5:30 PM – Debate

6:30 PM – Break

7:30 PM – Mini-course:

Topic: Las Bases Neurales de la Cognición Social

Speaker: Augustín Ibáñez, PhD

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of Laboratorio de Psicologia Experimental y Neurociencias - LPEN – del Instituto de Neurologia Cognitiva - INECO – Buenos Aires - Argentina.

8:45 PM – Debate

9:45 PM – 10:00 PM – Closing Remarks