The Body and Psychosis February 11th, 2023 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » A new movement within Cognitive Psychology, known as 4E Cognition, views thought and behavior as embodied, embedded, enactive & extended. Each of these four strands has a rich (and ongoing) philosophical history. Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bahktin, Vygotsky and others have drawn attention to the role of action and interaction in (in)forming our experience. What do our bodies contribute to qualia, to the phenomenology that seems to mark consciousness for us? How does our embeddedness in a social world with others impact our sense of reality? And what role is played by our constant manipulation of things and interaction with others in anchoring us, not simply the way gravity keeps our feet on the ground, but as a woven fabric creates a world we can inhabit and experience together? Psychosis provides a test case for theories proposed by advocates of 4E Cognition. But, of course, it does as well for other neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers and AI researchers. How is that sense of a shared world disrupted in individuals diagnosed with this condition? How disrupted must it be and in what ways, for a diagnosis to be apposite? Meanwhile, how “shared” is the world, and what does a more or less shared world mean for the ideas, and their expression, that may be found in it? These questions and the many intriguing themes they touch on will be explored in this roundtable. Participants: Elias Dakwar Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Elias Dakwar, MD is an Associate Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a board-certified addiction and general psychiatrist. He has been researching novel treatments for addictions for over a decade, with the support of several grants from the National Institutes of Health. A special focus of his research has been evaluating… read more » George Denfield Neuroscience & Psychiatry Resident Physician, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute. View Papers / Presentations » George Hilton Denfield, IV, MD, PhD, is a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience and psychiatry resident physician at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He completed his BS at Tufts University, concentrating in biopsychology and cognitive science. Dr. Daniel Dennett served as an advisor for his thesis exploring whether and how notions… read more » Vittorio Gallese Professor of Psychobiology, University of Parma Director, Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma Vittorio Gallese MD is a trained neurologist and Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of… read more » Siri Hustvedt Author, Essayist Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as five essay collections, Women, Mothers, Fathers, and Others; A Plea… read more » Gail Weiss Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. She recently served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism (SPEP) and as General Secretary for the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Her previous monographs include Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana U. Press: 2008) and Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge 1999) and she is… read more »
Elias Dakwar Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Elias Dakwar, MD is an Associate Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a board-certified addiction and general psychiatrist. He has been researching novel treatments for addictions for over a decade, with the support of several grants from the National Institutes of Health. A special focus of his research has been evaluating… read more »
George Denfield Neuroscience & Psychiatry Resident Physician, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute. View Papers / Presentations » George Hilton Denfield, IV, MD, PhD, is a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience and psychiatry resident physician at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He completed his BS at Tufts University, concentrating in biopsychology and cognitive science. Dr. Daniel Dennett served as an advisor for his thesis exploring whether and how notions… read more »
Vittorio Gallese Professor of Psychobiology, University of Parma Director, Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma Vittorio Gallese MD is a trained neurologist and Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of… read more »
Siri Hustvedt Author, Essayist Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as five essay collections, Women, Mothers, Fathers, and Others; A Plea… read more »
Gail Weiss Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. She recently served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism (SPEP) and as General Secretary for the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Her previous monographs include Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana U. Press: 2008) and Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge 1999) and she is… read more »
Friends : I’m very much hoping to attend ! Is there a formal registration, or does one merely show-up ? Thank You in advance for a reply. H Reply
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