The Parmenides Foundation started its activities with staging a series of international workshops on the topic of thinking with the aim to evoking and fostering dialogue and collaboration between researchers from a wide range of disciplines. The organising principle for these meetings has been the credo that a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere supports the openness and creativity needed for overcoming disciplinary boundaries and jointly breaking new ground.
Parmenides workshops have quickly sparked a lot of interest in the scientific community and succeeded to establish an unique style of their own. With inspiring locations and formats, their relatively small scale (in terms of people involved) and casual settings they have been facilitating an ideal platform for focusimg on their topics, and opening up and exploring new directions in research on thinking.
To date we organized 19 international, multi-disciplinary workshops to explore key issues such as the neural correlates of thinking and their dynamics, consciousness, perception, the relation of thinking and language, visual thinking, metaphor and analogy, or the phylo- and ontogenetic development of thinking sklills.
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