Parmenides Workshop 1  Towards a Taxonomy of Thinking

 

June 30 to July 1, 2001 at Lake Starnberg, Germany

Organizers: Ernst Pöppel, Albrecht von Müller

 
 

Description

The topic of the first three Parmenides workshops was "Taxonomy of Thinking". The goal was to discuss how to develop a classificatory framework of the whole range of cognitive processes that are subsumed under the term "thinking". The invited speakers were asked to clarify what they - from the different perspectives of their respective scientific disciplines - (1) mean by "thinking", (2) how they evaluate the project of a taxonomy of thinking as a framework for a theory of thinking, and to (3) present their proposals of how to approach such a task.

A further topic was the project of designing an experimental paradigm to study different thinking processes using fMRI and EEG.

 

 
 

Participants

  • Bernard Baars, Cognitive Science, Wright Institute, San Diego
  • Per Aage Brandt, Semiotics, University of Aarhus
  • Britta Glatzeder, Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • Ulises C. Moulines, Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Munich
  • Albrecht von Müller, Philosophy, Parmenides Center, Munich
  • Frank Pasemann, Mathematics, University of Jena
  • Rolf Pfeifer, Artificial Intelligence, University of Zurich
  • Ernst Pöppel, Neuropsychology, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich and Parmenides Center, Munich
  • Eva Ruhnau, Theoretical Physics, Human Science Center, University of Munich
  • Kerstin Schill, Computer Science, University of Munich
  • Semir Zeki, Neurobiology, University College of London
 

Talks

  • The history of theories of consciousness and the global workspace theory (Bernard Baars)
  • The architecture of semantic domains – a grounding hypothesis in cognitive semiotics (Per Aage Brandt)
  • What is a taxonomy and what could a taxonomy of thought look like from a logico-epistemological perspective (Ulises C. Moulines)
  • Thinking in mathematics and physics (Frank Pasemann)
  • Towards an embedded taxonomy of thinking (Ernst Pöppel)
  • Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Rolf Pfeifer)
  • Modelling cognitive processes (Kerstin Schill)