Schedule

Program Schedule

The Institute has been organized as a series of seminar-style sessions and will meet for ten days over a two-week period. For the first week, the schedule will include one morning and one afternoon session Monday through Friday. For the second week, the same schedule will continue Monday through Wednesday. The last Thursday and Friday morning of the Institute will be scheduled flexibly and devoted to participant presentations. Morning sessions will run from 9:30am to 12:00pm, with a 30-minute break. At the start of each morning session, the directors will briefly outline the guiding questions for the day. Afternoon sessions will run from 1:30 to 4:00 with a 30-minute break. The Institute will conclude with a round table discussion on Friday afternoon, June 26.

Please note: Background readings provide important context for the themes, debates, and research questions explored throughout the Institute. All background readings and supplementary materials are available in the shared Google Drive folder, except for those linked directly beneath the individual presentations listed below.

Sunday, June 14

5:30Registration and Welcome Ceremony at The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room). Direction here.

Monday, June 15

9:00Opening Remarks from the Directors
9:30Dan Zahavi, Self-consciousness, Self-knowledge, and Knowledge of and with Others
Background Reading: Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness
12:00Lunch break
1:30Thompson, Only Life I

Tuesday, June 16

9:30Das, Udayana on Attention and Self-Knowledge
12:00Lunch break
1:30Marya Schechtman, Memory, Technology, and Past Selves

Wednesday, June 17

9:30Chirimuuta, Are There Real Patterns? Agency and Meta-cognition
12:00Lunch break
1:30Ziporyn, Consciousness as Filtering Down of Prior Superdeterminate Plenum: A Neo-Tiantai Approach to the Hard Problem and the Necessary Contingency of Selfhood
Background Reading: Tiantai Buddhism

Thursday, June 18

9:30Maria Heim, The Pāli Abhidhamma on Consciousness and Self-Knowledge
12:00Lunch break
1:30Christian Coseru, Self-knowledge and the Elusive Subject
Background Reading: Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy

Friday, June 19

9:30Noë, Only Life II
Background Reading: Rage against the machine
12:00Lunch break
1:30Renz, Socratic Self-Knowledge and the Problem of Idiocy

Saturday, June 20

TBA

Sunday, June 21

Hike in Tilden Park

Monday, June 22

9:30Coseru, Self-Knowledge, Self-Deception, and the Prospect of Metacognitive AI
Background Reading: Claude’s Constitution
12:00Lunch break
1:30Chalmers, What We Talk to When We Talk to Language Models?

Tuesday, June 23

9:30Ikegami, From Collectives to Selves: Agency, Self-Recognition, and Ecological Alignment
12:00Lunch break
1:30Sharf, On the Radical Asymmetry of First- and Third-Person Perspectives: Self-Location, Experience, and Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, June 24

9:30Vallor, Moral Deskilling and Moral Dispossession in the Age of AI
12:00Lunch break
1:30Thompson & Noë, Only Life III

Thursday, June 25

9:00Remarks from the Directors
9:30Participants’ Presentations
12:00Lunch break
1:30Participants’ Presentations

Friday, June 26

9:30Participants’ Presentations
12:00Lunch break
2:00Round Table Discussion and Award Presentations
5:30Farewell Party at the Women’s Faculty Club

Daily Schedule

Time Session
9:30–10:30 Seminar Presentation
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Seminar Discussion
12:00–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:30 Seminar Presentation
2:30–3:00 Coffee Break
3:00–4:00 Seminar Discussion
Evening Optional reading group or social event

Thematic Arcs

  • The Nature of First-Person Authority
  • The Transparency Problem
  • The Problem of Minimal, Pre-Reflective, and Reflexive Awareness
  • Self-deception and the Limits of Self-knowledge
  • Methods and Approaches Toward Metacognitive AI
  • The Problem of Self-monitoring Across Perception, Reasoning, and Action
  • Self-Knowledge, Moral Self-Cultivation, and Moral Deskilling
  • Artificial Life and the Modelling of Self-organizing Agency