Experience, Concepts, and Agency

This third edition of the International Conference on Natural Cognition brings together philosophers and psychologists to discuss experience, concepts, and their relationship to agency.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- automatic and controlled processes in agency and potential connections to responsibility and freedom

- evolutionary perspectives on agency

- mental representations

- experience and the process of formation of concepts

- conceptual vs. non-conceptual mental content

- phenomenal aspects of cognition

- the role of experience in relation to agency

- cognitive processes connecting perception to action

- perception and introspection

- abnormal experiences

- perception, imagination, and actions​

The conference is addressed to faculties, researchers, graduate students, as well as undergraduate students from disciplinary areas such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology, ethics, metaethics, cognitive psychology, experimental psychology, cognitive sciences.

Scientific committee:

Nevia Dolcini (University of Macau)

Davood Gozli (University of Macau)

Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University)

Neil Sinhababu (Singapore National University)

Organizing Committee:

Nevia Dolcini (University of Macau)

Veronica Valle (University of Macau)

Liu Yue (University of Macau)