Symposium: Historical, Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Animal Consciousness

该提案要求资金支持一个题为“动物意识的历史、哲学和经验观点”的研讨会。“研讨会将在丹佛举行的综合与比较生物学学会1999年年会的主持下举行。这个专题讨论会将汇集人类学家，生物学家，哲学家的心理学，以及关于历史和哲学的相互冲突的观点，科学的历史学家和哲学家提出并讨论他们关于历史和哲学的相互冲突的观点科学主张和假设动物感知。参与者是经过精心挑选的，以代表围绕动物意识问题的多方面辩论的各个方面。他们包括许多最杰出和重要的学者和科学家在各自的领域。研讨会的与会者和会议记录的读者将不得不关注科学在处理主观经验时遇到的困难。研讨会将在一场辩论中提出这个问题，使科学家、哲学家和历史学家聚集在一起讨论一个共同感兴趣的话题。

This proposal requests funds to support a symposium entiled "Historical, Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Animal Consciousness." The symposium will be held under the auspices of the 1999 annual metting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology that will be held in Denver. This symposuim will bring together anthropologists, biologists, philosophers of pyscholog, and conflicting views concerning the history and philosophy, and historians and philosophers of science to present and discuss their conflicting views concerning the history and philosophy of scientific claims and assumptions about animal sentience. The participants have been carefully chosen to represent facets of the many-sided debates that surround the issue of animal consciousness. They include many of the most distinguished and important scholars and scientist in their fields. Participants in the symposium,and readers of its proceedings, will be compelled to focus on the difficulties that science has in dealing with subjective experience. The symposium will raise this issue in a debate that brings togather scientists, philsophers, and historians to discuss a topic of mutal interest.