Symposium: Historical, Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Animal Consciousness

本提案要求资助一个题为“动物意识的历史、哲学和经验观点”的研讨会。该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。本次研讨会将汇集人类学家、生物学家、心理学哲学家和关于历史和哲学的相互冲突的观点，以及历史学家和科学哲学家，提出并讨论他们关于动物感知能力的科学主张和假设的历史和哲学的相互冲突的观点。这些参与者都是经过精心挑选的，以代表围绕动物意识问题的多方面辩论的各个方面。他们包括许多在各自领域最杰出和最重要的学者和科学家。研讨会的参加者和会议记录的读者将被迫关注科学在处理主观经验方面所遇到的困难。研讨会将在一场辩论中提出这个问题，科学家、哲学家和历史学家将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.