We are pleased to invite you to the Jean Nicod Prize and Lectures 2022 "The Evolution of Experience", which will take place in June !
The 2022 Prize is awarded to Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith (the University of Sydney), one of the main world experts in philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind. He has written six books, including Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award, and Other Minds : The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, which won the Patrick Suppes Prize in 2019. His most recent book is Metazoa : Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.
In ancient Greece, the octopus was already said to be intelligent. Could it be that we are not the only species with an inner self ? And if so, is the octopus consciousness of the same type as ours or not ?
Pr. Godfrey-Smith will offer his theory in a series of 4 lectures in English on "The Evolution of Experience". They will take place in person only and will be subject to availability at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
The Jean Nicod Lectures are funded by the Meyer Foundation for Cultural and Artistic Development and the Fondation CNRS, with the support of the École Normale Supérieure-Université PSL and the EHESS.
More information and detailed programme >
http://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/prix-jean-nicod/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod-2022/article/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod-2022?lang=en&var_mode=calcul