Participants

With increased specialization in professional scholarship, genuine multidisciplinary collaboration has become much more challenging to achieve. While it is encouraging that issues such as 'consciousness' have attracted the attention of thinkers from a variety fields, this unique multidisciplinary environment is not without hazard.

Recently the editors of The Journal of Consciousness Studies have warned readers that, ”there is a serious danger that the emerging multi-disciplinary field of consciousness studies could Balkanise and different groups of scholars will end up ‘circling the wagons’ and talking among themselves.“ As such, the overarching goal of this symposium was to cultivate communication between culturally diverse lines of thought and foster relationships between like-minded individuals. Thus, participants from an array of fields and specialization were invited to participate.

Please use the links on the right side to learn more about specific Mind & Reality participants.