Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (Eng. " association for the scientific study of consciousness " ), founded in 1994, is a short ASSC association of scientists from different disciplines and philosophers with the goal of exploring consciousness. 2006, continued the Board of the Association as follows: Daniel Dennett (President), Stanislas Dehaene, Michael Gazzaniga, Geraint Rees, Axel Cleeremans, Alva Noë, Thomas Metzinger, Susana Martinez - Conde and Patrick Wilken.

The stated aim of the society is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in the context of various disciplines such as cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines of the natural sciences and the humanities, the and deal with the nature of the function the underlying mechanisms of consciousness deal ( "to Encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness" ).

As members ( "full members" ) only PhDs are accepted with sustained and significant contributions to the scientific study of consciousness. There is also the possibility of a co-opted member ( " affiliate member" ) to be, and thus to obtain a discount on the registration fees for the annual conference, as well as discounts on some scientific publishers.

The association gives the annual doped to 1000 U.S. dollars William James Prize for outstanding empirical or philosophical contributions of young scientists for research on consciousness. The club also has two official journals ( Consciousness and Cognition and psyche) and occasionally acts as a publisher of scholarly books on topics of consciousness research.

The members of the ASSC organize an annual conference since 1997 at different locations. In 2005, the ninth meeting of this kind took place at Caltech in Pasadena, June 2006 was the tenth annual meeting of the ASSC in Oxford instead. The eleventh conference was held in June 2007 in Las Vegas; is planned for 2008, a conference in Taipei.

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