Consciousness – How do philosophers view it? What does it truly mean? Why have we still not been able to fully understand where it originates from and how our consciousness and awareness function? And how do thinking and consciousness fit into the world that science explains? Can they be reduced to just brain activity? Our next discussion of the Transylvania Lectures series will explore these questions, addressing the philosophical and scientific challenges of understanding the nature of consciousness.  

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Nick Zangwill, Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and Visiting Professor at Lincoln University. He has published three monographs, edited two collections, and published more than 150 articles on moral philosophy, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and other topics. In the UK, he has worked at the universities of Glasgow, Oxford, Durham, and Hull, with visiting positions in at the universities of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Padua, Rome, Warsaw, the Institute of Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa, and in the USA, Brown, Ohio State and Tulane. He is known for his expertise on moral philosophy, especially metaethics, and aesthetics, especially the philosophy of music and visual art. He has also written on metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and logic. 

His partner in discussion will be Reverend Norbert Zsolt Rácz, a graduate of Hungarian Unitarian Church’s John Sigismund College and the Protestant Theological Institute in Kolozsvár/Cluj. His field of interest includes systematic theology, philosophical aspects of religiosity and questions related to the more theoretical side of existence. 

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