Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies
| Abbreviation | MCCS |
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| Established | 2009 |
| Purpose | Research in the field of Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness Studies, Free Will and Moral Responsibility |
| Headquarters | Russia, US |
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Vadim Vasiliev, Dmitry Volkov, Robert Howell, Patricia Smith Churchland, Paul Churchland, Derk Pereboom |
| Website | hardproblem.ru |
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) – a scientific organization, which conducts and coordinates domestic and international research on consciousness, the mind-body problem, free will and moral responsibility.
The Center was founded in 2009 at the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University, on the initiative of Professor Vadim Vasiliev and Dmitry Volkov.
Many leading scientists and scholars have visited Moscow State University and other educational institutions of Russia since 2009 at the invitation of the Center for Consciousness Studies: Scott Soames (University of Southern California), a philosopher of language and scholar of analytic philosophy, visitor in 2009; Timothy Williamson (Oxford University), an expert on epistemology, analytic philosophy, and philosophy of language, 2011; John Searle (University of California, Berkeley), deviser of the Chinese Room thought experiment and defender of biological naturalism about the mental, 2011;Daniel Dennett (co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University), philosopher and cognitive scientist, 2012;Jesse Prinz (distinguished professor at the City University of New York), author of works on consciousness, free will, and experimental philosophy, 2014; Patricia Churchland (University of California at San Diego), the US-Canadian neurophilosopher, 2015;Nicholas Humphrey (Cambridge University), psychologist, theorist of consciousness, and discoverer of blindsight in monkeys, 2015; and Derk Pereboom (Cornell University), the author of works on consciousness and free will, 2016.
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