 British Embassy Manila Stephen Lillie is the British Ambassador to the Philippines. Lillie was appointed as Her Majesty's Ambassador to the country in August 11, 2009. Before his current diplomatic post, he served as the director of trade and investment at the British High Commission in New Delhi, India from 2003 to 2006. Lillie graduated with a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University in 1988. Back to top  Australian National University David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, and is the director of the Centre for Consciousness in the School of Philosophy of the same institution. Chalmers works on research areas such as the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, to name a few. He is also a visiting professor at New York University. Back to top  De La Salle University-Manila Napoleon Mabaquiao, Jr. is an associate professor of philosophy at De La Salle University-Manila. He is currently the chair and graduate program coordinator of the Department of Philosophy of the said university. Mabaquiao focuses his research on the philosophy of mind, business ethics, and the philosophy of language. Back to top  University of Bergen Mette Kristine Hansen teaches at the University of Bergen. Hansen is a former visiting student at the Australian National University, and she has presented a number of papers in several international summits including the annual AAP conference. She previously delivered a paper entitled "Is there a Cognitive Phenomenology?” at De La Salle University-Manila in 2009. Back to top  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Catherine Pelachaud is the current director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in LTCI, Télécom ParisTech. Her research interests include embodied conversational agents, multi-modal interfaces, and representation language for agents, to name a few. Pelachaud participated in the elaboration of the first embodied conversation agent system, GestureJack. Back to top  De La Salle University-Manila Arnulfo Azcarraga is the vice chancellor for research at De La Salle University-Manila. He has been a senior research fellow and program manager of the Program for Research into Intelligent Systems at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Azcarraga graduated with a doctorate in computer science from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1993. Back to top  National University of Singapore Homepage Ben Blumson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. Blumson obtained his doctorate degree in philosophy at the Australian National University. In addition, he also holds a graduate certificate in Literary Studies from the University of Melbourne. Blumson does research on the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and philosophy of language. Back to top  Ang Ladlad Partylist Raymond Alikpala is a nominee of Filipino LGBT political party Ang Ladlad Partylist for the upcoming Philippine senatorial elections in 2013. He is the author of the book "Of God and Men," which is his memoir as a gay Catholic Filipino coming out of the closet. Alikpala obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo Law School in 1992. Back to top  Lingnan University  Beloit College Robin Zebrowski is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Beloit College. Aside from cognitive science, she also specializes in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of artificial intelligence, and has competence in applied ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and American philosophy. Zebrowski obtained her doctorate degree in philosophy at the University of Oregon. Back to top For researchers, professors, and graduate students who are interested in presenting a paper during the breakout sessions, kindly submit an abstract and register via our online form. Link NOTE: Please regularly check the talk schedules of our plenary and breakout session speakers above in the conference program. Link |
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