The workshop had six sessions. Each session consisted of a 45-minute main talk, a 10-minute commentary, a 5-minute response, and 40 minutes for Q&A.
Friday, February 20, 2026
8 am Coffee, Light Breakfast Items
9 am Opening Remarks, Joe Gottlieb
9:15 am – 10:55 am
Speaker: Charles Siewert, “Consciousness, Thought, and Self-Expression”
Commentator: Preston Lennon
Chair: Anna Christina Ribeiro
11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Speaker: Olivia Bailey (co-author Rachel Achs), “Making Up Our Hearts”
Commentator: Thomas Byrne
Chair: Amy Flowerree
12:40 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:10 pm
Speaker: Adam Pautz, “Varieties of Physicalism and the Significance of Consciousness”
Commentator: Kenneth Williford
Chair: Joshua Weisberg
4:15 pm – 5:55 pm
Speaker: Bob Fischer (co-author Hayley Clatterbuck), “Model Organisms and the Problem of Other Minds”
Commentator: Peter Zuk
Chair: Thomas Byrne
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Dinner
Saturday, February 21, 2026
9 am
Coffee, Light Breakfast Items
9:30 am – 11:10 am
Speaker: Andrew Lee, “Consciousness Makes Things Matter”
Commentator: Cristina Ballarini
Chair: Luke Roelofs
11:15 am – 12: 55 pm
Speaker: Declan Smithies, A Phenomenal-Attitude Theory of Pleasure”
Commentator: Jacob Berger
Chair: Joe Gottlieb