Review of the International Conference “Naturalistic Approaches to Consciousness” 24–25 May 2013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The conference provided an excellent opportunity for interdisciplinary interaction between philosophers, linguists, psychologists and neuroscientists, all united by their interest in a naturalistic approach to consciousness. The key speakers were famous philosophers and scientists, including John Searle, Thomas Metzinger and Konstantin Anokhin. The topics of the reports covered a great variety of issues, ranging from the relation of the ontological subjectivity and epistemic objectivity of consciousness; the study of consciousness and self-consciousness through the phenomena associated with various forms of bodily experience; the search for the conceptual bases for the scientific study of consciousness, the problem of qualia, attention, free will and various aspects of philosophy of psychology.