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The Colloquium
Inner speech also referred to as the little voice in the head” or “thinking in words” is a topic of relevance in theoretical considerations, empirical investigations as well as clinical and educational applications studied in philosophy, neuroscience, education and psychology.
For this reason, we are pleased to announce the Inner Speech Online Colloquium, which brings together experts from different disciplines to discuss various aspects of inner speech.
Schedule
| Speaker | Date | Time (CET) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hélène Lœvenbruck | 4/11/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Condensation, Dialogality, Intentionality and Agency in various endophasia situations: aphantasia, voice hearing, rumination, aphasia, Augmentative and Alternative Communication |
| Alain Morin | 5/16/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Part 1: Inner speech involvement in self-processes: Rationale, evidence, dissenters, and applications. Part 2: Inner speech involvement in free will |
| Johanne Nedergaard | 6/27/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | The absence of an Inner Voice: Reports, Experience, and Consequences |
| Tom Frankfort | 7/18/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | What kind of thing is a thought? |
| Famira Facy | 8/23/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Is it normal to talk to yourself? Insights from archival and personality studies |
| Daniel Gregory | 9/19/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | What are words? And are there any in inner speech? |
| Elmar Unnsteinsson | 10/17/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | tba |
| Antonio Scarafone | 11/21/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | tba |
| Agustin Vicente | 12/12/24 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Do we think in I- or E-language? |
The Speakers
Hélène Lœvenbruck is a neurolinguist at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France, researching the neural substrates of both external and internal language use in typical and atypical situations (hallucinations, ruminations, aphasia, aphantasia) as well as the acquisition of spoken language.
Alain Morin is a psychologist at the Mount Royal University, Canada. He is known for his work on the role inner speech plays in self-knowledge and self-awareness. His recent research projects pertain to cross-cultural differences in inner speech, as well as the implementation of self-awareness in robots via inner speech.
Johanne Nedergaard is a (psycho-)linguist at the University of Kopenhagen, Denmark, working, inter alia, on how Greenlandic grammar is affected by aphasia. She has worked on the introspective absence of inner speech, called anendophasia, as well as the impact of verbal interference on sports performance.
Tom Frankfort is a philosopher at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, who has investigated whether inner speech is active, reactive or both. Moreover, he has investigated the nature of thought and its relation to inner speech.
Famira Facy is a psychologist at the Mount Royal University, Canada. She is co-researcher and coordinator at the Inner Speech Lab with an interest in how inner speech plays a role in self-related processes such as self-awareness, self-regulation, and theory of mind. Moreover, she is interested in finding applications of inner speech research for industrial organisational psychology.
Daniel Gregory is a philosopher at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He has investigated whether inner speech can be dialogical in the sense in which the notion of dialogue is frequently understood in the philosophy of language and whether all inner speech utterances are actions. Recently he co-authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on inner speech with Peter Langland-Hassan.
Elmar Unnsteinsson is a philosopher at the University College Dublin, Ireland. He has developed an intentionalist theory of reference recently. Concerning inner speech, he has worked on the social epistemology of introspection and the inner speech act of directive utterances, arguing that it can only be sincere if self-directed.
Antionio Scarafone is a philosopher at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany, who works at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. He is interested in prelinguistic communication, common ground in development and communication as well as “mindreading” in infancy.
Agustin Vicente is a philosopher at Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain. His work is versatile, including work on inner speech, unsymbolised thinking, cognitive phenomenology and language use in autistic persons.
