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(c) Jeff Coulter with Harold Garfinkel, Mike Lynch and Ann Rawls

Professor Jeff Coulter's Visit to Japan in March 2008

• March 24, 2008
  The program for Tuesday morning has been slightly changed. We will hold a dicussion session on topics related to Monday's talk. We will try to make the session confortable to all participants, including those who could not make it to Monday's sessions.
• March 15, 2008
  The venue has been determined. All the lectures and seminars will be held at Room 1457, which can accommodate 50 people.

Professor Jeff Coulter, from Boston University, will visit Japan in March 2008 and hold seminars at Meiji Gakuin University. These seminars will be sponsored by the Institute for Sociology and Social Work at Meiji Gakuin University. He will also hold some additional lectures during the visit. The topics of the seminars and lectures will be more or less related to his recent book, Brain, Mind and Human Behavior in Contemporary Cognitive Science, co-authored with Professor Wes Sharrock. Anybody interested is welcome. (Aug Nishizaka)

SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION AND CONTACT

It would be very helpful for us to know in advance the approximate numbuer of prospective participants. If you are interested in addending, please send a note to Tomone Komiya at the follwoing address by February 20, 2008:

Do not forget to specify which slot(s) you intend to attend. We will try to accommodate as many people as the capacity of the room allows. If you have any questions about the seminars and lectures, please address them to Aug Nishizaka.

We may ask you to contribute the amount for the materials and other necessary things to organize the seminar/lecture series. Not so much, 1000 yen for each and up to 5000 yen for all, perhaps.

Professor Coulter received Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1975. He has been teaching sociology at Boston University sicne 1974.

Professor Coulter's interest is in the reconstruction of the conception of mind from the sociological, particularly Wittgensteinian-ethnomethodological point of view. He combines the linguistic-philosophical approach, advanced by Ryle and Wittgenstein, and the ethnomedological perspective, by Garfinkel, to investigate the actual uses of mental concepts, sensitive to all the particularities of each current situtation. He conducted long-term fieldwork at psychiatrical sites in UK and Sudan when he was young. His publications include many articles based on the analysis of the actual interaction taperecorded during the fieldwork.

You may want to visit his website: http://www.bu.edu/sociology/fac-coulter.html

Professor Jeff Coulter's main publications

• Approaches to Insanity (John Wiley, 1973).
• The Social Construction of Mind: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Linguistic Philosophy (Macmillan, 1979).
• Rethinking Cognitive Theory (Macmillan, 1983).
• Mind in Action (Polity, 1989).
• Computers, Minds and Conduct (Polity, 1995, with G. Button, J. Lee, and W. Sharrock).
• Brain, Mind and Human Behavior in Contemporary Cognitive Science　(Edwin Mellen, 2007, with W. Sharrock).
• And many articles

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