TIM CRANE IN CONVERSATION WITH DESSY GAVRILOVA
SAMSTAG, 26.09.2026 / 17h00
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, SITZUNGSSAAL
The explanation of consciousness is one of the great remaining problems for science. Twenty years ago, The Economist declared that “consciousness awaits its Einstein.“ Yet despite the huge progress in neuroscience during this period, and the wide range of theories that have been offered by philosophers and scientists, agreement on how consciousness should be understood seems to be even further away. How do we get from a scientific knowledge of the interactions between neurons to an understanding of how they produce thought, perception, emotion, and other conscious phenomena? In conversation with Vienna Humanities Festival co-founder DESSY GAVRILOVA, the distinguished British philosopher and Central European University professor TIM CRANE will delve into the “hard problem“ of consciousness.
TIM CRANE is a professor of philosophy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, where he is also Director of Research of the FWF Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis. Crane works in the philosophy of mind and has taught previously at the University of Cambridge and UCL. His books include The Mechanical Mind (1995), Elements of Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013) and The Meaning of Belief (2017).
His website is www.timcrane.com.
© Niko Havranek