FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

MARCH 31 - APRIL 2, 1978

TUFTS UNIVERSITY




FRIDAY, MARCH 31

10:15-10:30 Welcome and Announcements
President Paul Secord

10:30- 1:00 Symposium on Biological Factors in Social Behavior, Cohen Auditorium

Chair: Michael Buckner, New York University Medical Center

Speakers:

Ned Block, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University
Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University
James Weinreich, Harvard University

1:00- 2:00 Break for Lunch

2:30- 5:30 Contributed Papers, Cohen Auditorium

Chair: Meredith, Wesleyan University, Middletown

Speakers:

John Macnamara, Harvard University, Intentional Acts and Developmental Psychology

William Tunmer and Wesley Hoover, University of Texas, The Development of Causal Reasoning in Children

Daryl Close, Temple Univesity, Geachs Theory of Judgement

Stephen Stich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Autonomous Psychology and the Belier-Desire Thesis

Workshops

2:00- 4:00 Explanation, Alumnae Lounge
Leader: Sylvain Bromberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00- 6:00 Instantaneous Models in Language and Cognition, Jackson Lounge
Leaders: Thomas Roeper and Edwin Williams, University of Massachusetts

5:30- 6:30 Social Hour - Wine and Cheese, Alumnae Lounge
(Included in registration fee)



SATURDAY, APRIL 1

10:00-12:30 Symposium on Approaches to Language, Cohen Auditiorium

Chair: Zenon Pylyshyn, University of Western Ontario

Speakers:

Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerry Fodor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Schank, Yale University
Terry Winograd, Stanford University

12:30- 2:00 Break for Lunch

2:00 - 4:30 Contributed Papers, Cohen Auditorium

Chair: Richard Brandt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Speakers: William Bowerman, University of Kansas
Self-Referent Causal Atttibutions: Conceptual Clarifications and Common Sense

Robert Gordon, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Hedonic Motivation, Rationality, and Adaptation

Workshops

2:30- 4:30 Therapy vs. Social Control: Some Ethical Issues, Alumnae Lounge
Leader: Ruth Macklin, The Hastings Center, Institute of Scoiety, Ethnics, and the Life Sciences

2:30- 4:30 Inference in Perception, Jackson Lounge
Leaders: Robert Schwarz and Carl Zuckerman, Brooklyn College

4:30- 5:30 Business Meeting, Cohen Auditorium

5:30- 6:30 Cocktail Hour - Open Bar, Alumnae Lounge
(Included in registration fee)



SUNDAY, APRIL 2


10:00-12:30 Symposium on Logic and Psychology, Cohen Auditorium

Chair: Susan Carey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speakers:

Christopher Cherniak, Tufts University
Rachel Falmagne, Clark University
Daniel Osherson, University of Pennsylvania