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)
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)
Chair: Susan Carey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Christopher Cherniak, Tufts University
Rachel Falmagne, Clark University
Daniel Osherson, University of Pennsylvania