Society for Philosophy and Psychology

PROGRAM OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, 1979



FRIDAY, APRIL 13

9:00- 9:30 Registration: New York University Medical Center
Alumni Hall
550 First Avenue
$10.00 for Members
$15.00 for Non-Members

9:30-12:00 Symposium on Consciousness and the Brain

Moderator: Michael Buckner, New York University Medical Center

Speakers:

Michael Gazzaniga, Cornell University Medical College

Wade Savage, University of Minnesota

David Rosenthal, Lehman College, C.U.N.Y.

Zenon Pylyshyn, University of Western Ontario

12:00- 2:00 Lunch

2:00- 4:00 Contributed Papers Session: Philosophical Issues in Cognitive Pshychology

Moderator: Barbara V.E. Klein, Yale University

Speaker: William E. Smythe, University of Toronto
The Analogical/ Propositional Debate about Mental Representation: A Goodmanian Analysis
Commentator: Robert Sternberg, Yale University

Speaker: Janet Caplan, The Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.
(co-author, Virginia Valian, The Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.)
A Case Study in the Philosophy of Cognitive Psychology: Syllogistic Reasoning
Commentator: Steven Kosslyn, Harvard University

4:00- 6:00 Workshops

6:00- 7:00 Social Hour



SATURDAY, APRIL 14


9:00-11:30 Symposium on Concepts and Categorization

Moderator: Robert Matthews, Rutgers University

Speakers: Eleanor Rosch, University of California - Berkeley

Alvin Goldman, University of Michigan

Richard Grandy, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill

11:30- 1:30 Lunch

1:30- 3:30 Symposium on Animal Cognition and Communication

Moderator: Virginia Valian, The Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.

Speakers:

Donald Griffin, Rockefeller University

Robert L. Arrington, Georgia State University

Stephen Schiffer, University of Southern California

3:30- 5:30 Workshops

5:30- 6.30 Business Meeting



SUNDAY, APRIL 15



9:30-12:30 Symposium on Methodological Solipsism

Moderator: Ned Block, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speakers:

Jerry A. Fodor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Searle, University of California - Berkeley

Richard Boyd, Cornell University

Eric Wanner, Harvard University



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