Thursday, May 30

1:00 - 4:00 pm Invited Symposium: Language: Views from the West Pole

Chair: Ken Livingston (Psychology, Vassar College)

Speakers:

Jeff Elman (Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego): Language as a dynamical system

Karen van Hoek (Linguistics, University of Michigan): Syntax as symbol: A cognitive grammar perspective

George Lakoff (Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley): Rethinking philosophy and linguistics: Embodied semantics and language as an adaptive binding system

4:15 - 5:30 pm Invited Lecture

Chair: Miriam Solomon (Philosophy, Temple University)

Speaker: John Flavell (Psychology, Stanford University): The development of children's knowledge about thinking and consciousness

5:45 - 6:45 pm Reception

Friday, May 31

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium: Attention

Chair: Guven Guzeldere (Philosophy and CSLI, Stanford University)

Speakers:

Hal Pashler (Psychology, University of California, San Diego): Attention and cognitive architecture

Patrick Cavanaugh (Psychology, Harvard University): Attention-based visual processes

Steve Luck (Psychology, University of Iowa): Selective attention from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.

12:00 - 1:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting

1:00 - 2:15 pm Invited Lecture

Chair: Robert McCauley (Philosophy, Emory University)

Speaker: Daryl Bem (Psychology, Cornell University): Does ESP exist?: Recent evidence for an anomalous process of information transfer.

2:30 - 5:30 pm Contributed Session: Perception and Cognition

Chair: Carol Slater (Psychology, Alma College)

Speaker: Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, Virginia Tech): Pain
Discussant: Dan Dennett (Philosophy, Tufts University)

Speaker: Melinda Campbell (Philosophy, University of Alabama, Huntsville): Phenomenal qualities, qualia and color appearance
Discussant: Austin Clark (Philosophy, University of Connecticut)

Speaker: Monique Roelofs (Philosophy, University of Maryland): Depiction: Another look at seeing-in
Discussant: Mark Rollins (Philosophy, Washington University)

2:30 - 5:30 pm Contributed Session: Individualism

Chair: Teed Rockwell

Speaker: Ruth Millikan (Philosophy, University of Connecticut and University of Michigan): On swampkinds
Discussant: Peter Godfrey-Smith (Philosophy, Stanford University)

Speaker: J.D. Trout (Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago): Metaphysics, method, and the mouth
Discussant: Irene Applebaum (Philosophy, Washington University)

Speaker: Keith Butler (Philosophy, Washington University): Are computational theories anti-individualistic?
Discussant: Charles Wallis (Philosophy, Dickenson College and University of Rochester)

Saturday, June 1

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Contributed Session: Social Cognition

Chair: Jane Duran (Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Speaker: Denise Cummins (Psychology, University of Arizona): Dominance hierarchies and the evolution of deontic reasoning
Discussant: Keith Holyoak (Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Peggy DesAutels (The Ethics Center, University of South Florida): Types of moral perceiver
Discussant: Alison Gopnik (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Joseph Cruz (Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona): A connectionist argument for the simulation account of third-person mental state attribution
Discussant: Terry Horgan (Philosophy, University of Memphis)

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Contributed Session: Representation in Computational Models of Cognition

Chair: Ken Taylor (Philosophy, Stanford University)

Speaker: Ramon Das (Philosophy, University of Maryland): Two questions about the psychological reality of grammar.
Discussant: Cris Gauker (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Murat Aydede (Philosophy, University of Chicago): If cognition is computational, psychological laws have got to be intentional!
Discussant: Robert Richardson (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Aarre Laakso and Garrison Cottrell (Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego): Cluster correlation: assessing representational similarity between neural systems
Discussant: Paul Churchland (Philosophy, University of California, San Diego)

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 pm Invited Lecture

Chair: Justin Leiber (Philosophy, University of Houston)

Speaker: Amos Tversky (Psychology, Stanford University): Preference and belief

2:30 - 3:45 pm Invited Lecture

Chair: Carolyn Ristau (Psychology, Bernard College of Columbia University)

Speaker: Paul Ekman (Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco): Why we can't catch liars

4:00 - 5:15 pm Invited Lecture

Chair: David Rosenthal (Philosophy, City University of New York)

Speaker: V. Ramachandran (Psychology, University of California, San Diego) The evolutionary origin of Freudian defense mechanisms, laughter, and dreaming: Some clues from anosognosia

5:30 - 6:45 pm Business Meeting

7:00 pm Banquet and Presidential Address

Chair: Marcel Kinsbourne (Psychology, New School for Social Research)

Speaker: William Bechtel (Philosophy, Washington University): Yet Another Revolution?

Sunday, June 2

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium: Non-Symbolic Computation

Chair: David Chalmers (Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Speakers:

Lenore Blum (Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley): Complexity and real computation

Carol Cleland (Philosophy, University of Colorado): Minds, brains, and Turing machines

Tim van Gelder (Philosophy, University of Melbourne): Go with the flow: Cognition without computation

Discussant: Paul Smolensky (Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University)