Program of the Annual Meeting of
the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
June 5-8, 1997
 New School for Social Research

Program Co-Chairs:
 David Chalmers (University of California, Santa Cruz) and
Carolyn Ristau (Barnard College of Columbia University)

Local Arrangements:
Nick Haslam and Michael Schober (New School for Social Research)

THURSDAY, JUNE 5


 Thursday activities will take place at 65 Fifth Avenue

8:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Book Display (Mezzanine Area)

9:00 am - 12:00noon CONTRIBUTED SESSION: PERCEPTION AND CONTENT
Swayduck Auditorium
CHAIR: Frances Egan (Rutgers University)

SPEAKER: David Sanford (Duke University) Some puzzles about prosthetic perception
DISCUSSANT: Alva Noe (University of California, Santa Cruz)

SPEAKER: Robert Cummins (University of Arizona) The LOT of the causal theory of
content
DISCUSSANT: Fred Dretske (Stanford University)

SPEAKER: Steven Horst (Wesleyan University, CT) Phenomenology and psychophysics
DISCUSSANT: Wade Savage (University of Minnesota)

9:00 am-12:00noon CONTRIBUTED SESSION: INNATENESS
Wolff Conference Room (Rm. 242)
CHAIR: Marica Bernstein (East Carolina University)

SPEAKER: Gary Marcus (University of Massachusetts) Can connectionism save constructivism?
DISCUSSANT: Bill Ramsey (University of Notre Dame)

SPEAKER: Brian Scholl (Rutgers University) Cognitive architecture and cognitive development: Two senses of "surprise"
DISCUSSANT: Elizabeth Spelke (Massachusetts Institiute of Technology)

SPEAKER: Andre Ariew (University of Arizona) Pinker's parsimony: The innateness debate over language acquisition
DISCUSSANT: Robert Matthews (Rutgers University)

1:15 - 4:00 pm INVITED SYMPOSIUM: IMPLICIT COGNITION
Swayduck Auditorium
CHAIR: David Chalmers (University of California, Santa Cruz)
SPEAKERS: Philip Merikle (University of Waterloo)
Larry Jacoby (New York University)
Arthur Reber (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

4:15 - 5:30 pm INVITED LECTURE
Swayduck Auditorium
CHAIR: John Bickle (East Carolina University)
SPEAKER: Patricia Goldman- Rakic (Yale University) The neurobiology of mental representation.

5:30 - 8:00 pm POSTER SESSION, WINE AND HORS D'OEUVRES RECEPTION
Mezzanine Area

POSTER PRESENTERS

Michael Anthony (Haifa University) On the temporal boundaries of simple experiences

Alex Barber (McGill University) Semantic theory and causal/explanatory structure

S.Bringsjord, R. Noel, E. Bringsjord, G. Ginader, C. Viaggi, and J. Daraio (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Explaining phi without Dennett's exotica: Good ol' computation suffices

Jonathan Cohen (Rutgers University) The case against holism reconsidered

John Gibbons (New York University) Truth in action

Glenn A. Hartz (The Ohio State University) How we can be moved by Anna Karenina-- and green slime.

Jason Holt (University of Western Ontario) Blindsight, visual streams, and perception

Alexander Levine (Lehigh University) A potential circularity in the study of conceptual change in childhood

Mimi Marinucci (Temple University) Hume revisited: Skepticism and optimism in contemporary naturalistic epistemology

Maja Mataric (Brandeis University) Studying the role of embodiment in cognition

Natika Newton (New York Institute of Technology) The contradictions of consciousness

David Pitt (University of Nebraska) Nativism and the theory of content

Teed Rockwell (Union Institute) Beyond eliminative materialism: Implications of Churchland's pragmatic pluralism

Peter W. Ross (City University of New York) Finding the errors of projectivist theories of color

Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University) Toward a semantic conception of computation

Paul Skokowski (Oxford University) Hard to believe? Networks and representation

Edward Stein (Yale University) Toward a sophisticated psychological theory of sexual orientation

Michael Strevens (Iowa State University) Theories of artifacts: A neoclassical account

Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) Simulation or interpretation: Is the simulation theory philosophically tenable?

Barbara Von Eckardt and Jeffrey Poland (University of Nebraska) In defense of the standard view


FRIDAY, JUNE 6
Friday sessions will take place at 66 W. 12th Street

8:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Book Display (Room 510)

9:00 - 11:45 am INVITED SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION OF COGNITION
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: Colin Beer (Rutgers University, Newark)
SPEAKERS: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin)
Susan Oyama (City University of New York) Bruce Moore (Dalhousie University)

11:45 am - 1:15 pm EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Orozco Room (7th Floor)

1:15 - 3:15 pm CONTRIBUTED SESSION: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, MODULARITY
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: Robert Remez (Barnard College of Columbia University)

SPEAKER: William Hirstein and V.S. Ramachandran (University of Califronia, San Diego) Identity and familiarity of faces in Capgras's syndrome
DISCUSSANT: Janet Metcalfe (Columbia University)

SPEAKER: Irene Appelbaum (University of Montana) Context and Cognitive Architecture
DISCUSSANT: Ignatius Mattingly (Haskins Labs)

1:15 - 3:15 pm CONTRIBUTED SESSION: CONSCIOUSNESS IN PHILOSOPHY
Orozco Room (7th Floor)
CHAIR: Stuart Silvers (Clemson University)

SPEAKER: Michael Peirce (University of Colorado) Inverted intuitions: Occupants and roles
DISCUSSANT: Terry Horgan (University of Memphis)

SPEAKER: Brie Gertler (College of William andMary) Introspecting phenomenal states
DISCUSSANT: Robert van Gulick (Syracuse University)

3:30 - 4:45 pm INVITED LECTURE
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: Alice Kyburg (University of Wisconsin)
SPEAKER: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Eye movements and spoken language comprehension


4:55 - 6:10 pm INVITED LECTURE
Tishman Auditoruim
CHAIR: Carolyn Ristau (Barnard College of Columbia University)
SPEAKER: Paul Rozin (University of Pennsylvania) Disgust, contagion and preadaptation



SATURDAY, JUNE 7
Saturday sessions will be held at 66 W. 12th Street

8:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Book Display (Room 510)

9:00 am - 12:00noon INVITED SYMPOSIUM: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: David Rosenthal (City University of New York)
SPEAKERS: Ned Block (New York University)
Nicholas Humphrey (New School for Social Research)
Michael Tye (Temple University)
DISCUSSANT: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)

1:15 - 3:15 pm CONTRIBUTED SESSION: CONCEPTS
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)

SPEAKER: Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) Images of identity: In search of modes of presentation
DISCUSSANT: Mark Crimmins (University of Michigan)

SPEAKER: Jesse Prinz (Washington University and University of Maryland) Regaining composure: In defense of prototype compositionality
DISCUSSANT: Luca Bonatti (New York University)

1:15 - 3:15 pm CONTRIBUTED SESSION: CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
Orozco Room (7th Floor)
CHAIR: Jim Garson (University of Houston)

SPEAKER: Ian Gold (Australian National University) 40-Hz oscillation, binding, and visual consciousness
DISCUSSANT: Jochen Braun (California Institure of Technology)

SPEAKER: Bernard Basars (Wright Institute, CA) Consciousness creates global access: Seven Examples and how they relate to personal experience
DISCUSSANT: Owen Flanagan (Duke Unversity)

3:30 - 4:45 pm INVITED LECTURE
Tishman Auditorium
CHAIR: Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
SPEAKER: Gilbert Harman (Princeton University) Moral philosophy meets social psychology: Does virtue ethics commit the 'fundamental attribution error'?

4:45 - 5:45 pm BUSINESS MEETING
Tishman Auditorium

6:00 - 9:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND BANQUET
MIREZI Pan-Asian Bistro and Grill, 59 Fifth Avenue
Presidential Address: Marcel Kinsbourne (New School for Social Research) "The Brains Consciousnesses"



SUNDAY, JUNE 8
Sunday session will be held at 65 fifth Avenue

9:30 am - 12:15 pm INVITED SYMPOSIUM: LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS
Swayduck Auditorium
CHAIR: Robert Gordon (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
SPEAKERS: Susan Carey (New York University)
Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania)
Stephen Schiffer (New York Unveristy)