1999 SPP PROGRAM

PROGRAM OF
THE 25th ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF

THE_SOCIETY_FOR_PHILOSOPHY_AND_PSYCHOLOGY

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
JUNE 19-22, 1999

Program Co-Chairs:
Güven Güzeldere (Philosophy, Duke University)
Stevan Harnad (Psychology, University of Southampton)

Local Arrangements:
Ken Taylor (Philosophy, Stanford University)

SATURDAY_JUNE_19
3:00-5:30 Registration
4:00-7:00 Symposium I. "Then and Now"
Chair: Güven Güzeldere (Duke University)

John McCarthy (Computer Science, Stanford University) Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
Roger Shepard (Psychology, Stanford University) Wrestling with the Subjective and the Objective: Psychological Findings and Philosophical Puzzles
Hilary Putnam (Philosophy, Harvard University) Consciousness
Discussant: Daniel Dennett (Philosophy, Tufts University)

7:15-10:30 Reception & Posters

See the list of poster presenters and titles at the end of the program.

SUNDAY_JUNE_20
9:00-5:00 Registration
9:00-5:00 Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00 Symposium II. Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience: Attention and Perception
Chair: David Rosenthal (City University of New York)

Gregory McCarthy (Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University) The Physiology of Face Perception in Humans
Lynn C. Robertson (Veterans Administration Medical Research, Martinez, CA and Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) Parietal Lobes: Attention to Space & Objects
Greg Simpson (Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) The Spatial and Temporal Brain Networks Underlying Attention

Discussant: John Gabrieli (Psychology, Stanford University)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-4:00 Contributed Sessions A & B

A. Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem
Chair: Denise Cummins (University of California, Davis)

William Bechtel (Washington University, St. Louis) and Robert N. McCauley (Emory University) Heuristic Identity Theory (or Back to the Future): The Mind-Body Problem Against the Background of Research Strategies in Cognitive Neuroscience
Discussant: Berent Enç (University of Wisconsin)

Bruce Mangan (University of California, Berkeley) The Fallacy of Functional Exclusion
Discussant: Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University)

Max Velmans (University of London) How to Make Sense of the Causal Interactions Between Consciousness and the Brain
Discussant: Joe Cruz (Hampshire College)

B. Sensation and Perception
Chair: Thomas Metzinger (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg and University of California, San Diego)

Bernard Baars (The Wright Institute) Criteria for Consciousness in the Brain: Methodological Implications of Recent Developments in Visual Neuroscience
Discussant: John Bickle (East Carolina University)

Brian Keeley (Washington University, St. Louis / University of Northern Iowa) Making Sense of Modalities
Discussant: Thomas Polger (Duke University)

Alva Noë (University of California, Santa Cruz) What Change Blindness Really Teaches Us About Vision
Discussant: David Sanford (Duke University)
4:00-4:15 Coffe Break

4:15-5:30 Invited Lecture 1. George Graham (University of Alabama, Birmingham) and Terry Horgan (University of Memphis) Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Chair: Ken Taylor (Stanford University)

5:30-6:45 Invited Lecture 2. George Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy
Chair: Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross)

6:45-8:15 Dinner (on your own)
8:15-10:30 Panel Discussion. 25 Years of SPP: Past, Present, and Future
Chair: George Graham (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)
Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University)
Stevan Harnad (University of Southhampton)
Peter Godfrey-Smith (Stanford University)
Kathleen Akins (Simon Fraser University)

MONDAY_JUNE_21
9:00-5:00 Registration
9:00-5:00 Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00 Contributed Sessions C & D

C. Concepts, Indexicals, and Innateness
Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)

James Blackmon, David Byrd, Robert Cummins, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth (University of California, Davis) Systematicity and the Cognition of Structural Domains
Discussant: James Garson (University of Houston)

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (American University) Two Models of Innateness
Discussant: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)

Jesse Prinz (Washington University, St. Louis) Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Concept Nativism Reconsidered
Discussant: Steven Horst (Wesleyan University)

D. Representation, Qualia, and Pain
Chair: Stuart Silvers (Clemson University)

Stephanie Beardman (Rutgers University) The Choice Between Actual and Rememered Pain
Discussant: Don Gustafson (University of Cincinatti)
William Robinson (Iowa State University) Representationalism and Epiphenomenalism
Discussant: Pete Mandik (Washington University, St. Louis)

Murat Aydede (University of Chicago) Pain Qualia and Representationalism
Discussant: Karen Neander (Johns Hopkins University)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

12:00-1:00 Executive Committee Meeting

1:00-3:00 Contributed Sessions E & F

E. Cognition and Explanation
Chair: Rachel Stewart (Stanford University)

Carol Slater (Alma College) No 'There' There: Ruth Millikan, Lloyd Morgan, and the Case of the Missing Indexicals
Discussant: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

Kristin Andrews and Peter Verbeek (University of Minnesota) Prediction, Explanation, and Folk Psychology
Discussant: Ethan Remmel (Stanford University)

F. Belief and Truth
Chair: Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco)

Lawrence A. Beyer (Stanford University) Do We Believe Only What We Take to Be True?
Discussant: Steven Geisz (Duke University)

Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside) In-Between Believing
Discussant: Irene Applebaum (University of Montana)

3:00-3:15 Coffe Break

3:15-4:30 Invited Lecture 3. Allan Basbaum (Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco) The Neurobiology of Acute and Peristent Pain
Chair: Martin Hahn (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

4:45-6:00 Invited Lecture 4. Stephen Palmer (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) Color, Consciousness, and the Isomorphism Constraint
Chair: Ken Livingston (Vassar College)

6:10-6:45 Reception begins at Banquet location

6:40 William James Prize Award

7:00-8:00 Presidential Address: Brian Cantwell Smith (Indiana University) Requiem for the Computational Theory of Mind

8:00-10:00 Banquet

TUESDAY_JUNE_22

9:00-5:00 Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00 Symposium III. Theory of Mind: Infants, Primates, and Pinnipeds
Chair: Carolyn Ristau (Barnard College)

Alison Gopnik (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) The Evolution of Causal Maps of the Mind
Daniel Povinelli (New Iberia Research Center, University of Southern Louisiana) Toward a new theory of the evolution of human social intelligence: the reinterpretation hypothesis
Ronald Schusterman (Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz) How Animals Classify Friends and Foes

Discussant: Colin Allen (Texas A&M University)

12:00-1:00 Business Meeting

POSTER_PRESENTATIONS (Saturday, June 19, 7:00-10:30PM)

Tim Bayne (University of Arizona) Sole Object View of Bodily Awareness
H. Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) Some Philosophical Problems in Behavioral Genetics
Sanford Goldberg (Grinell College) The Relevance of Discriminatory Knowledge of Content
Daniel Haybron (Rutgers University) The Causal Role of Information in Connectionist Networks
Robert E. Horn (Stanford University), Jeffrey Yoshimi (University of California, Irvine), Mark Deering (University of California, Irvine), and Russell McBride (Alameda College) Using Argumentation Analysis to Examine History and Status of a Major Debate in Philosophy and Psychology
David Hunter (Buffalo State University) Mind-Brain Identity and the Nature of States
Ariel Kernberg (University College, London) Thinking about Squares
Uriah Kriegel (Brown University) Supervenience and Mental Representation
John Kulvicki (University of Chicago) Pictoral Representation and Perception
Justin Leiber (University of Houston) Turing and the Fragility and Insubstantiality of Evolutionary Explanations: A Puzzle About the Unity of Alan Turing's Work with some Larger Implications
Ron Mallon (Rutgers University) The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology
Shaun Maxwell (Queens University, Canada) On the Explanation of Consciousness: Intrinsic Structure and The Hard Problem
Lawrence Roberts (SUNY Binghamton) and Changsin Lee (Microsoft) Problems About Young Children's Knowledge of Intentionality and the Theory of Mind
Teed Rockwell (Union Institute), The Hard Problem is Dead; Long Live the Hard Problem
Peter Ross (California State Polytechnic at Pomona) The Relativity of Color
James Taylor (Bowling Green State University) The Psychology of Alien Desires: Identification and Quasi-Beliefs
Charles Twardy (Indiana Univesity) Causation, Perception, Conservation
Adam Vinueza (University of Colorado) Sensations and the Language of Thought
Jonathan Weinberg (Rutgers University) A Posteriori Concerns About A Priori Intuitions
Josh Weisberg (City University of New York) If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen: A HOT Response to Byrne
Tadeusz Zawidzki (Washington University, St. Louis) Non-Conceptual Pedagogy
Jing Zhu (University of Waterloo, Canada) Simulation and Mind

SATURDAY_JUNE_19
3:00-5:30	Registration
4:00-7:00	Symposium I. "Then and Now" Chair: Güven Güzeldere (Duke University) John McCarthy (Computer Science, Stanford University) Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States Roger Shepard (Psychology, Stanford University) Wrestling with the Subjective and the Objective: Psychological Findings and Philosophical Puzzles Hilary Putnam (Philosophy, Harvard University) Consciousness Discussant: Daniel Dennett (Philosophy, Tufts University)
7:15-10:30	Reception & Posters
	See the list of poster presenters and titles at the end of the program.
SUNDAY_JUNE_20
9:00-5:00	Registration
9:00-5:00	Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00	Symposium II. Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience: Attention and Perception Chair: David Rosenthal (City University of New York) Gregory McCarthy (Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University) The Physiology of Face Perception in Humans Lynn C. Robertson (Veterans Administration Medical Research, Martinez, CA and Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) Parietal Lobes: Attention to Space & Objects Greg Simpson (Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) The Spatial and Temporal Brain Networks Underlying Attention Discussant: John Gabrieli (Psychology, Stanford University)
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-4:00	Contributed Sessions A & B A. Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem Chair: Denise Cummins (University of California, Davis) William Bechtel (Washington University, St. Louis) and Robert N. McCauley (Emory University) Heuristic Identity Theory (or Back to the Future): The Mind-Body Problem Against the Background of Research Strategies in Cognitive Neuroscience Discussant: Berent Enç (University of Wisconsin) Bruce Mangan (University of California, Berkeley) The Fallacy of Functional Exclusion Discussant: Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University) Max Velmans (University of London) How to Make Sense of the Causal Interactions Between Consciousness and the Brain Discussant: Joe Cruz (Hampshire College) B. Sensation and Perception Chair: Thomas Metzinger (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg and University of California, San Diego) Bernard Baars (The Wright Institute) Criteria for Consciousness in the Brain: Methodological Implications of Recent Developments in Visual Neuroscience Discussant: John Bickle (East Carolina University) Brian Keeley (Washington University, St. Louis / University of Northern Iowa) Making Sense of Modalities Discussant: Thomas Polger (Duke University) Alva Noë (University of California, Santa Cruz) What Change Blindness Really Teaches Us About Vision Discussant: David Sanford (Duke University)
4:00-4:15	Coffe Break
4:15-5:30	Invited Lecture 1. George Graham (University of Alabama, Birmingham) and Terry Horgan (University of Memphis) Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Chair: Ken Taylor (Stanford University)
5:30-6:45	Invited Lecture 2. George Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy Chair: Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross)
6:45-8:15	Dinner (on your own)
8:15-10:30	Panel Discussion. 25 Years of SPP: Past, Present, and Future Chair: George Graham (University of Alabama, Birmingham) Patrick Suppes (Stanford University) Stephen Stich (Rutgers University) Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University) Stevan Harnad (University of Southhampton) Peter Godfrey-Smith (Stanford University) Kathleen Akins (Simon Fraser University)
MONDAY_JUNE_21
9:00-5:00	Registration
9:00-5:00	Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00	Contributed Sessions C & D C. Concepts, Indexicals, and Innateness Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara) James Blackmon, David Byrd, Robert Cummins, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth (University of California, Davis) Systematicity and the Cognition of Structural Domains Discussant: James Garson (University of Houston) Muhammad Ali Khalidi (American University) Two Models of Innateness Discussant: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology) Jesse Prinz (Washington University, St. Louis) Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Concept Nativism Reconsidered Discussant: Steven Horst (Wesleyan University) D. Representation, Qualia, and Pain Chair: Stuart Silvers (Clemson University) Stephanie Beardman (Rutgers University) The Choice Between Actual and Rememered Pain Discussant: Don Gustafson (University of Cincinatti) William Robinson (Iowa State University) Representationalism and Epiphenomenalism Discussant: Pete Mandik (Washington University, St. Louis) Murat Aydede (University of Chicago) Pain Qualia and Representationalism Discussant: Karen Neander (Johns Hopkins University)
12:00-1:00	Lunch
12:00-1:00	Executive Committee Meeting
1:00-3:00	Contributed Sessions E & F E. Cognition and Explanation Chair: Rachel Stewart (Stanford University) Carol Slater (Alma College) No 'There' There: Ruth Millikan, Lloyd Morgan, and the Case of the Missing Indexicals Discussant: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University) Kristin Andrews and Peter Verbeek (University of Minnesota) Prediction, Explanation, and Folk Psychology Discussant: Ethan Remmel (Stanford University) F. Belief and Truth Chair: Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco) Lawrence A. Beyer (Stanford University) Do We Believe Only What We Take to Be True? Discussant: Steven Geisz (Duke University) Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside) In-Between Believing Discussant: Irene Applebaum (University of Montana)
3:00-3:15	Coffe Break
3:15-4:30	Invited Lecture 3. Allan Basbaum (Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco) The Neurobiology of Acute and Peristent Pain Chair: Martin Hahn (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
4:45-6:00	Invited Lecture 4. Stephen Palmer (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) Color, Consciousness, and the Isomorphism Constraint Chair: Ken Livingston (Vassar College)
6:10-6:45	Reception begins at Banquet location
6:40	William James Prize Award
7:00-8:00	Presidential Address: Brian Cantwell Smith (Indiana University) Requiem for the Computational Theory of Mind
8:00-10:00	Banquet
TUESDAY_JUNE_22
9:00-5:00	Book Exhibit
9:00-12:00	Symposium III. Theory of Mind: Infants, Primates, and Pinnipeds Chair: Carolyn Ristau (Barnard College) Alison Gopnik (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) The Evolution of Causal Maps of the Mind Daniel Povinelli (New Iberia Research Center, University of Southern Louisiana) Toward a new theory of the evolution of human social intelligence: the reinterpretation hypothesis Ronald Schusterman (Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz) How Animals Classify Friends and Foes Discussant: Colin Allen (Texas A&M University)
12:00-1:00	Business Meeting
POSTER_PRESENTATIONS (Saturday, June 19, 7:00-10:30PM)
	Tim Bayne (University of Arizona) Sole Object View of Bodily Awareness H. Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) Some Philosophical Problems in Behavioral Genetics Sanford Goldberg (Grinell College) The Relevance of Discriminatory Knowledge of Content Daniel Haybron (Rutgers University) The Causal Role of Information in Connectionist Networks Robert E. Horn (Stanford University), Jeffrey Yoshimi (University of California, Irvine), Mark Deering (University of California, Irvine), and Russell McBride (Alameda College) Using Argumentation Analysis to Examine History and Status of a Major Debate in Philosophy and Psychology David Hunter (Buffalo State University) Mind-Brain Identity and the Nature of States Ariel Kernberg (University College, London) Thinking about Squares Uriah Kriegel (Brown University) Supervenience and Mental Representation John Kulvicki (University of Chicago) Pictoral Representation and Perception Justin Leiber (University of Houston) Turing and the Fragility and Insubstantiality of Evolutionary Explanations: A Puzzle About the Unity of Alan Turing's Work with some Larger Implications Ron Mallon (Rutgers University) The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology Shaun Maxwell (Queens University, Canada) On the Explanation of Consciousness: Intrinsic Structure and The Hard Problem Lawrence Roberts (SUNY Binghamton) and Changsin Lee (Microsoft) Problems About Young Children's Knowledge of Intentionality and the Theory of Mind Teed Rockwell (Union Institute), The Hard Problem is Dead; Long Live the Hard Problem Peter Ross (California State Polytechnic at Pomona) The Relativity of Color James Taylor (Bowling Green State University) The Psychology of Alien Desires: Identification and Quasi-Beliefs Charles Twardy (Indiana Univesity) Causation, Perception, Conservation Adam Vinueza (University of Colorado) Sensations and the Language of Thought Jonathan Weinberg (Rutgers University) A Posteriori Concerns About A Priori Intuitions Josh Weisberg (City University of New York) If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen: A HOT Response to Byrne Tadeusz Zawidzki (Washington University, St. Louis) Non-Conceptual Pedagogy Jing Zhu (University of Waterloo, Canada) Simulation and Mind