Location: All sessions will take place in the Law School (Rooms 114, 118, 104,100).

The Law School building is at the corner of Clifton Ave. and Calhoun St. ( in the southwest corner of campus)
 

THURSDAY, JUNE 14

11am-5pm: REGISTRATION (LAW SCHOOL, FIRST FLOOR) AND BOOK DISPLAY (LAW 100)

12:30-3:30pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION A: MENTAL CAUSATION (LAW 114)
Chair: Jane Duran (Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Carl Gillett (Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan)
"Identity Does Not Protect Mental Efficacy)
Discussant: Brendan OíSullivan (Philosophy, Davidson College)

Anthony Newman (Philosophy, MIT)
"Semantic Internalism and the Fight For a Good Cause"
Discussant: Tad Zawidzki (Philosophy, Ohio University)

Paul Tibbetts (Philosophy, University of Dayton)
"The Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Akinetic Mutism, and Voluntary Control"
Discussant: Valerie Gray Hardcastle (Philosophy, Virginia Tech.)

12:30-3:30pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION B: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THEORY (LAW 101)
Chair:  TBA

Whit Schonbein (Philosophy, Washington University)
"Cognition and the Power of Continuous Dynamical Systems"
Discussant: Joe Cruz (Philosophy, Williams College)

Andrew Wilson, (Cognitive Science, Indiana University)
"A Methodological Alternative to the Assumption of Mental Representation"
Discussant: Ken Azaiwa (Philosophy, Centenary College of Louisiana)

Daniel Weiskopf (Philosophy, Washington University)
"Dynamical Systems and Symbolic Thought"
Discussant: Charles Wallis (Philosophy, California State Long Beach)

3:30-3:45pm: COFFEE BREAK

3:45-6:45 pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1: NEURAL MECHANISMS (LAW 114)
Chair and discussant: William Bechtel (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University

Ming Xu (Cell biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Cincinnati Colleger of Medicine)
"Dopamine, Genes and Addiction"

Steven Small (Neuroscience, University of Chicago)
"The Addiction of Brain Localization for Language: Time for Detox"

Carl Craver (Philosophy, Florida International University)
"Mechanism as a Working Hypothesis"

8-10pm: Reception and Poster Session (LAW 100)

Posters: (LAW 100)

Mostyn Jones (Philosophy, Washington and Jefferson University)
"Testable Theories of Consciousness"

Michael Cundall (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)
"Autism, Theories of Mind and Metacognition"

Robert Schroer (Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago)
"Are Visual Experiences as Panoramic in Their Detail as They Appear to Be?"

Mark McEvoy (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Program)
"Belief-Independent Processes and the Generality Problem for Reliabilism"

Mark Pestana (Philosophy, Grand Valley State University)
"A Method By Which the Quantitative Essence of Qualitative Experience Can Be Made Evident To Subjective Awareness"

Linda Brakel (Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School)
"Unusual Human Experiences, Kant, Freud and an Associationist Law"

Teed Rockwell
"The Modularity of Dynamic Systems"

Terry Sullivan (Philosophy, University of Utah)
"Why The Mind is NOT Like a Swiss Army Knife: Evolutionary Psychology and the Architecture of the Mind"

Bence Nanay (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)
"The Role of Folk Psychology in the Explanation of the Mind"

Reese Heitner (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Program)
"Brackets and Slashes; Stars and Dots: Understanding the Notation of Linguistic Types"

Roblin Meeks (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Program)
"Thinking Without a Helmut: Thought Insertion and the Nature of Self Consciousness"

Sven Walter (Philosophy, University of Saarland)
"Terry, Terry, Quite Contrary"

Alexander Maeder (Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld)
"Thinking About P"

Mason Cash (Philosophy, Dalhousie University)
"Different Sense of ëRepresentationí in Cognitive Science"

Thomas Stoffregen (Psychology, University of Cincinnati)
"An Epistemology for Multimodal Perception"

Sara Worley (Philosophy, Bowling Greene State University)
"Whether Mind Matters Doesnít Matter"

Thomas Polger (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)
"True Colors, or How to Be Right About Red by Being Wrong About Color"

Bill Wringe (Philosophy, Bilkent University)
"Emotions as Sensations: Putting Intentionality and Phenomenology Back Together Again"

Kristen Andrews (Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University)
"How the Simulation Theory and the Theory Theory Get it Wrong"

Paula Droege (Philosophy, Hartwick College)
"A Speculative Hypothesis"

Abigail Faucher (Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers) and Luc Faucher (Philosophy, Rutgers)
"Growing Memory: Adult Neurogenesis as a Case of Multi-Level Theories"
 

FRIDAY, JUNE 15

9am-5pm: REGISTRATION (LAW SCHOOL, FIRST FLOOR) AND BOOK AND POSTER DISPLAY (LAW 100)

9:00am-12:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION C: VISION AND COLOR EXPERIENCE (LAW 118)
Chair: TBA

Wade Savage (Philosophy, University of Minnesota)
"In Defense of Color Psychophysicalism"
Discussant: Peter Ross (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Douglass Meehan (CUNY Graduate Program)
"Spatial Experience, Sensory Qualities and the Visual Field"
Discussant: Austen Clark (Philosophy, University of Connecticut )

Martin Hahn, (Philosophy, Simon Fraser University)
"Seeing in Colour: A New Perspective"
Discussant: Robert Van Gulick (Philosophy, Syracuse University)

9:00am-12:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION D: ISSUES IN COGNITIVE EXPLANATION (LAW 104)
Chair: Jeffrey Poland (Psychology, University of Nebraska)

David Beisecker (Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
"Functionalization and Folk Psychology: How Mental states Earn Their Keep"
Discussant: Stuart Silvers (Philosophy, Clemson University)

Anthony Chemero (Scientific and Philosophic Studies of Mind, Franklin Marshall College) and
Ravi Jonnal (Cognitive Science, Indiana University)
"Of Talking Lions, Simulated Creatures, and Cognitive Ethology"
Discussant: Colin Allen (Philosophy, Texas A&M)

Robert Wilson (Philosophy, University of Alberta)
"Two Views of Realization"
Discussant: Barbara von Eckardt (Psychology and Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

12:00-1:30: EXECUTIVE LUNCH MEETING (TERRACE ROOM, FACULTY CLUB)

1:30-4:30: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2: MORAL PSYCHOLOGY (LAW 118)
Chair: Alvin Goldman (Philosophy, University of Arizona)

James Blair (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London)
"The Role of the Distress of Victims in the Development of Morality"

Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, College of Charleston)
"Norms With Feeling: The Role of Affect in Moral Judgment"

John Doris (Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz)
"Empirical Perspectives on (Perspectives on) Responsibility"

4:30-4:45: COFFEE BREAK

4:45-6:30: INVITED LECTURE 1: (LAW 118)
Chair: Karsten Stueber (Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross)

Speaker: Richard Nisbett (Psychology, University of Michigan)
"Culture and Systems of Thought: Eastern Holism and Western Analysis"

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

9am-5pm: REGISTRATION (LAW SCHOOL, FIRST FLOOR); BOOK AND POSTER DISPLAY (LAW 100)

9:00am-12:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION E: INTUITIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY (LAW 114)

Chair: William Ramsey (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)

Joshua Greene (Philosophy, Princeton)
"A Psychological Perspective on Nozickís Experience Machine and Parfitís Repugnant Conclusion"
Discussant: George Graham (Philosophy, University of Alabama , Birmingham)

Joshua Knobe (Philosophy, Princeton)
"The Notion of ëBeing Yourselfí in the Psychological Study of Moral Reasoning"
Discussant: Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke University)

Jonathon Weinberg (Philosophy, Rutgers)
"Conceptual Analysis and the Diversity of Intuitions"
Discussant: Robert Kraut (Philosophy, Ohio State)

9am-12:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION F: CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTROSPECTION (LAW 104)

Chair: David Rosenthal (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate School)

Murat Aydede (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
"Information and Introspection"
Discussant: Leopold Stubenberg (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)

Joshua Weisberg (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Program)
"The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of Consciousness"
Discussant: TBA

Eric Schwitzgebel (Philosophy, University of California, Riverside)
"How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Imagery"
Discussant: Peter Mandik (Philosophy, William Patterson University)

1:30pm-3:30pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3: REASON AND RATIONALITY (LAW 114)

Chair: Sharon Armstrong (Psychology, Central College)

Ralph Hertwig (Psychology, Columbia University)
"The Benefits of Cognitive Limits: More is Not Always Better"

Robert Richardson (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)
"Explaining Simple Errors"

3:30pm-3:45pm: COFFEE BREAK

3:45-5:15: INVITED LECTURE 2: STANTON PRIZE LECTURE (LAW 114)

Chair: Paul Smolensky

Speaker and Stanton Prize Recipient: Kathleen Akins (Philosophy, Simon Fraser)
"On Colour"

5:30pm-6:30pm: ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (LAW 114)

7:00pm-10:30pm: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND BANQUET (FACULTY CLUB)

Chair: Robert Van Gulick (Philosophy, Syracuse University)

Speaker: Paul Smolensky (Cognitive Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University)
"The Harmonic Mind"

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

9:00am-1:00pm: BOOK DISPLAY (LAW 100)

9:00am-12:30: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4: BEYOND NATIVISM

Chair and discussant: Steve Quartz (Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech)

"Beyond Nativism ó and Back? Multiple Brain Systems, Multiple Acquisition Strategies"

Kathy-Hirsch Pasek (Psychology, Temple University)
"Breaking the Language Barrier: An Integrative Account of Early Word Learning"

Olaf Sporns (Psychology and Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Indiana University)
"Steps Towards a Synthetic Psychology: neural Modeling and the Emergence of Behavior"

Tom Schultz (Psychology, McGill University)
"A Generative Connectionist Approach to Psychological Development"