THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN THE CENTRAL ACADEMIC BUILDING (CAB) ON THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH
Registration: 3-5: CAB 269
4-7: Special Workshop: "Exploring Philosophical Psychopathology" CAB 265
Workshop Leaders
George Graham (Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Jeffrey Poland (Psychology, University of Nebraska)
7:30: Opening Reception and BBQ hosted by Rob Wilson (U of Alberta)
11114 University Ave. (15 MINUTE WALK FROM CAMPUS TOWER SUITE HOTEL)
Phone: 780-988-0612
THURSDAY JUNE 20TH
8:45: Registration, Refreshments, Book Display, CAB 269
9:00-12:00: Invited Symposium I: The Unity and Autonomy of the Mind Sciences
CAB 265
Chair: Melvin Woody (Connecticut College)
Louise Antony (Philosophy, Ohio State University)
Still Psychological After All These Years
Mel Goodale (Psychology, University of Western Ontario)
Putting the Mind back in the Brain: The Rise of Cognitive Neuroscience
John Bickle (Philosophy and Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati)
Bridging the cognitive-cellular neuroscience gap empirically: A study combining physiology, modeling, and fMRI
Discussant: Kathleen Akins (Philosophy, Simon Fraser University)
1-4 Contributed sessions A and B
A. Biological Perspectives
CAB 235
Chair: Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati)
Brian Keeley (Pitzer College): Anthropomorphism, primatomorphism and mammalomporhism: Understanding cross-species comparisons
Discussant: Kristin Andrews (York University)
Daniel A. Weiskopf: (Washington University, St, Louis) Ecological Rationality and Internalist Justification
Discussant: Derek Turner (Connecticut College)
Guy Dove (University of Chicago), The Epigenisis of Grammar: Von Baer's Laws of Development and the Acquisition of Language
Discussant: Gary Libben (University of Alberta)
B. Representation
CAB 239
Chair: Michael Dawson (University of Alberta)
Andrea Scarantino (University of Pittsburgh): A Deeper Problem for Dretske's Theory of Informational Content
Discussant: Fred Adams (University of Delaware)
Sam Scott (Carleton University): Saving Conceptual Atomism from Itself
Discussant: Reese Heitner (CUNY Graduate Center)
Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati): The Belief-Desire Law
Discussant: Georges Rey (University of Maryland)
4-4:30 Break
4:30-7:15: Invited Symposium II: The Nature of Pain
CAB 265
Chair: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut)
D. D. Price (Psychology, University of Florida)
Integrating experiential-phenomenological methods and neuroscience to study mechanisms of pain and consciousness
Ken Sufka (Psychology, University of Mississippi)
Darwin's Headache: An Evolutionary Perspective on Chronic Pain
Guven Guzeldere, (Philosophy, Duke University)
Discussant: Murat Aydede (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
8:30-10:30 p.m. Posters and reception, Timms Centre for the Performing Arts (opposite Campus Tower Suite Hotel)
Open Bar
Refreshments
See the list of presenters and titles at the end of the program.
FRIDAY JUNE 21ST
8:45-5: Registration, Refreshments, Book Display, CAB 269
9:00-10:30 Invited Lecture 1: Stanton Prize Winner
CAB 265
Chair: William Ramsey (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Paul Bloom (Psychology, Yale University)
How children learn the meanings of words
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:45: Contributed sessions C and D
C: Realization and Multiple Realization
CAB 235
Chair: Tom Polger (University of Cincinnati)
Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University): The Dimensions of Realization: A Critique of the Standard View
Discussant: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)
Larry Shapiro (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Neural Plasticity and Multiple Realizability
Discussant: Jennifer Mundale (University of Central Florida)
D. Embodied Representation
CAB 239
Chair: Martin Hahn (Simon Fraser University)
Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston): Representations: What Philosophy leaves out and Neuroscience Puts in
Discussant: Natika Newton (Nassau CC)
Margaret Wilson (University of California, Santa Cruz): Motoric "Imitation" as a Form of Embodied Mental Representation
Discussant: Jim Garson (University of Houston)
12:45-2:00 Executive Committee Lunch: Alumni House, 11515 Saskatchewan Drive.
2:00-4:30 Invited Symposium III: Self and Self-Consciousness, Human and Non-Human
CAB 265
Chair: Robert Skipper (University of Cincinnati)
Diana Reiss (Marine Biology, NY Aquarium and Columbia University) and Lori Marino (Neurobiology, Emory)
Mirror self-recognition in dolphins: Implications for the evolution of self-awareness
Colin Allen (Philosophy, Texas A&M)
Looking for self in all the wrong places?
Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke University)
Varieties of Self-Recognition and Self-Representation
4:30-5 Break
5-6:30 Invited Lecture 2:
CAB 265
Chair: Philip Pettit (Australian National University/Princeton University)
Speaker: Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy, Brown University)
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough
6:30-7:30: Business Meeting
CAB 265
SATURDAY JUNE 22ND
8:45-5: Registration, Refreshments, Book Display: CAB 269
9-12 Contributed sessions E and F
E. Pain, Fear and Moral Psychology
CAB 235
Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Luc Faucher (Universite du Quebec a Montreal): Fear and the Focus of Attention
Discussant: Ralph Ellis (Clark Atlanta University)
Eddy Nahmias (Florida State University): Pain Reports as Vital Signs
Discussant: G. Lynn Stephens (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Adina Roskies (MIT): Are Ethical Judgments Intrinsically Motivational? Lessons from "acquired sociopathy"
Discussant: Peggy Des Autels (University of Dayton)
F. Language
CAB 239
Chair: Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo)
Kent Johnson (U.C. Irvine): Impossible Words and Concepts
Discussant: John Kulvicki (Washington University, St. Louis)
Thomas Bontly (University of Connecticut): Modified Occam's Razor: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Parsimony
Discussant: David Sanford (Duke University)
Steven Geisz (Kenyon College): The Primacy of the Spoken Word
Discussant: Brian Cantwell Smith (Duke University)
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00: Invited Lecture 3:
CAB 265
Chair: Karsten Stueber, (College of the Holy Cross)
Alison Gopnik (Psychology, UC Berkeley) and Clark Glymour (Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University)
Causal inference in scientists, computers and children: A computational account of theory formation
3-3:30 Break
3:30-6:00 Invited Symposium IV: Linguistic Relativity
CAB 265
Chair: Sharon Armstrong (Psychology, LaSalle University)
Speakers:
Lila Gleitman (Psychology and Linguistics, U of Penn)
Language is no Mirror of our Thought
Michael Devitt, (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center)
Deference: A Truth in Linguistic Relativity.
Lera Boroditsky (Linguistics, MIT)
How Language Affects Thought
6:15-7:45: Presidential lecture
CAB 265
Speaker: Robert Van Gulick (Philosophy, Syracuse)
8-10 Banquet: The Three Musketeers, 10416 82nd (Whyte) Avenue, Tel: 437-4239
Party to follow at the home of Rob Wilson, 11114 University Ave. 780-988-0612
END OF CONFERENCE
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Thursday evening, 8:30-10:00)
Marko Barendregt, Genetic Explanation and Development: Parity and Emergentism in Behavior Genetics (Free University Amsterdam)
Zsolt Batori, Pictorial Representations, Imagination and Cognition (Rutgers University)
Peter Bradley, On Being a Color (Temple University)
Andrew Brook and Luke Jerzykiewicz, Two Approaches to Consciousness (Carleton University)
Mason Cash, Normativity is the Mother of Intention: Naturalizing Intentionality by Naturalizing Normativity (Dalhousie University)
Carrie Figdor, The Causal Role of Semantics in Computer Models of Mind (CUNY Graduate Center)
Jerzy P. Jarmasz, Object-Based Attention or Attention-Based Perception? A New Model of Visual Attention and Perceptual Organization (Carleton University)
Joshua Knobe, Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: A Reply to Mele (Princeton University)
Susan Schneider, Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases (Rutgers University)
Eric Schwitzgebel, Do People Still Report Dreaming in Black and White? An Attempt to Replicate a Questionnaire from 1942 (University of California at Riverside)
Andrew Sneddon, Apraxia: Models for Wide Psychopathology (University of Calgary)
Brandon N. Towl, Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology, Part II (Washington University in St. Louis)
Virgil Whitmyer, Psychology without similarity (Indiana University)