SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

2003
The View from the West Pole

NOTE: THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN THE BAXTER HALL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING ON THE CAMPUS OF THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Wednesday, June 18

3-5 p.m. Registration - Baxter Hall South Entrance

4-7 p.m. Special Panel Discussion: Teaching SPP: Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy

Workshop Panel: George Graham (Wake Forest) & The Inquiry Team (Peter Bradley, William Bechtel, and Adele Abrahamsen)

7:30 p.m. Opening reception hosted by Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences - Athenaeum (Caltech Faculty Club) west patio

Thursday, June 19

8:45 a.m. Registration, book display, coffee & rolls - Ramo Auditorium

9:00-11:45 a.m. Invited Symposium I: Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Chair: Kathleen Akins (Simon Fraser University)
  1. "Brain mechanisms for generating social knowledge"
    Speaker: Ralph Adolphs (Neuroscience, Bioscience, and MSTP Programs, Univ. of Iowa)
  2. "Frontoinsular cortex: the evolution in apes and humans of a system linked to social cognition"
    Speaker: John Allman (Biology, Caltech)
  3. "Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Illness"
    Speaker: Jeffrey Poland (Dept. of History, Philosophy, and Social Science, Rhode Island School of Design)

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch break - see recommendations in folder

1-4 p.m. Contributed sessions A and B

A: Mental Representational Content - Baxter 25
Chair: Amy Kind (Claremont-McKenna College)
  1. "Knowledge-How and Knowledge-That"
    Speaker: Gabriel Love (Tufts University)
    Commentator: Peter Mandik (William Paterson University)
  2. "The Uninviting Room: Representation without Content"
    Speaker: Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston)
    Commentator: Martin Hahn (Simon Fraser University)
  3. "Why Nonconceptual Content Can't Be Immune To Error Through Misidentification (And Why That's Important)"
    Speaker: Roblin R. Meeks (City University of New York Graduate Center)
    Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
B. Consciousness: Two Questions and a Puzzle - Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair: Owen Flanagan (Duke University)
  1. "Is Conscious Will an Illusion?"
    Speaker: Jing Zhu (University of Waterloo)
    Commentator: Tom Polger (University of Cincinnati)
  2. "When does a correlation count as an explanation?"
    Speaker: Ilya Farber (George Washington University)
    Commentator: Robert N. McCauley (Emory University)
  3. "A Puzzle About Perception"
    Speaker: Andy Egan & James John (MIT)
    Commentator: Donald Jones (University of Central Florida)

4-4:30 p.m. Coffee break - South end of Baxter Hall

4:30-6 p.m. Invited Speaker #1: The Stanton Prize Winner - Baxter Lecture Hall

Chair: Michael P. Lynch (Connecticut College)
"Sentimental Thoughts: The Role of Emotion in Moral Concepts"
Speaker: Jesse Prinz, (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

6-8:00 p.m. Poster session and reception - Dabney Lounge and Gardens

Open Bar, Refreshments
See the list of presenters and titles at the end of the program.

Friday, June 20

8:45 a.m. Registration, book display, coffee & rolls - South end of Baxter Hall

9-11:45 a.m. Invited Symposium II: Color Perception

Chair: Jonathan Cohen (Dept. of Philosophy, UCSD)
  1. "Neural Transformations from Quanta to Hue"
    Speaker: John S. Werner (Dept. of Ophthalmology & Section of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior, University of California, Davis)
  2. "A green thought in a green shade."
    Speaker: C. L. Hardin (Dept. of Philosophy, Syracuse University)
  3. "Color Perception and Misperception"
    Speaker: Alex Byrne (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT)

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch break - see recommendations in folder
Executive Committee Lunch - Hayman Lounge, Athenaeum (Caltech Faculty Club)

1-2:30 p.m. Invited Lecture 2

Chair: Steven Quartz (Philosophy, Caltech)
"A Framework for Consciousness"
Speaker: Christof Koch (Biology, Caltech)

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee break - South end of Baxter Hall

2:45-5:45 p.m.: Contributed sessions C and D

C. Compositionality and the Constituents of Thought - Baxter 25
Chair: Karsten Steuber (College of the Holy Cross)
  1. "Reverse Compositionality"
    Speaker: Philip Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis)
    Commentator: Terence Parsons (UCLA)
  2. "On Failing to Explain Compositionality"
    Speaker: Daniel A. Weiskopf (Washington University in St. Louis)
    Commentator: William Ramsey (Notre Dame)
  3. "Concepts Are Not a Natural Kind"
    Speaker: Edouard Machery (Universite de Paris-Sorbonne/Institut Jean-Nicod)
    Commentator: Michelle Montague (Univ. of California, Irvine)
D. Multiple Realizability and Mind/Brain Metaphysics - Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair: Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College)
  1. "Multiple Realization, Meet Molecular Neuroscience"
    Speaker: John Bickle (University of Cincinnati)
    Commentator: Valerie Hardcastle (Virginia Tech)
  2. "The metaphysics of realization, multiple realizability and the special sciences"
    Speaker: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
    Commentator: Sara McGrath (College of the Holy Cross)
  3. "Why Neuroscience Supports Nonreductive Physicalism: A Reply to Bechtel and Mundale"
    Speaker: Carrie Figdor (CUNY Graduate Center)
    Commentator: Jennifer Mundale (University of Central Florida)

5:45-6:00 p.m. BREAK

6:00-7:30 p.m. Presidential lecture

Chair: President-elect, Frank C. Keil (Psychology, Yale University)
"Keeping Our Eye on the Ball"
Speaker: President Barbara Von Eckardt (Dean of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design)

7:30-9:30 p.m. Banquet - Dabney Gardens

Saturday, June 21

8:45 a.m. Registration, book display, coffee & rolls - South end of Baxter Hall

9-11 a.m. Contributed sessions E and F

E. Animal Minds - Baxter 25
Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  1. "Non-Human Animal Thought, Language, and Social Externalism"
    Speaker: Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki (Ohio University)
    Commentator: Brandon Towl (Washington University in St. Louis)
  2. "What Mice Can Do: Affordances in neuroscience research"
    Speaker: Tony Chemero & Charles Heyser (Franklin and Marshall College)
    Commentator: Colin Allen (Texas A&M)
F. Language Development Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair: Peter Ross (Cal-Poly, Pomona)
  1. "The Cyclical Ontogeny of Ontology: An Integrated Developmental Account of Object and Speech Categorization" · Winner of 2003 William James Prize for best graduate student paper
    Speaker: Reese M. Heitner (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
    Commentator: David Moore (Pitzer College)
  2. "The Role of Intentions in Early Linguistic Development"
    Speaker: J. Robert Thompson (Washington University in St. Louis)
    Commentator: Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside)

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Invited Lecture 3

Chair: Dominic Murphy (Philosophy, Caltech)
"The problem of perceptual presence"
Speaker: Alva Noë (University of California, Santa Cruz)

12:30-1:45 p.m. Lunch break - see recommendations in folder

1:45-4:45 p.m. Invited Symposium III: Linguistic Nativism: The State of the Debate

Chair: Fiona Cowie (Philosophy, Caltech)
  1. "Varieties of Nativism"
    Geoffrey Pullum (Dept. of Linguistics, UCSC) and Barbara Scholz (Dept. of Philosophy, San Jose State U.)
  2. "Second Generation Poverty of Stimulus Arguments"
    Speaker: Paul M Pietroski (Depts. of Philosophy & Linguistics, Univ. of
    Maryland, College Park
  3. "Language learning: How far can you get with the input?"
    Speaker: Jeffrey Elman (Dept. of Cognitive Science, UCSD)

4:45-5:45 p.m. Business meeting

END OF CONFERENCE

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Thursday evening, 6-8 p.m.)

  1. "Folk Psychology is Not a Predictive Device," Kristin Andrews (York University)
  2. "The Grounds for Naming a Fallacy," Sharon Armstrong (La Salle University)
  3. "Core Physical Knowledge and the Marks of Thought," Sara Bernal (Rutgers University)
  4. "Churchland-style concepts: compositionality and the binding problem," David Byrd (University of California, Davis)
  5. "Actions, Decisions, and the Self," Mary Clayton Coleman (Bard College)
  6. "Why Nothing Mental is Just in the Head," Justin C. Fisher (Univeristy of Arizona)
  7. "Causal Closure Principles and the Exclusion Argument," Robert K. Garcia (University of Notre Dame)
  8. "The Fiction of Phenomenal Intentionality," Nicholas Georgalis (East Carolina University)
  9. "What is what it's like?" John Kulvicki (Washington University in St. Louis)
  10. "Explaining the linkage between visual experience and visuomotor activities grounded on the notion of deictic codes," Daniel Hsi-wen Liu (Providence University)
  11. "Programs, Flowcharts, and Psychological Explanation," Martin Roth (UC Davis)
  12. "Singular thought, nonconceptual content, and functional roles," Susana Schellenberg (University of Pittsburgh)
  13. "Functionalism, Mental Causation, and the Problem of Analytically Specified Effects," Robert D. Rupert (Texas Tech University)
  14. "How not to be an Epiphenomenalist," Chase B. Wrenn (University of Alabama)