12:00-1:00pm: Lunch Buffet
(for prepaid guests)
1:00-3:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION A: Reductionism and Explanation
Chair: Steven Horst (Wesleyan University)
1) Thomas Polger & Robert Skipper (University of Cincinnati)
"Naturalism, Explanation, and Identity"
Commentator: Janice Dowell (Bowling Green University)
2) Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)
"The Biochemistry of Memory Consolidation and Multiple Realization"
Commentator: Jacqeline Sullivan (University
of Pittsburgh)
1:00-3:00pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION B: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Cognitive Science
Chair: Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University; University of Pittsburgh)
1) Jennifer Cole Wright (University of Wyoming)
"Is Ethics a Skill? Towards a Developmental Account of Ethical Know-how"
Commentator: Richard Garrett (Bentley College)
2) William Seeley (Brooklyn College)
"Naturalizing Aesthetics: Art and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision"
Commentator: Karsten Stueber (Holy
Cross College)
3:00-3:15pm: Coffee Talk
3:15-6:00pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1: Representation in Mind
Chair: Nicholas Georgalis (East Carolina University)
1) Karen Neander (Philosophy, University of California, Davis)
"Content: Why Do We Need It?"
2) Uriah Kriegel (Philosophy, University of Arizona)
"The Primacy of Narrow Content"
3) Michael McCloskey (Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University)
"Representation and Explanation in Cognitive Science"
4) Fred Dretske (Philosophy, Duke University)
Session Commentator
6:00-8:00pm: POSTER SESSION (See below for Titles and Presenters)
and **RECEPTION** (Complimentary
drinks and food sponsored by WFU Philosophy Department and Blackwell Publishing)
8:00pm: Dinner
(for prepaid guests)
9:00am-12:00: CONTRIBUTED SESSION C: Representation and Animal Minds
3) Colin Allen (Indiana University)
"Macaque Mirror Neurons: Detecting Intentions Intentionally?"
Commentator: Jennifer Mundale
(University of Central Florida)
9:00am-12:00: CONTRIBUTED SESSION D: Innateness, Morality, and Evolution
Chair: James Schirillo (Wake Forest University)
1) Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University)
"Innateness Beyond Invariantism & Primitivism"
Commentator: William Ramsey (University of Notre Dame)
2) Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Is Morality Innate?"
Commentator: Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)
3) Tamler Sommers (Duke University; University of Minnesota, Morris)
"The Illusion of Freedom Evolves: How Darwinism Supports an Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility"
Commentator: Christian Miller
(Wake Forest University)
12:00-1:15pm: Lunch Buffet (for
prepaid guests) and Executive Committee Lunch
1:15-3:45pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Chair: Anne Jacobson (University of Houston)
1) Sean Kelly (Philosophy, Princeton University)
"Content and Constancy"
2) Alva Noe (Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley)
"Real Presence"
3) Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, Virginia Tech University)
"Reduction, Phenomenology, and Embodied Cognition:
Perspectives from Medicine and Psychiatry"
3:45-4:00pm: Coffee Talk
4:00-5:15pm: INVITED SPEAKER 1: Stanton Award Winner
Chair: George Graham, SPP President (Wake Forest University)
Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, University of Utah)
"Moral Psychology Psychologized"
5:15-6:15pm: POSTER
DISPLAY and **RECEPTION**(Complimentary
drinks and food sponsored by WFU Philosophy Department)
6:15-8:00pm: PANEL DISCUSSION: Mind and Brain in the Media
Chair: Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University; Florida State University)
Panel Members: Paul Bloom (Psychology, Yale University)
Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke University)
Dan Lloyd (Philosophy, Trinity College)
Daniel Povinelli (Cognitive Evolution, University of Louisiana)
8:00pm: Dinner (for
prepaid guests)
9:00am-12:00: CONTRIBUTED SESSION E: The Nature of Concepts
Chair: Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University)
1) Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
"Concept Empiricism: Taking a Hard Look at the Facts"
Commentator: Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
2) Gualtiero Piccinini& Sam Scott(Washington University, St. Louis)
"Splitting Concepts"
Commentator: Dan Ryder (University of Connecticut)
3) Daniel Weiskopf (University of South Florida)
"The Plurality of Concepts"
Commentator: Mason Cash
(University of Central Florida)
9:00am-12:00: CONTRIBUTED SESSION F: Consciousness and Qualia
Chair: William Bechtel (University of California, San Diego)
1) Henry Jacoby (East Carolina University)
"Why Zombies are Impossible"
Commentator: Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut)
2) Andrew Brook & Paul Raymont (Carleton University)
"A New Theory of the Representational Base of Consciousness"
Commentator: Robert van Gulick (Syracuse University)
3) Brian Keeley (Pitzer College)
"The Hunt for the Wily Quale"
Commentator: William Lycan
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
12:00-1:15pm: Lunch
(for prepaid guests)
1:15-3:30pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3: Imag(in)ing the Brain/Mind
Chair: Donald Price (University of Florida)
1) Robert Coghill (Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest University)
"Neural Correlates of the Subjective Experience of Pain"
2) Gregory McCarthy (Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University)
Title TBA
3) Guven Guzeldere (Philosophy, Duke University)
Session Commentator
3:30-3:45pm: Coffee Talk
3:45-4:55pm: INVITED SPEAKER 2
Chair: John McHaffie (Wake Forest University)
Walter Freeman (Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
"The Role of Brain Theory in the Emergence of a New
Philosophy of Mind"
5:00-6:10pm: INVITED SPEAKER 3
Chair: Robert McCauley (Emory University)
Daniel Povinelli (Cognitive Evolution, University of Louisiana)
"The Chimpanzee's Conception
of Weight: A Test Case of the Reinterpretation Hypothesis"
6:15-6:45pm: RECEPTION
6:45-10:00pm: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS followed by ** CONFERENCE BANQUET **
Chair: Paul Bloom (Psychology, Yale University), SPP President-elect
George Graham, SPP President (Philosophy, Wake Forest University)
"Myself, the President, in
Action"
Fred Dretske(Philosophy,
Duke University)
"Unconscious Perception"
10:15-10:30am: Coffee Talk
10:30am-1:15pm: INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4: The Psychology of Free Will
Chair: Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco)
1) Jonathan Schooler, Kathleen Vohs & Azim Shariff (Psychology, University of British Columbia)
"The 'Easy' and 'Hard' Problems of Free Will"
2) Jordan Peterson (Psychology, University of Toronto)
"Free Will is for the Future, not the Past or Present"
3) Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, University of Utah) & Joshua Knobe (Philosophy, Princeton University)
"Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions"
4) Robert Kane
(Philosophy, University of Texas)
1:15-2:30pm: ANNUAL BUSINESS
MEETING with Lunch (sponsored
by WFU Philosophy Department)
2:30-4:30pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION G: Teleosemantics
Chair: Ralph Kennedy (Wake Forest University)
1) Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, Chris May, & Martin Roth (University of California, Davis)
"Representation and Unexploited Content"
Commentator: Joe Cruz (Williams College)
2) Mark Bauer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Nondenominational Teleosemantics"
Commentator: Karen Neander
(University of California, Davis)
2:30-4:30pm: CONTRIBUTED SESSION H: Mental States as Causes
Chair: Frederic Bouchard (University of Montreal)
1) Carrie Figdor (Rutgers University)
"Troubles with Syntax: Structure, Syntax, and the Causal Powers of Mind"
Commentator: Murat Aydede (University of Florida)
2) Brad Majors (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Renouncing Causal Inheritance"
Commentator: Stuart Silvers
(Clemson University)
** END OF CONFERENCE **
"Two Hard Problems: Phenomenal Concepts and the Concept of Phenomenality"
Jeffrey S. Helmreich (Georgetown
University, Columbia University)
"Concepts of Individuals Do Not Allow Identity Maintenance Within the Basic Level"
Mijke Rhemtulla
(University of British Columbia)
"In Defense of Psychological Essentialism: Evidence from Artifact Concepts"
Fei Xu &Mijke Rhemtulla
(University of British Columbia)
"Conceptual Analysis and Folk Intuitions"
Thomas Nadelhoffer
(Florida State University)
"Comments on Affect Programs"
Greg Johnson
(University of Cincinnati)
"Naturalizing Action: Desire, Intention, and Sensorimotor Transformation"
Anthony Landreth
(University of Cincinatti)
"Anorexia Nervosa, Perfectionism, and Irrational Desires"
Brent Kious
(UCLA)
"BonJour on Consciousness and Direct Apprehension"
Kelly Trogdon
(Ohio State University)
"Nonexperiential Looks"
Jack Lyons
(University of Arkansas)
"Fodor's Version of AI's Frame Problem"
Susan Schneider
(Moravian College) & Kirk Ludwig
(University of Florida)
"Conscious Unity"
Paul Raymont
(University of Toronto)
"The Red Herring of Compositionality and Beyond"
Mark T. Phelan
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Shoemaker's Moderate Qualia Realism and the Problem of Transparency"
Rene'e Smith
(Coastal Carolina University)
"Epistemic Conditions for Social Action"
Sara Chant
(Texas Tech University) & Zac Ernst
(Florida State University)
"Understanding Infant Numerical Competence"
Matthew Katz
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Asking What's Inside the Head: Situated, Embodied Cognitive Science Meets Neurophilosophy
Anthony Chemero (Franklin
and Marshall College)
"Color Representations as Hash Values"
Justin C. Fisher
(University of Arizona)
"Moderately Rationalist Naturalized Epistemology"
Stephen Crowley
(Indiana University)
"Temporal Externalism, Natural Kind Terms, and Scientifically Ignorant Communities"
John M. Collins
(East Carolina University)
"Intention, Attention and the Internal Structure of Action"
Wayne Wu
(University of California, Berkeley)
"Brain Simulation and the Turing Test"
Darren Abramson (Indiana University)
The SPP Program Committee, Eddy Nahmias, Anne Jacobson, and Nicholas Georgalis, would like to thank: Past program chairs Brian Keeley, Tom Polger, and Colin Allen, for their helpful suggestions (and Colin for running the online submission form and answering a million questions from Eddy).
George Graham, for his sage (indeed presidential) advice throughout.
Ralph Kennedy, for his outstanding work as on-site coordinator.
Jim Garson, for his excellent work on the SPP website.
SPP Members who volunteered to referee submitted papers
(and amazingly, everyone did so on time!): Bill Robinson, Bill
Lycan, Bill Bechtel, Uriah Kriegel, Tom Polger, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Tamler
Sommers, Stuart Silvers, Lynn Stephens, Shaun Nichols, Sanford Goldberg,
Robert Barnard, Bob Richardson, Carl Gillett, Philip Robbins, Pete Mandik,
Peggy DesAutels, Paul Bloom, Mark Rollins, Dan Lloyd, Kenneth Aizawa, Karsten
Stueber, Jonathan Cohen, John Roberts, John Bickle, Jose' Bermudez, Jim
Garson, David Hunter, Valerie Hardcastle, Fei Xu, Carl Craver, Deborah
Tollefsen, Daniel Weiskopf, Colin Allen, Christian Miller, Brian Keeley,
Boris Kukso, Bill Ramsey, Tony Jack, Irene Applebaum, Bob van Gulick, and
Tony Chemero.
The on-site coordinator, Ralph Kennedy, would like to thank:
Donna Simmons, for her expert and cheerful assistance.
George Graham,
for copious good advice.
The SPP would like to thank:
Wake Forest University and the WFU Philosophy Department.
Blackwell Publishing's Jeff Dean, for securing funds for the reception.