Society for Philosophy & Psychology

 

32nd Annual Meeting  (June 1st - 4th, 2006)

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Whittaker Hall

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 


2006 Program



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Program Overview

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Thursday, June 1st

 

9:30 am    -  6:30 pm      Registration (Atrium), Book display (Library)

9:30 am    -  10:30 am    Coffee (Atrium)

10:45 am  -  11:45 am    Invited Talk #1 (Auditorium): Pascal Boyer & Pierre Lienard

11:45 am  -  1:00 pm      Lunch break

1:00 pm    -  4:00 pm      Session A (Auditorium): Empirical Approaches to Philosophy

                                       Session B (Room 218): Consciousness and Phenomenology

4:00 pm    -  4:15 pm      Coffee (Atrium)

4:15 pm    -  6:45 pm      Invited Symposium #1 (Auditorium): Causal Reasoning

6:45 pm    -  8:15 pm      Poster Session & Reception (Atrium)

 

Friday, June 2nd

 

8:30 am    -  6:30 pm      Registration & Poster display (Atrium), Book display (Library)

8:30 am    -  9:00 am      Coffee (Atrium)

9:00 am    -  11:45 am    Invited Symposium #2 (Auditorium): Other Minds

11:45 am  -  1:00 pm      Lunch Break; Executive Committee Lunch (Whittemore House)

1:00 pm    -  4:00 pm      Session C (Auditorium): Morality and Value

                                       Session D (Room 218): Mental State Attribution

4:00 pm    -  4:15 pm      Coffee (Atrium)

4:15 pm    -  5:15 pm      Invited Talk #2 (Auditorium): Lila Gleitman

5:15 pm    -  6:15 pm      Invited Talk #3 (Auditorium): Jesse Prinz

6:15 pm    -  8:00 pm      Poster Display & Reception (Atrium)

 

Saturday, June 3rd

 

8:30 am    -  6:30 pm      Registration & Book display (Library), Poster display (Atrium)

8:30 am    -  9:00 am      Coffee (Atrium)

9:00 am    -  12:00 pm    Session E (Auditorium): Fiction and Imagination

                                       Session F (Room 218): Cognitive Architecture

12:00 pm  -  1:15 pm      Lunch break

1:15 pm    -  4:15 pm      Invited Symposium #3 (Auditorium): The Cognitive Science of Religion

4:15 pm    -  4:30 pm      Coffee (Atrium)

4:30 pm    -  5:30 pm      Invited Talk #4 (Auditorium): Jenefer Robinson

5:30 pm    -  6:30 pm      Stanton Prize Address (Auditorium): Fei Xu

6:30 pm    -  7:30 pm      Reception (Holmes Lounge)

7:00 pm    -  10:00 pm    Banquet & Presidential Address (Holmes Lounge): Paul Bloom

 

Sunday, June 4th

 

8:30 am    -  9:00 am      Coffee (Atrium)

9:00 am    -  11:30 am    Invited Symposium #4 (Auditorium): Social Cognition

11:30 am  -  1:30 pm      Business Meeting & Lunch (Brown Lounge)



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Thursday, June 1st

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

9:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Registration

Atrium

 

9:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Book Display

Library

 

9:30 am  -  10:30 am

Coffee

Atrium

 

10:45 am  -  11:45 am

Invited Talk #1:  Pascal Boyer  (Dept. of Psychology, Washington University)

Auditorium            & Pierre Leinard  (Cognition & Culture, Queen's University, Belfast)

 

Why Do Religious Believers and Obsessive Patients Perform Rituals?

 

Chair: James Wertsch (Dept. of Psychology, Washington University)

 

11:45 am  -  1:00 pm

Lunch Break

 

1:00 pm  -  4:00 pm

Contributed Session A:  Empirical Approaches to Philosophy

Auditorium

 

Chair:  Daniel Weiskopf (Dept. of Philosophy, University of South Florida)

 

The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions

Stacey Swain, Joshua Alexander, & Jonathan Weinberg  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana Univ.)

Commentator: Phillip Robbins (Dept. of Philosophy & PNP, Washington University)

 

Pragmatic Conceptual Analysis

Justin Fisher  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Arizona)

Commentator: Joseph Cruz (Dept. of Philosophy, Williams College)

 

Honor and Responsibility: Two Ways To Motivate Retribution

Tamler Sommers  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Morris)

Commentator: TBA

 

1:00 pm  -  4:00 pm

Contributed Session B:  Consciousness and Phenomenology

Room 218

 

Chair: Chris Mole (Dept. of Philosophy & PNP, Washington University)

 

Do Things Look Flat?

Eric Schwitzgebel  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside)

Commentator: Anthony Jack (Dept. of Psychology, Washington University)

 

Now or Never:  How Consciousness Represents Time

Paula Droege  (Dept. of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University)

Commentator: Brian Keeley (Dept. of Philosophy, Pitzer College)

 

Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness?

John Bickle  (Dept. of Philosophy and Graduate Neuroscience Program, Univ. of Cincinnati)

Commentator: Carl Gillett (Dept. of Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan University)

 

4:00 pm  -  4:15 pm

Coffee

Atrium

 

4:15 pm  -  6:45 pm

Invited Symposium #1:  Causal Reasoning

Auditorium

 

Chair: Shaun Nichols (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Utah)

 

Babies and Bayes Nets: Causal Inference in Young Children

Alison Gopnik  (Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)

 

Some  Issues in the Empirical Psychology of Causal Judgment

James Woodward  (Dept. of Philosophy, Cal Tech)

 

Causal Learning and Learning to Be Causal: A Bayesian Account

Noah Goodman  (Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

 

6:45 pm  -  8:15 pm

Poster Session & Reception

Atrium

Hosted by the Washington University Department of Philosophy



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Friday, June 2nd

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

8:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Registration & Poster Display

Atrium

 

8:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Book Display

Library

 

8:30 am  -  9:00 am

Coffee

Atrium

 

9:00 am  -  11:45 am

Invited Symposium #2:  Other Minds

Auditorium

 

Chair: Anne Jacobson (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Houston)

 

Deduction and Categorization in Nonhuman Animals

Colin Allen & Ronaldo Vigo   (Depts. of Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Indiana University)

 

What Primates Understand about Their Social Partners' Rewards

Sarah Brosnan  (Dept. of Anthropology, Emory University)

 

The Evolution of Mind Reading: Insights from Non-human Primates

Laurie Santos  (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

11:45 am  -  1:00 pm

Lunch Break

Executive Committee Lunch  (Whittemore House)

 

1:00 pm  -  4:00 pm

Contributed Session C:  Morality and Value

Auditorium

 

Chair:  Steven Horst (Dept. of Philosophy, Wesleyan College)

 

The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment

Fiery Cushman  (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University)

Commentator: Ron Mallon (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Utah)

 

The Concept of Valuing: Experimental Studies

Joshua Knobe  (Dept. of Philosophy, UNC) & Erica Roedder (Dept. of Philosophy, NYU)

Commentator: Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University)

 

Moral Judgment is More Consequentialist in Individuals with Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage

Liane Young  (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University)

Commentator: Heidi Maibom (Dept. of Philosophy, Carleton University)

 

1:00 pm  -  4:00 pm

Contributed Session D:  Mental State Attribution

Room 218

 

Chair:  TBA

 

Psychological Foundations of the Argument From Design

George Newman  (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

Commentator: Tania Lombrozo (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University)

 

Neo-Reductionist Views of Know-How

Charles Wallis  (Dept. of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach)

Commentator: JosÈ Luis Berm™dez (Dept. of Philosophy & PNP, Washington University)

 

Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist

Rob Wilson  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

Commentator: Robert Rupert (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado)

 

4:00 pm  -  4:15 pm

Coffee

Atrium

 

4:15 pm  -  5:15 pm

Invited Talk #2:  Lila Gleitman  (Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

Auditorium

 

Language Learning Without Conceptual Development

 

Chair: Brian Scholl (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

5:15 pm  -  6:15 pm

Invited Talk #3:  Jesse Prinz  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina)

Auditorium

 

Hume's Brain: Does Cognitive Science Confirm Humean Moral Psychology?

 

Chair: Mark Rollins (Philosophy and PNP, Washington University)

 

6:15 pm  -  8:00 pm

Poster Display & Reception

Atrium

Hosted by the Washington University Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Saturday, June 3rd

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

8:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Registration & Book Display

Library

 

8:30 am  -  6:30 pm

Poster Display

Atrium

 

8:30 am  -  9:30 am

Coffee

Atrium

 

9:00 am  -  12:00 pm

Contributed Session E:  Fiction and Imagination

Auditorium

 

Chair: Robert Gordon (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis)

 

The Cognitive Architecture of Imaginative Resistance

Jonathan Weinberg  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University) & Aaron Meskin (Dept. of Philosophy, Leeds University)

Commentator: Jonathan Ichikawa (Dept. of Philosophy, Brown University)

 

The Creation of Fictional Worlds

Deena Skolnick & Paul Bloom  (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

Commentator: James Harold (Dept. of Philosophy, Mount Holyoak)

 

Learning Without Looking:  Incubated Cognition And Creativity

Dustin Stokes  (Dept. of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex)

Commentator: Kelby Mason (Dept. of Philosophy, Rutgers University)

 

9:00 am  -  12:00 pm

Contributed Session F:  Cognitive Architecture

Room 218

 

Chair: Gualtiero Piccinini (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Saint Louis)

 

Evidence for Massive Redeployment of Brain Areas in Cognitive Functions

Michael Anderson  (Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland)

Commentator: Peter Mandik (Dept. of Philosophy, William Paterson University)

 

Massive Modularity and Brain Evolution

Edouard Machery  (Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh)

Commentator: Carl Craver (Dept. of Philosophy & PNP, Washington University)

 

Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach

Amy Perfors  (Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

Commentator: TBA

 

12:00 pm  -  1:15 pm

Lunch Break

 

1:15 pm  -  4:15 pm

Invited Symposium #3:  The Cognitive Science of Religion

Auditorium

 

Chair: Jesper Sorensen (Dept. of Comparative Religion, University of Southern Denmark)

 

Has Belief Been HADD?  Agency Detection and Religious Belief

Justin Barrett  (Cognition & Culture Centre, Oxford University)

 

Children's Belief in Invisible Witnesses

Jesse Bering  (Cognition & Culture, Queen's University, Belfast)

 

The Human Function Compunction: Teleological Attribution and Religious Cognition

Deborah Kelemen  (Dept. of Psychology, Boston University)

 

The Cognitive Foundations of Religious Ritual Patterns

Robert McCauley  (Dept. of Philosophy, Emory University)

 

4:15 pm  -  4:30 pm

Coffee

Atrium

 

4:30 pm  -  5:30 pm

Invited Talk #4:  Jenefer Robinson  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)

Auditorium

 

What's Basic about Basic Emotions?

 

Chair: Stephanie Ross (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis)

 

5:30 pm  -  6:30 pm

Stanton Prize Address:  Fei Xu  (Dept. of Psychology, University of British Columbia)

Auditorium

 

Infants' Metaphysics

 

Chair: Paul Bloom (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

6:30 pm  -  7:00 pm

Reception

Holmes Lounge

Hosted by the Washington University Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program

 

7:00 pm  -  10:00 pm

Banquet

Presidential Address:  Paul Bloom  (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

Holmes Lounge

 

But Is It Art?

 

Chair: SPP President-Elect David Sanford (Dept. of Philosophy, Duke University)



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Sunday, June 4th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

8:30 am  -  9:00 am

Coffee

Atrium

 

9:00 am  -  11:30 am

Invited Symposium #4:  Social Cognition

Auditorium

 

Chair: Dan Haybron (Dept. of Philosophy, Saint Louis University)

 

How (Not) to Build a Person

John Doris  (Dept. of Philosophy & PNP, Washington University)

 

It's the Thought That Counts: Cognitive Neuroscience Studies of Theory of Mind

Rebecca Saxe (Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

 

Trait Inferences from Faces: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms

Alexander Todorov (Dept. of Psychology, Princeton University)

 

11:30 pm  -  1:30 pm

Business Meeting & Lunch

Brown Lounge

Hosted by the Washington University Department of Philosophy

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Poster Presentations

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

The theoretical entities of folk psychology

Kristin Andrews  (Dept. of Philosophy, York University)

 

Bullshit and personality disorders

Sara Bernal  (Dept. of Philosophy, St Louis University)        

 

Transcending path-dependent learning?

Kristina Biniek  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of South Florida)

 

Offloading the mind

Michael Bruno  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Arizona)

 

How reliable is that monkey?

Stephen Crowley  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

 

Assessing individualism and anti-individualism

Richard Doan  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside)

 

Rethinking Gareth Evans' answer to Molyneux's question

Brian Glenney  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Southern California)

 

Extended cognition and the coupling-constitution fallacy

Martin Godwyn  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of British Columbia)                   

 

Making use of meaning with help from the extended mind

Steven Paul Harris  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

 

Reasoning about contradictions across cultures: Empirical findings

Brian Huss  (Dept. of Philosophy, York University)  

 

Comparability, rationality, and neuroeconomics

Anthony Landreth  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)

 

Two routes to moral consideration: A psychological investigation of moral intuitions

Tania Lombrozo  (Dept. Of Psychology, Harvard University)

 

Perceptual kinds

Jack Lyons  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Arkansas)   

 

Social emotions

Heidi Maibom  (Dept. of Philosophy, Carleton University)

 

Virtue ethics and situationism: Where's the beef?

Kelby Mason  (Dept. of Philosophy, Rutgers University)

 

Empathy and social cognition: Models and sex differences

Deborah Mower  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin--Madison)

 

Folk intuitions, slippery slopes, and necessary fictions

Thomas Nadelhoffer  (Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University)

 

What heterophenomenology misses

Alyssa Ney  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Rochester)

 

The locations of sounds

Casey O'Callaghan  (Dept. of Philosophy, Bates College)

 

Stomaching Prinz's gut reactions

J. Brendan Ritchie  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Manitoba)

 

Collectivism and the emergence of linguistic universals

Georg Theiner  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

 

The problem of abstraction in some recent theories of concept learning

Matt Van Cleave  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)

 

Intrinsic computational models and the experience of physical properties

Jonathan Waskan  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

The function of folk psychology: Mind reading or mind shaping?

Tad Zawidzki  (Dept. of Philosophy, George Washington University)

 

A cognitive-neuroscience approach to the Sorites paradox

Mark Zelcer/Leib Litman  (Dept. of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate School)

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

SPP 2006

 

President:  Paul Bloom

President-Elect:  David Sanford

Secretary-Treasurer:  Joe Cruz

Program Co-Chairs:  Shaun Nichols & Brian Scholl

Local Arrangements:  Mark Rollins

 

Executive Committee

Kristen Andrews, Paul Bloom, Jonathan Cohen, Tony Jack, Brian Keeley, Steve Horst, Anne Jacobson, Michael Lynch, Eddy Nahmias, Jeff Poland, Tom Polger, Donald Price, Jesse Prinz, Brian Scholl, Fei Xu