Program Overview

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Thursday, June 14th

 

10:30 am  -  6:30 pm                      Registration (outside Vari Hall C, third floor)

2:00 pm  -  3:00 pm                          Stanton Prize Address:

                                                                                                John Doris (Vari Hall C)

3:00 pm  -  3:15 pm                         Coffee (outside Vari Hall C)

3:15 pm  -  6:15 pm                         

Session A:         Language & Cognition  (Vari Hall D)

Session B:          Moral Psychology (Vari Hall C)

 

6:15 pm  -  7:15 pm                          Poster Madness (Michelangelo's)

7:15 pm  -  8:15 pm                          Poster Session & Reception (Michelangelo's)

 

Friday, June 15th

 

8:00 am  -  6:30 pm                           Registration (Vari Hall 1152A)

8:00 am  -  8:30 am                           Coffee (Courtyard)

8:30 am  -  11:30 am                       Invited Symposium #1: Perception (Vari Hall B)

11:30 am  -  12:30 pm                  Invited Talk #1:

                                                                                                Alva No‘ (Vari Hall B)

12:30 am  -  1:30 pm                      Lunch Break

1:30 pm  -  4:30 pm

Session C:          Perception and Illusions (Vari Hall B)

Session D:         Causality and Theory of Mind (Vari Hall C)

 

4:30 pm  -  4:45 pm                          Coffee (Courtyard)

4:45 pm  -  5:45 pm                          Invited Talk #2:

                                                                                                Renee Baillargeon (Vari Hall B)

5:45 pm  -  6:45 pm                          Invited Talk #3:

                                                                                                Bertram Malle (Vari Hall B)

6:45 pm  -  8:00 pm                          Poster Display & Reception (Michelangelo's)

8:00 pm                                                                   Executive Committee Meeting (N201 Schulich)

 

Saturday, June 16th

 

8:30 am     -  6:30 pm                           Registration (Vari Hall 1152A)

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

9:00 am     -  12:00 pm                     

Session E:          Innateness, Learning, & Cognitive Architecture (Vari Hall B)

Session F:           Externalism and Situated Cognition

(Vari Hall C)

 

12:00 pm                                                               -  1:00 pm            Lunch break

1:00 pm    -  4:00 pm                           Invited Symposium #2: Experimental Philosophy

                                                                                                (Vari Hall B)

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

4:15 pm    -  5:15 pm                           Invited Talk #4:

                                                                                                James Blair (Vari Hall B)

5:15 pm    -  6:15 pm                           Presidential Address: David Sanford (Vari Hall B)

6:30 pm    -  7:00 pm                           Travel to Banquet (meet in Vari Rotunda)

7:00 pm    -  10:00 pm                      Banquet (Bar Mercurio, 270 Bloor St. West)

 

 

Sunday, June 17th

 

8:30 am     -  9:00 am                           Coffee (Vari Hall Courtyard)

9:00 am     -  11:30 am                       Invited Symposium #3:

                                                                                                Morality in Mind and Brain (Vari Hall B)

11:30 am -  1:30 pm                           Lunch Break & Business Meeting (Michelangelo's)

1:30 pm    -  4:00 pm                           Invited Symposium #4:

                                                                                                Animal Culture and Cognition (Vari Hall B)

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Program

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Thursday, June 14th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

12:00 pm  -  6:30 pm       Registration

 

2:00 pm  -  3:00 pm           Stanton Prize Address (Vari Hall C)

 

John Doris (Dept. of Philosphy, University of California, Santa Cruz)

 

Broadminded: The Social Realization of Moral Minds

Co-author: Shaun Nichols (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Arizona)

 

Chair: Jesse Prinz (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

3:00 pm  -  3:15 pm           Coffee (outside Vari Hall C)

 

3:15 pm  -  6:15 pm

 

Contributed Session A: Language and Cognition (Vari Hall D)

 

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

 

Phonology is Not Psychological and Speech Processing is Not Linguistics

Robert Port  (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

Commentator: Guy Dove (Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville)

 

The Difficulty of Paraphrase is the Dogma of Metaphor

Mark Phelan  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Commentator: Dustin Stokes (Dept. of Informatics, University of Sussex)

 

The Language Organ and Complex Thought

Steve McKay  (Dept. of Philosophy, McGill University/CŽgep de Sherbrooke)

Commentator: Chris Viger (Dept. of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario)

 

3:15 pm  -  6:15 pm

 

Contributed Session B: Moral Psychology (Vari Hall C)

 

Chair: Liane Young (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University)

 

A Social Model of Moral Dumbfounding: Implications for Studying Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgment

Andrew Sneddon  (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Ottawa)

Commentator: Fiery Cushman (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University)

 

The Moral Behavior of Ethicists

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

Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

 

What Do We See in Others? An Empirical Follow-up to Knobe and Roedder

Chad Gonnerman (Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University)

Commentator: Joshua Knobe (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Luke Misenheimer (Dept. of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley).

 

6:15 pm  -  7:15 pm           Poster Madness (MichelangeloĠs)

 

7:15 pm  -  8:15 pm           Poster Session & Reception (MichelangeloĠs)

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Friday, June 15th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

8:00 am  -  6:30 pm           Registration (Vari Hall 1152A)

 

8:00 am  -  8:30 am            Coffee (Courtyard)

 

8:30 am  -  11:30 am       

 

Invited Symposium #1: Perception, Attention, and Consciousness (Vari Hall B)

 

Chair: James Genone (Dept. of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)

 

Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness

Evan Thompson (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto)

 

Properly Functioning Vision

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

 

How Things Look (And What Things Look That Way)

Mohan Matthen (Dept. of Philosophy, University of British Columbia)

 

11:30 am  -  12:30 pm    Invited Talk #1: (Vari Hall B)

 

Alva No‘ (Dept. of Philosopy, University of California, Berkeley)

 

Magical Realism and the Limits of Intelligibility: What Makes Us Conscious?

 

Chair: Jesse Prinz (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

12:30 pm  -  1:30 pm       Lunch Break

 

 

1:30 pm  -  4:30 pm 

 

Contributed Session C:  Perception and Illusions (Vari Hall B)

 

Chair: Nicoletta Orlandi (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

Cross-Modal Illusions and Perceptual Content

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

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

 

It's Not Easy Being Green: Hardin and Color Relationalism

Jonathan Cohen (Dept. of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego)

Commentator: Larry Hardin (Dept. of Philosophy, Syracuse University)

 

The Exclusion-Failure Paradigm and Signal Detection Theory - P without A consciousness?

Elizabeth Irvine (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)

Commentator: Benj Hellie (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto)

 

1:30 pm  -  4:30 pm

 

Contributed Session D: Causality and Theory of Mind (Vari Hall C)

 

Chair:  Laurie Santos (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

Mechanisms and Functions: Empirical Evidence for Distinct Modes of Understanding

Tania Lombrozo (Dept. of Psychology, University of California Berkeley)

Commentator: Deena Skolnick Weisberg (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

Trusting and Punishing Artifacts

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

Commentator: Izzat Jurudi (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

Covert Rationality: Overimitation and the Structure of Children's Causal Learning

Derek Lyons  (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

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

 

4:30 pm  -  4:45 pm          Coffee (Courtyard)

 

4:45 pm  -  5:45 pm           Invited Talk #2: (Vari Hall B)

 

Renee Baillargeon (Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

 

Psychological Reasoning in Infancy

Chair: Fei Xu (Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia)

 

5:45 pm  -  6:45 pm           Invited Talk #3: (Vari Hall B)

 

Bertram Malle (Dept. of Psychology & Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon)

 

Explaining Explanations: How Humans Find Meaning in Social Behavior

 

Chair: Joshua Knobe (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

6:45 pm  -  8:00 pm           Poster Display & Reception (MichelangeloĠs)

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, June 16th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

8:30 am  -  6:30 pm          Registration (Vari Hall 1152A)

 

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

 

9:00 am  -  12:00 pm

 

Contributed Session E: Innateness, Learning, & Cognitive Architecture (Vari Hall B)

 

Chair:  Eric Mandelbaum (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

Perceptual Isomorphisms and Concept Acquisition

William Dylan Sabo (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Commentator: Susan Schneider (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)

 

From Cell-Surface Receptors to Higher Learning: A Whole World of Experience

Karola Stotz and Colin Allen (Cognitive Science Program, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)

Commentator: Luc Faucher (Dept. of Philosophy, UniversitŽ du QuŽbec ˆ MontrŽal)

 

Implications of the Massive Redeployment Hypothesis for Our Understanding of the Nature of Cognitive Functions

Michael L. Anderson (Dept. of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College)

Commentator: Felipe De Brigard (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

9:00 am  -  12:00 pm

 

Contributed Session F: Externalism and Situated Cognition (Vari Hall C)

 

Chair: Brian Huss

 

Defending Extended Cognition

Tony Chemero (Dept. of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College) & Michael Silberstein

(Philosophy Dept., Elizabethtown College and Foundations of Physics Program, University of

Maryland)

Commentator: Ken Aizawa (Dept. of Philosophy, Centenary College of Louisiana)

 

Cultural Differences in Attributions of Phenomenal States to Groups

Michael Bruno (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Arizona), Bryce Huebner (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and  Hagop Sarkissian (Dept. of Philosophy, Duke University)

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

 

How Should Externalists Delineate The Mind?

Brie Gertler (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Virginia)

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

 

12:00 pm  -  1:00 pm       Lunch Break

 

1:00 pm  -  4:00 pm          

 

Invited Symposium #2: Experimental Philosophy (Vari Hall B)

 

Chair: David Pizarro (Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University)

 

Folk Judgments of Causation

Joshua Knobe (Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Mapping the Terrain

Eddy Nahmias, Daniel Coates, and Trevor Kvaran (Dept. of Philosophy, Georgia State University)

 

Universal Moral Grammar: Objections and Replies.

John Mikhail (Law Center and Philosophy Dept., Georgetown University)

 

Methods for Experimental Philosophers: A Tutorial

Jennifer Wright (Depts. of Psychology and Philosophy, University of Wyoming)

 

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

 

4:15 pm  -  5:15 pm           Invited Talk #4: (Vari Hall B)

 

James Blair  (Unit of Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health)

 

The What and Where of a Care Based Moral Intuition

 

Chair: Jesse Prinz (Dept. of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

5:15 pm  -  6:15 pm           Presidential Address: (Vari Hall B)

 

David Sanford  (Dept. of Philosophy, Duke University)

 

Seven Grades of Perceptual Involvement

 

Chair: SPP President-Elect Lila Gleitman (Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

 

6:30 pm  -  7:00 pm           Travel to Banquet

 

7:00 pm  -  10:00 pm       Banquet

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Sunday, June 17th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

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

 

 

9:00 am  -  11:30 am

 

Invited Symposium #3: Morality in Mind and Brain (Vari Hall B)

 

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

 

The Guilty Mind: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Theory of Mind in Moral Judgment

Liane Young (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University) and Rebecca Saxe (Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT)

 

Precursors to Moral Evaluation in Preverbal Infants

Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

Who To Blame?: How and Why We Hold People Morally Responsible

David Pizarro (Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University)

 

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

 

1:30 pm  -  4:00 pm

 

Invited Symposium #4: Animal Culture and Cognition (Vari Hall B)

 

Chair: Colin Allen (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)

 

The Evolution of Irrationality: Insights from Non-Human Primates

Venkat Lakshminarayanan and Laurie Santos (Dept. of Psychology, Yale University)

 

Chimpanzee Cultures: A Synopsis of Evidence from the Field and Captivity

Victoria Horner (Dept. of Psychology, University of St. Andrews)

 

Do Chimpanzees Follow Norms?

Lori Gruen (Dept. of Psychology, Wesleyan University)