SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

Joint Meeting of SPP with the ESPP held in Barcelona, Spain

July 3 - July 6, 2004

Conference Program

 
Friday 2 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm  Registration
 
TIME
Saturday 3 
Sunday 4 
Monday 5 
Tuesday 6 
8:45 am
Registration  
9:20 am 
Welcome 
John Campbell
(President of the ESPP) 
9:30 am

Invited Speaker 
Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard)
(Sponsored by Mind & Language) 
Stanton Lecture
David Chalmers (Arizona) 
Invited Speaker
Michael Posner (Oregon) 
Invited Symposium
OBJECTS IN THOUGHT AND PERCEPTION

Contributed Symposium
A Self Representation

10:45 am
Coffee break 
11:15 am
Invited Symposium
 

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 

Invited Symposium
 

AGENCY

Invited Speaker
Anthony Marcel (Cambridge)

 

11:45 am 
Coffee break 
12:15 am 
Invited Speaker
François Recanati (Paris) 
12:30 am 

 
 

 

Poster Session 2
1:30 pm
Lunch
3:00 pm 
Parallel Sessions 1 

Contributed Symposium
A Metacognition

Contributed Papers
B Emotion/Dreaming
C Evolutionary Biology
D Animal Cognition
E Methodology/Evidence
F Content of Mental States
G Pragmatics

Parallel Sessions 2

Contributed Symposium 
A Color Naming

Contributed Papers
B Metaphysics of Mind
C Modularity
D Learning & Inference
E Moral Psychology
F Sensation & Perception 2
G Semantics

Parallel Sessions 4 

Contributed Symposium 
A Sense of Touch

Contributed Papers
B TOM1
C Concepts & Cognition
D Perception and Attention
E Free Will
F Cognitive Structure
G Linguistic Development

Parallel Sessions 5 

Contributed Symposium
A Causal Cognition

Contributed Papers
C Concepts
D Problem Solving
E TOM2
F Metascience
G Semantics & Thought

5:00 pm 
Coffee /Poster Session 1 Coffee / 

Poster Session 1

OUP Hosted Reception

SPP Presidential Address
Frank Keil (Yale) 

Coffee / Poster Session 2
5:30 pm 
Invited Symposium
 

OPACITY

Contributed Symposium 
A Delusional Belief

Contributed Papers
B Simulation
C Categorization
D Content of Experience
E Davidson
F Explanation & Behavior
G Modeling Language Use

5:45 pm
Parallel Sessions 3 

Contributed Symposium 
A Beyond Reduction

Contributed Papers
B Mental Representation
C Cognitive Development
D Consciousness
E Self
F Sensation & Perception 1
G Lexical Semantics & Pragmatics

6:30 pm 
Business Meeting of each Society 
 

7:00 pm

7:30 pm 
 
7:45 pm 
 
9:00 pm 
  Conference Dinner   

 

FRIDAY 2
 
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration

 

SATURDAY 3
 
8:45 am  Registration
9:20 am  Welcome
9:30 am  Invited Speaker 
Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard), Language and Core Knowledge
Chair: Rob Wilson (Alberta)
10:45 am  Coffee break 
11:15 am  Invited Symposium 
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
Convened by Nuria Sebastian (Barcelona)
Speakers: Luca Bonatti (Trieste), Cynthia Fisher (Illinois, Champaign), Thierry Nazzi (Paris)
1:30 pm Lunch
3:00 pm 
Parallel Sessions 1 

A. Contributed Symposium: Metacognition, Theory of Mind and Top-Down Processing

A1. Hilde Haider and Peter Frensch, At Least Some Strategy Shifts Are Induced by Top-Down Processing
A2. Helene Poissant (Universite Quebec at Montreal), Executive Functions, Metacognition, Theory of Mind, and the Special Case of ADHD
A3. Oana Benga (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Social Cognition and Executive Functions - A Constructivist Approach
B. Emotion and Dreaming (Chair: Antoni Gomila (Univ. Illes Balears)
B1. Louis Charland (University of Western Ontario, London Ontario Canada), Indeterminacy of Valence
B2. William Wringe (Bilkent Universitesi Turkey), Emotions, Modularity, and Non-Conceptual Content
B3. Dina Mendonca (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), Pattern of Emotion - Following a Deweyan Suggestion
B4. John Sutton (Macquarie University), Children's Dreaming and Theories of Dreams 
C. Psychology and Evolutionary Biology (Chair: Colin Allen (Texas A&M University)
C1. Stuart Silvers (Clemson University, USA), Implications, Intimations, and Intimidations of Evolutionary Psychology
C2. Pierre Poirrier, Luc Faucher, & Jean Lachapelle (University of Quebec at Montreal), The Concept of Innateness and the Destiny of Evolutionary Psychology
C3. Mark Couch (Columbia University), Evolutionary Convergence and Multiple Realization
C4. Claudia Garcia (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Biological Concepts of Innateness in Cognitive Studies 
D. Animal Cognition (Chair: John Kulvicki
D1. Laura Duhau (King's College, London), Animal Concepts?
D2. Joëlle Proust (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Paris), Rationality and Metacognition in Non-Human Animals
D3. Manuel de Pinedo & Jason Noble (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Beyond Persons: Extending the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction to Non-Rational Animals and Artificial Agents
D4. Hans Dooremelan (Groningen University The Netherlands), What Is it Like to Be a Gnat? 
E. Methodology and Evidence in Mind/Brain Research (Chair: John Bickle (University of Cincinnati)
E1. Constantine Sandis (University of Reading), Objects of Explanation in Motivational Psychology
E2. Geoffrey Lee (NYU), The Experience of Left and Right
E3. Philipp Huebl (Humboldt University of Berlin / University of Oxford), Action, Intention, and Cortical Potentials
F. Content of Mental States (Chair: Daniel Hsi-wen Liu (Providence University, Taiwan)
F1. Susan Schneider (Moravian College Bethlem), The Nature of Primitive Symbols in the Language of Thought: A Proposal 
F2. Nicholas Shea (University of Oxford), Externalist Syntax?
F3. Gualtiero Piccinini (Washington University), Functionalism, Computationalism, and Mental Contents
F4. Jordi Fernández (Macquarie University Sidney), Content in Episodic Memory 
G. Pragmatics (Chair: Nellie Wieland (University of California ))
G1. Friederike Moltmann (University of Stirling), Presuppositions: A New Perspective
G2. Mark Jary (University of Surrey Roehampton), Indicative Mood, Assertoric Force and Relevance
G3. Napoleon Katsos (Darwin College, UK), An Experimental Investigation on the Semantics/Pragmatics of Numerals
G4. George Powell (University College London), The Pragmatics of Token Reflexivity
5:00 pm Coffee / Poster Session 1
5:30 pm  Invited Symposium 
OPACITY
Convened by Josef Perner (Salzburg)
Speakers: Ian Apperly (Birmingham), Stephen Butterfill (Cambridge), Jill deVilliers (Smith College, Massachussetts)
7:45 pm 
End of sessions 
 

SUNDAY 4
 
9:30 am  Stanton lecture
David Chalmers (Arizona), The Matrix as Metaphysics
Chair: Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University) 
10:45 am  Coffee break 
11:15 am  Invited Symposium 
AGENCY
Convened by Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati)
Speakers: Gregory Currie (Philosophy, Nottingham), Luciano Fadiga (Medicine, Ferrara), Karsten Stueber (Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross) 
1:30 pm Lunch
3:00 pm 
Parallel Sessions 2

A. Contributed Symposium: Contemporary Research in Color Naming: Alternatives to the Received View

A1. Don Dedrick (University of Guelph), Color Names and Their Explanation[s]: Beyond the Received View
A2. Kimberly Jameson (Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences), Color Naming Universals and Their Cross-Cultural Variations
A3. Debi Roberson, Color Categories: Evidence for the Relativity Hypothesis


B. Metaphysics of Mind (Chair: Jeff Poland (Rhode Island School of Design)

B1. Thomas Polger (University of Cincinnati), Realization and the Metaphysics of Mind
B2. Rob Wilson (University of Alberta), Essentialism in and on My Mind
B3. Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University), Jackson 's Change of Mind: Representationalism, A Priorism, and the Knowledge Argument
B4. Richard Brown (CUNY Grad. Center), Saying ëI Do' to Identity
C. Modularity and Cognitive Penetrability (Chair: Brian Keeley (Pitzer College))
C1. Sara Bernel & Philip Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis), Unifying Modulandia: Language As Domain Integrator
C2. Robert McCauley & Joseph Heinrich (Emory University), The Diachronic Penetrability of the Visual Input System
C3. Athanassios Raftopoulis (University of Cyprus), Spatial Attention and Cognitive Impenetrability of Perception
D. Learning and Inference (Chair: Elizabeth Robinson (Keele University, UK))
D1. Eleni Ziori, Zoltan Dienes (University of Ioannina Greece), The Time Course of Implicit and Explicit Learning
D2. Guy Longworth (Birkbeck College, UK), Comprehension and Inference
D3. Rocio García-Retamero (University of Granada, Spain), Ulrich Hoffrage, Anja Dieckmann (Max-Planck Institute, Berlin), Compound Cue Processing in a Logical AND Structure
E. 13 Moral Psychology (Chair: Melvin Woody)
E1. Antti Kauppinen (University of Helsinki), Empirical Evidence in Moral Psychology
E2. Dominic Murphy (Caltech), A Non-Kantian But Still Cognitive Explanation for Psychopathic Immorality
E3. Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University), Where Norms Come From: A Naturalistic Approach
F. Sensation and Perception 2 (Chair: Karsten Stueber (University of Holy Cross))
F1. Barbara Montero (City University of New York), How to Proprioceive Someone Else's Movement
F2. Sara Forti & Glyn Humphreys (University of Birmingham), Representation of Unseen Objects in Visual Neglect: Resistance to Variations in Viewpoint and in Exemplar With the Same Name Presented
F3. Andrea Scarantino (University of Pittsburgh), Blindfright and the Cognitivist's Dilemma
F4. Adina Roskies (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A New Argument for Nonconceptual Content
G. Semantics (Chair: Alice ter Meulen (Cen. for Language & Cognition, Univ. of Groningen, NL))
G1. Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris), Ontological Symmetry in Language: Some Arguments and Speculations
G2. Alice Ter Meulen (Center for Language & Cognition University of Groningen NL), Naturalizing Facts for Counterfactuals
G3. Nellie Wieland (University of California), wanna, supposta, hafta: Hunches and Hypotheses on the Impermissible
G4. Daniel Weiskopf (University of South Florida), Complex Nominals and Compositional Semantics
5:00 pm Coffee / Poster Session 1
5:45 pm 
Parallel Sessions 3

A. Contributed Symposium: Beyond Reduction: What Can Philosophy of Mind Learn From (Recent) Philosophy of Science

A1. John Bickle (University of Cincinnati), Explicating Reduction-In-Practice in ëMolecular and Cellular Cognition
A2. Steven Horst (Wesleyan University), Law, Mind, and Freedom
A3. William Bechtel, Reducing Psychology While Maintaining Its Autonomy Via Mechanistic Explanation
B. Mental Representation (Chair: Susan Schneider (Moravian College Bethlem))
B1. Paul Wilson (Texas State University-San Marcos), Descartes on the Nature of Ideas
B2. Peter Slezak (University of New South Wales), Fodor's ëGuilty Passions': Representation as Hume's Ideas
B3. Gottfried Vosgerau (Universität Tübingen), A Classification of Mental Representations 
C. Cognitive Development (Chair: Sarah Beck (University of Birmingham))
C1. Sid Kouider, Susan Carey, Justin Halberda et. al. (Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, CEA), Infant's Understanding of the Singular-Plural Distinction
C2. Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati), On the Evidence for Prelinguistic Concepts
C3. Manuela Ungureanu (Okanagan University College), Distant Friends: Davidson's View of Belief and Meaning and the Empirical Study of Childhood Cognitive Development
C4. Ingo Brigandt (University of Pittsburgh), Conceptual Role Semantics, the Theory Theory, and Conceptual Change
D. Consciousness and Qualia (Chair: Thomas Polger (University of Cincinnati))
D1. John O'Dea (Australian National University), Qualia and the Distinction Between the Senses
D2. Andrew Bailey (University of Guelph), Multiple Realizability, Qualia, and Natural Kinds
D3. Steven Todd (University of Houston), Unmasking Multiple Drafts: A Case Study Demonstrating the Impact of Empirical Data on Theories of Consciousness
D4. Steve Torrence (Middlesex University, UK), The Explanatory Gap of Consciousness and the Justificatory Gap of Ethics: Surface Parallels or Deep Interrelations 
E. Self (Chair: Justin Fisher (University of Arizona))
E1. Guy Pinku, Joseph Tzelgov (Ben Gurion University), The Self Qua Subject and Qua Object, and Explicit Knowledge
E2. Dorothee Legrand (Université de Provence), The Sensori-Motor Roots of Pre-reflexive Consciousness
E3. Manos Tsakiris (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London), Experimenting with the Acting Self 
F. Sensation and Perception 1 (Chair: Mazviita Chirimuuta (Istituto Neuroscienze, Pisa)
F1. Olivier Massin, Touch as a Sense of Force
F2. Malika Auvray, Sylvain Hanneton, Charles Lenay, Kevin Oregan (Universite Rene Descartes), Exteriorisation in Sensory Substitution
F3. Bob Bermond (University of Amsterdam), The Emotional Feeling a Combination of Two Qualia: A Neurophilosophical Approach
G. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics (Chair: Bernhard Schroeder (University of Bonn))
G1. Paula Rubio Fernandez (Res. Centre for English & Apllied Linguistics, Cambridge), The Mechanism of Suppression in Metaphor Interpretation and Disambiguation: The Question of Below-Baseline Performance
G2. James Russell ( Cambridge University, UK), How to Save Semantic Bootstrapping Theory From ëAssimilation' with a Non-Compositional Theory of Meaning
G3. Fanny Lichtenstein (University of Barcelona), Considering the Literal-Metaphorical Distinction: The Troubles for a Cognitive and Pragmatic Approach
7:45 pm 
End of sessions 
 

MONDAY 5
 
9:30 am  Invited Speaker
Michael Posner (Oregon), Consciousness and the Development of Self Regulation 
Chair: Barbara Von Eckardt (Rhode Island School of Design)
10:45 am  Coffee break 
11:15 am Invited Speaker
Anthony Marcel ( Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK ), The Non-transparency of Consciousness
Chair: Zoltan Dienes (Sussex) 
12:30 am Poster Session 2
1:30 pm Lunch
3:00 pm 
Parallel Sessions 4

A. Contributed Symposium: The Sense of Touch

A1. Frederique A. Vignemont (Convenor)
A2. Patrick Haggard, An Implicit Representation of One's Own Body in the Sense of Touch
A3. Angelo Maravita, Multisensory, Intentional, and Cognitive Representation of Touch
A4. Michael Martin (UCL, London), Sense of Touch: Touch and Bodily Awareness Philosophy
B. Theory of Mind 1 (Chair: Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo Canada))
 

B1. Leo Ferres (Human-Oriented Technology Lab.), Explorations of the (Meta)Representational Status of Desire in the Theory-Theory of Mind Framework
B2. John Barresi (Dalhousie University), The Neuroscience of Theory of Mind
B3. Louise Roska-Hardy (Institut für deutsche Sprache Dortmund), The Concepts Involved in Reading Others' Minds
B4. Daniel Hutto (University of Hertfordshire, England), Folk Psychology Without Tacit Theory 

C. Concepts and Cognition (Chair: Jon Ringen (The University of Iowa USA))
C1. Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, et. al. (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin), Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style
C2. Nicholaus Noles, Paul Bloom (Yale University), The Ship of Theseus: Percepts, Concepts, & Object Persistence
C3. Andrzej Tarlowski (Uniwersytet Warszawski Polland), Cultural and Experiential Factors in the Structure of Naive Biology
C4. Thomas van Cantfort, Don Fawkes, Claire Hewson (Fayetteville State University & Bolton Institute, UK), Are We Reductionists? - An Empirical Study 
D. Perception and Attention (Chair: John Dunn)
D1. Mike Beaton, Romi Nijhawan (University of Sussex), A New Psychophysical Model of the Flash-Lag Effect
D2. Anne Aimola Davies (The Australian National University), Maintaining and Disengaging Attention in Unilateral Neglect
D3. Christian Giusti, Goffredo G. Pieroni, Laura Pieroni (University Of Udine Italy), Attention Trees
D4. Nicholas Bullot (Institut Jean Nicod CNRS EHESS ENS, Paris), Auditory and Crossmodal Attention for the Cognitive Access to Objects
E. Free Wil and Agency (Chair: John O'Dea (Australian NU)
E1. David Rosenthal (City University of New York Graduate Center), Consciousness and Freedom
E2. Christian Miller, The Policy Based Approach to Identification WITHDRAWAL
E3. Peter Ross (CSU, Pomona), Empirical Constraints on the Problem of Free Will
E4. Davor Bodrozic & Fabian Dorsch (University of Fribourg), The Impossibility of ìDeciding to Believeî
F. Cognitive Structure (Chair: Kristin Andrews (York University, Toronto))
F1. Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Terry Stewart (Carleton University, Canada), Reactive Agents Learn to Add Epistemic Structures to the World
F2. Simone Cutini, Demis Basso, Patrizia Bisiacchi (University of Padova Italy), Visuo-Spatial Planning: A Computational Account
F3. Christopher Mole & Gabriel Love (Princeton University), The Real Definition of Memory
G. Linguistic Development (Chair: Felipe De Brigard (Tufts))
G1. Tomoko Matsui, Taeko Yamamoto, Peter McCagg (International Christian University Tokyo), How Language Can Influence Children's Understanding of Others as Epistemic Beings
G2. Nausicaa Pouscoulous (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Scalar Implicatures and Development
G3. Elizabeth Robinson, Martin Rowley (Keele University), Children's Understanding of Interpretation: Acknowledging That One Mind Can Hold Two Possibilities
G4. Sarah Beck, DJ Carroll, EJ Robinson, IA Apperly (University of Birmingham), Young Children's Thinking About Future and Counterfactual Events as Possibilities Which Could or Could Have Happened
5:00 pm  OUP Hosted Reception

SPP Presidential Address - Frank Keil (Yale), The Bliss Of Ignorance
Chair: Colin Allen (Texas A&M University)

6:30 - 7:30 pm 
Business Meeting of each society 
SPP: room A
ESPP: room B
7:30 pm 
End of sessions 
9:00 pm  Conference dinner 
 

TUESDAY 6
 
9:30 am  Invited Symposium 
OBJECTS IN THOUGHT AND PERCEPTION
Convened by Jonathan Cohen (San Diego) 
Speakers: Roberto Casati (CNRS), Brian Scholl (Yale), Susanna Siegel (Harvard) 
11:45 am  Coffee break 
12:15 am  Invited Speaker
François Recanati (Paris), Semantic flexibility 
Chair: Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona) 
1:30 pm Lunch
3:00 pm  Parallel Sessions 5 

A. Contributed Symposium: Causal Cognition: From Inference to Explanation

A1. Laura E. Schulz, Sight Unseen: Children's Inferences About Unobserved Causes
A2. Thomas L. Griffiths (Stanford University), Coincidence As Inference
A3. Tania Lombrozo (Harvard University), Teleological Explanation: Causal Constraints and Regularities (Winner of William James Prize)
A4. James Woodward, Interventions and the Psychology of Causal Inferenceî 330
B. Contributed Symposium: Self Representation and Human Self-Consciousness
B1. Albert Newen (Universität Tübingen), How to Naturalize Self-Consciousness
B2. Kai Vogeley, Overview of Relevant Empirical Studies in Neuroscience
B3. John Campbell, The First Person, Embodiment, and The Certainty That One Exists 
C. Concepts (Chair: Ingo Brigandt (University of Pittsburgh))
C1. Andre Abath (University of Sheffield), Having a Concept: Two Bad Ideas and a Better One
C2. Fernando Martínez-Manrique & Agustín Vincente (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Conceptual Atomism and Lexical Concepts
C3. Malte Dahlgrün (Universität Bonn & Freie Universität Berlin), The proper treatment of phrasal concepts
C4. Scott Brockett (King's College, London), Millikan's Theory of the Reference of Substance Concepts, and the ëNesting' Problem
D. Problem Solving and Decision Making (Chair: Terry Stewart (Carleton University, Canada))
D1. Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Annika Wallin (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Do Gains and Losses Really Play a Role in the Framing Effect?
D2. Rocío García-Retamero, Annika Wallin, Anja Dieckmann (University of Granada), Causal Content of Information and Decision Making
D3. Matt Twyman, Nigel Harvey, Clare Harries (University College London), Implicit and Explicit Trust in Advice for Self and Others
D4. Rachel Seabrook, Wakefield Carter (Oxford Brooks University), Expertise and Conceptual Transfer in Insight Problem Solving 
E. Theory of Mind 2 (Chair: Leo Ferres (Human-Oriented Technology Lab.))
E1. Kristin Andrews (York University), Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places?
E2. Kathleen W. Smith, Vinod Goel (York University Canada), Inductive and Deductive Reasoning about Theory of Mind is Characterized Differently from Reasoning about Physical Events Involving People: an fMRI Study
E3. Jon Ringen, Ed Wasserman (The University of Iowa, USA), Non-human Communication Concerning Private States: A Second Look
E4. Richard Griffin (Tufts University USA), Representing Intentions: What counts?
F. Meta-science (Chair: Heidi Lene Maibom (Carleton))
F1. John Collins (University of East Anglia, UK), On Not Knowing a Language
F2. Felipe De Brigard, Is Psychiatry a Meanwhile-Science?
F3. Milena Nuti (University College, London), Common Sense and Ontology
F4. Pieter Van den Eeden (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The Philosophical Nature of Multilevel Propositions
G. Semantics and Thought (Chair: Chris Viger (University of Western Ontario))
G1. Panu Raatikainen (University of Helsinki), In Defense of Semantic Externalism
G2. Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo Canada), Translation and Psychological Ascription
G3. Henry Jackman (York University Canada), Holism, Context, and Content
G4. Charles Travis (University of Northwestern), Attitudes Toward Attitudes
5:00 pm Coffee / Poster Session 2
5:30 pm  Parallel Sessions 6

A. Contributed Symposium: Two-Factor Theory of Delusional Belief

A1. Timothy Bayne and Elisabeth Pacherie, Experience-Based Accounts of Delusions: Explanation or Endorsement?
A2. Tony Stone (London South Bank University), Experience and Explanation in the Aetiology of Delusional Beliefs
A3. Martin Davies (Australian National University), Anosognosia and the Two-Factor Theory of Delusional Belief
B. Simulation and the Theory Theory (Chair: Barbara Von Eckardt (Rhode Island School of Design))
B1. Heidi Maibom (Carleton University), The Presence of Others
B2. Justin Fisher (University of Arizona), Does Simulation Theory Really Involve Simulation? (Winner of the William James Prize)
B3. Julien Deonna & Bence Nanay (University Of Oxford), Identification, Attribution and the Simulation vs Theory-Theory Debate
B4. Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston), Empathy, Concepts, and Consciousness
C. Categorization (Chair: Casey O'Callaghan (Bates College))
C1. Jules Davidoff, Debi Roberson (Goldsmiths University of London), Preserved Thematic and Impaired Taxonomic Categorization
C2. Istvan Berkeley, Don Dedrick (University of Louisiana at Lafayette & University of Guelph), Finding Kinds and Modelling Abduction: New Implications for Old-Style Connectionist Networks
C3. Fei Xu (University of British Columbia), On Categorization and Individuation
C4. Nilufa Ali, Evan Heit (University of Warwick, UK), Domain Differences in Relations Between Causal Knowledge and Categorization
D. Content of Experience (Chair: Corey Wright (University of California , San Diego))
D1. Brad Thompson (Southern Methodist University Dallas), Color Constancy and Russellian Representationalism
D2. Martine Nida-Rumelin & Achill Schnetzer (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland), Basic Color and Phenomenal Composition
D3. Richard Gray (Trinity College Dublin), Secondary Qualities and Double Determinability
D4. Hsi-wen, Daniel Liu (Providence University Taiwan), Non-Descriptive Nature of Dynamic Content
E. Davidson and Psychology (Chair: Louise Roeska-Hardy)
E1. Meredith Plug (King's College London), Does the Existence of Verbally Competent Autistic Children Threaten Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language?
E2. Oron Shagrir (The Hebrew University Israel), Anomalism and Supervenience
E3. Steven Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Who Needs a Meaning Theory?
F. Explanation and Behavior (Chair: Mark Couch (Columbia University))
F1. Robrecht Vanderbeeken (Ghent University), Can Intentional and Functional Explanations of Actions Coexist?
F2. Jose E. Burgos, Realism About Behavior
F3. Petter Johansson, Lars Hall, Andreas Olsson (Lund University Cognitive Science Sweden), From Change Blindness to Choice Blindness
F4. Juan Jose Acero & Alberto Morales (Universidad de Granada), The Problem of Categorization in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Behavior
G. Modeling Language Use (Chair: Nicholas Shea)
G1. Francisco Calvo Garzón (Universidad de Murcia), Hybridity, Modularity and Non-Classical Connectionist Natural Language Parsers
G2. Michael Klein, Kenji Doya (ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories), Understanding Speaker's Meaning ­ A Neuroscientific Approach
G3. Bernhard Schröder (University of Bonn, Germany), The Artificial Evolution of Communicating Agents
7:30 pm 
End of sessions 
 


Posters

Instructions for poster presenters
 
 
Poster Session 1 (Saturday 3rd, 5-5:30 pm & Sunday 4th, 5-5:45 pm)
Ariso, José María, Delusional or merely convincing explanations?

Asgari-Targhi, Marzieh, Why do we reply with "because" when we are asked why-type questions? An inquiry concerning analysis of causal reasoning

Chandrasekharan, Sanjay, Epistemic Structure: How Agents Change the World for Cognitive Congeniality

Chirimuuta, Mazviita (Istituto di Neurofisiologia CNR, Italy), Experimentation and Defining Attention

Chmielewska, Anna, basic hope and adaptation after the natural disaster

Costello, Matthew, Unity and Differentiation: Ecological and Phenomenological Accounts of Infant Multisensory Perception

García Rodríguez, Ángel (Universidad de Murcia), Avowals and the expressive mind

Gehring, Allen, Bermudez on Infant Cognition: Why He Fails to Prove Infants Do Not Possess Concepts

Gomila, Antoni (Univ. of the Balearic Islands), How to mix evolution and cognition: a cure for modularitis

Hanna, Bednarek & Malgorzata, Wawrzyniak (Uniwersytet £ódzki Polska), Styles of perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotions

Heitner, Reese, Welcome to the Intentional Interrogation Room: Searle and the Thesis of ìStrong Human Intelligenceî

Howell, Robert, Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference

Jerzykiewicz, Luke (University of Western Ontario), Toward a naturalistic account of mathematical intuition

Kouider, Sid & Dupoux, Emmanuel & Halberda, Justin (Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, CEA), Subliminal Speech Priming

Koyasu, Masuo &Goushiki, Toru & Hattori, Keiko, A longitudinal study of "theory of mind" and its related abilities in a mixed kindergarten class

Lemaire, Stéphane, The Efficiency of Practical Thinking

Leyser, Ayala, Intention, contention and attention within the hypnotic state

Love, Gabriel (Princeton University), Augmenting the enactive approach to perception

Miñano, Meritxell & Quera, Vicenç & Beltran, Francesc S. (Universitat de Barcelona), Autonomous agents searching goals: The microworld of ACACIA

Misailidi, Plousia (University of Ioannina Greece), Autistic children's understanding of prior intentions and intentions in action

Mole, Christopher (Princeton University)What Sort of Thing is Attention?

Nanay, Bence (Berkeley), Perception and Action

Newen, Albert & Bartels, Andreas (Universität Tübingen), Animals Minds: The possession of concepts

Ponte Azcárate, María, Response-dependence and the epistemological challenge to Platonism

Rubichi, Sandro & Ricci, Ferderico & Padovani, Roberto et al (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), Hypnotic susceptibility and baseline attentional functioning

Sagarra, Nuria (Penn State University), Storage Patterns in Early and Late Bilinguals

Shapiro, Laura R & Olson, Andrew C & Lamberts, Koen (University of Warwick, UK), Does Normal Processing Provide Evidence of Specialised Semantic Subsystems?

Trogdon, Kelly (University Hall Columbus), Moral Imaginative Resistance

Vicario, Ignacio (Universidad de Salamanca), Two Notions of Reference

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Poster Session 2 (Monday 5th, 5-5:45 & Tuesday 6th, 5-5:30)
Baraff, Elizabeth & Tenenbaum, Joshua (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge)The Role of Theory of Mind Inferences in Bayesian Word Learning

Brown, Vivienne (The Open University Walton Hall, UK)Theorising action and agency?

Clarke, MurrayThe Fragmentation of Knowledge

Danovitch, Judith H. (Yale University)Beyond the sciences: Understanding morality as a domain of knowledge

De Jaegher, Hanneke (University of Sussex)Minds in Synchrony

Delogu, Franco & Auricchio, Laura & Olivetti Belardinelli, Marta (University "La Sapienza" Rome Italy)Crossmodal Interactions in Environmental Sound Recognition

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