11:30 am - 12:30 pm Invited Talk #1: Alva Noë
(Vari B)
Magical Realism and the Limits of Intelligibility: What Makes Us Conscious?
12:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Session C: Perception and Illusions
(Vari B)
Session D: Causality and Theory of Mind
(Vari C)
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Coffee
(Courtyard)
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Invited Talk #2: Renee Baillargeon
(Vari B)
Psychologial Reasoning in Infancy
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Invited Talk #3: Bertram Malle
(Vari B)
Explaining Explanations: How Humans Find Meaning in Social Behavior
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm Poster Display & Reception
(Michelangelo's)
Saturday, June 16th
8:30 am - 6:30 pm Registration
(Vari 1152A)
8:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee
(Courtyard)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Session E: Innateness, Learning, & Cognitive Architecture
(Vari B)
Session F: Externalism and Situated Cognition
(Vari C)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Invited Symposium #2: Experimental Philosophy
(Vari B)
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Coffee
(Courtyard)
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Invited Talk #4: James Blair
(Vari B)
The What and Where of a Care Based Moral Intuition
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Presidential Address: David Sanford
(Vari B)
Seven Grades of Perceptual Involvement
6:30 pm Bus to Banquet
(Meet in Vari Rotunda)
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 B)
- Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe
- Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom
- David Pizzaro
11:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Break & Business Meeting
(Michelangelo's)
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Invited Symposium #4: Animal Culture and Cognition
(Vari B)
- Venkat Lakshminarayanan and Laurie Santos
- Victorial Horner
- Lori Gruen
INVITED SPEAKERS
John Doris is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. His research is located at the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophical ethics. In his book Lack of Character (Cambridge 2002), Doris argues that behaviour is extraordinarily sensitive to variation in circumstance. He draws on an array of social scientific research, especially experimental social psychology, to show that people often grossly overestimate the behavioral impact of character and grossly underestimate the behavioral impact of situations. He then considers the implications of this observation for a range of issues in ethics, arguing that with more realistic picture effect, cognition, and motivation, moral psychology can support more compelling ethical theories and more humane ethical practices. Doris’ current research involves both theoretical and empirical research on moral responsibility, evaluative diversity, rationality, and the self.
Renee Baillargeon is an Alumni Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Baillargeon's research focuses on early conceptual development in three core domains: physical reasoning, psychological reasoning, and biologial reasoning. In her research on physical reasoning, Dr. Baillargeon examines her infants' ability to predict and interpret the outcomes of physical events. In her research on psychological reasoning, Dr. Baillargoen has been exploring infants'; ability to predict and interpret the actions of agents. In particular, she has focued on whether infants can attribute to others misperceptions and false beliefs, and the implications of such attributions for theory and research on the development of infants' "theory of mind".
James Blair is Chief of the Unit of Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. His primary research interest invovles the neural mechanisms underlying the regulation of emotion in humans, and the neurobiology of anxiety disorder. He has published extensively on these areas including patient groups characterized by psychopathy, "acquired sociopathy", autism, and conduct disorder.
Bertram Malle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon. His research is focused on social cognition and the ordinary understanding of the mind.
Alva Noë is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He works principally on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and he has been a leading voice in recent efforts to develop an enactive theory of perception.
INVITED SYMPOSIA SPEAKERS
Lori Gruen is associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where she also chairs the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and directs the Ethics in Society Project. She has published widely on topics in practical ethics, including animal ethics and mind, feminist ethics and politics, and philosophy of law. Gruen has recently co-authored a book (2007) with Laura Grabel and Peter Singer on the ethical issues in stem cell research.
Kiley Hamlin is a graduate student at Yale University working with Dr. Karen Wynn and Dr. Paul Bloom. She is interested in the origins of our moral intuitions, particularly whether young infants are able to make moral attributions. She has recently completed a series of studies demonstrated that preverbal infants evaluate others based on their actions towards other individuals.
Victoria Horner is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews working in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Whiten and Dr. Frans de Waal at Emory University. Her research examines how chimpanzees learn to use tools by observing other members of their community, and to what extent their understanding of causality effects what they learn. In addition, she has recently begun an experimental investigation of chimpanzee culture in two demographically similar captive communities.
Anne Jaap Jacobson is professor of philosophy and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, where she is also director of the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. Her recent research focuses on the role of "Aristotelian representations" in recent cognitive neuroscience and its implications for an enactive theory of the mind.
Joshua Knobe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily on issues at the intersection of cognitive science and moral philosophy. Much of his recent research has been concerned with the relationship between folk psychology and moral judgment. He is one of the pioneers of the field of experimental philosophy.
Eddy Nahmias is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Brains & Behavior Program at Georgia State University. His research focuses on philosophy of mind and moral psychology, especially the free will problem, as well as experimental philosophy. His co-authors, Justin Coates and Trevor Kvaran, are completing their Masters degrees in philosophy at Georgia State. Coates is beginning his PhD in philosophy at University of California, Riverside. Kvaran is beginning his PhD in psychology at University of Arizona.
Venkat Lakshminarayanan is a graduate student in the department of psychology at Yale University. He is interested in the evolution of rationality and studies the decision-making biases of captive capuchin monekys and has most recently examined how capuchin monkeys play economic games.
Mohan Matthen holds a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively about the philosophy of perception and on issues in the philosophy of biology and evolution.
John Mikhail is Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, with a secondary appointment in the Georgetown Philosophy Department. His primary research lies at the intersection of law, moral philosophy, and cognitive science. He has published extensively on these topics, and he is currently writing a book on the concept of a universal moral grammar and its implications for moral and legal theory.
David Pizarro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. His primary research interests are in moral judgment. He is particularly interested in moral intuitions (especially concerning moral responsibility, and the permissibility or impermissibility of certain acts) and in biases that affect moral judgment.
Rebecca Saxe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Her research explores the neural and psychological basis of social cognition, with a particular focus on theory of mind, folk psychology, and moral beliefs. Her work aims both to address more specific questions about the psychological and nueral mechanisms of social cognition, and to use these mechanisms as a window to study the broader questions of the structure of the mind.
Evan Thompson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research has been bridging the gap between phenomenology and cognitive science.
Liane Young is a graduate student in the department of psychology at Harvard University. Liane investigatest the psychology of moral decision-making. She is interested in the cognitive mechanisms underlying our moral judgments or moral intutions. Her work aims to uncover the parameters of moral scenarios relevant to our judgments by comparing a large sample of normal subjects with patient populations, including people on the autistic spectrum and those with frontal lobe damage.
