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SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Call for Papers for 1987 Annual Meeting
University of California at SAN Diego, June 21 - 23 1987
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology is calling for contributed
papers and symposium proposals for its 13th annual meeting in San Diego.
The Society consists of psychologists, philosophers, and other
cognitive scientists with common interests in the study of behavior,
cognition, language, the nervous system, artificial intelligence,
consciousness, and the foundations of psychology.
Past participants in annual meetings have included: N. Chomsky,
D. Dennett, J. Fodor, C. R. Gallistel, J. J. Gibson, S. J. Gould,
R. L. Gregory, R. J. Herrnstein, D. Hofstadter, J. jaynes, G. A. Miller,
H. Putnam, Z. Pylyshyn, W. V. Quine, R. Schank, W. Sellars and
P. Teitelbaum.
Contributed Papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality
and relevance to both psychologists and philosophers. Psychologists,
neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and biologists are
encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and clinical work that
they judge to have philosophical significance.
Contributed papers are for oral presentation and should not exceed a
length of 30 minutes (about 12 double-spaced pages). The deadline for
submision is 12 January, 1987. Please send three copies to the
Program Chairman:
Professor William Bechtel
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Department of Philosophy
Georgia State University
Atlanta GA 30303-3083
Phone: (404) 658-2277
Symposium proposals should also be sent to the above address as soon
as possible.
Local Arrangements: Professor Patricia Kitcher, B-002, Department of
Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093.
Individuals interested in becoming members of the Society should send
$15 membership dues ($5 for students) to Professor Kitcher at the
above address.
SPP Officers: President: Stevan Harnad (Behavioral & Brain Sciences)
President-Elect: Alvin I. Goldman (U. Arizona)
Secretary Treasurer: Patricia Kitcher (UCSD)
Program Chairman: William Bechtel (U. Georgia)
Executive Committee:
Myles Brand (U. Arizona) R. S. Jackendoff (Brandeis)
Daniel Dennett (Tufts) William Lycan (U. N. Carolina)
Fred Dretske (U. Wisconsin) John Macnamara (McGill)
Jerome A. Feldman (U. Rochester) Carolyn Ristau (Rockefeller)
Janet Fodor (CUNY) Anne Treisman (UC, Berkeley)
Alison Gopnik (U. Toronto) Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse U.)
Charles C. Wood (Yale)
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