[net.philosophy] Philosophy/Psychology/Cog-Sci. Conference

mab@tilt.FUN (Marie Bienkowski) (03/11/85)

PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS FOR MEETING OF SOCIETY FOR  PHILOSOPHY  AND
PSYCHOLOGY

University of Toronto Wednesday May 15 - Saturday May 18, 1985



For information about the program [note that there may  still  be
room  for  some  discussants or speakers], the usenet address for
the Program Chairman, Stevan Harnad, is:

bellcore!princeton!mind!srh

or write to:  Stevan Harnad, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 20 Nas-
sau Street, Suite 240, Princeton NJ 08540

For information about local arrangements, write to: David  Olson,
McLuhan Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

For information about the Society and attendance, write to:  Owen
Flanagan, Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Philosophy & Psycholo-
gy, Philosophy Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181


Program follows [participant lists are in several cases only par-
tial; other contributors will also be on the program]:


Workshop (2 full sessions)

Ia &  Ib.  Artificial  Intelligence  Versus  Neural  Modeling  in
Psychological Theory

Participants include: P. & P. Churchland,  P.C. Dodwell, J. Feld-
man,  A.  Goldman, S. Grossberg, S.J.  Hanson, A. Newell, A. Pel-
lionisz, R. Schank.


Symposia (10)


II. Category Formation

Participants include: S. Harnad, R. Jackendoff, N. Macmillan,  C.
Mervis, R.  Millikan, R. Schank.


III. Unconscious Processing

Participants include: T. Carr, A. Marcel, P. Merikle.


IV. Memory and Consciousness

Participants include: K. Bowers, M. Moscovitch, D.  Schacter,  A.
Marcel, R.  Lockhart, E. Tulving.


V. New Directions in Evolutionary Theory

Participants include: A. Rosenberg, M. Ruse, E. Sober.


VI. Paradoxical Neurological Syndromes

Participants include: A. Kertesz, A. Marcel, M. Moscovitch


VII. The Empirical Status of Psychoanalytic Theory

Participants include: M. Eagle, E. Erwin, A.  Grunbaum,  J.  Mas-
ling, B. von Eckardt.


VIII. The Scientific Status of Parapsychological Research

Participants include: J. Alcock, C.  Honorton,  R.L.  Morris,  M.
Truzzi.


IX. The Reality of the "G" (General) Factor  in  the  Measurement
and Modeling of Intelligence

Participants include: A. Jensen, W. Rozeboom.


X. The  Ascription  of  Knowledge  States  to  Children:  Seeing,
Believing and Knowing

Participants include: D. Olson & J. Astington,  J.  Perner  &  H.
Wimmer, M. Taylor & J. Flavell, F. Dretske, S. Kuczaj.


XI. Psychology, Pictures and Drawing

Participants include: J. Caron-Prague, S. Dennis, J. Kennedy,  D.
Pariser, S.  Wilcox, J. Willats, S. Brison



Contributed Paper Sessions (4):


XII. Perception and Cognition


To What Extent Do Beliefs Affect Apparent Motion (M.  Dawson,  R.
Wright)

Images, Pictures and Percepts (D. Reisberg, D. Chambers)

What the First Words Tell Us About Meaning and Cognition (A. Gop-
nik)


XIII. Induction and Information


Beyond Holism: Induction in the Context  of  Problem-Solving  (P.
Thagard, K.  Holyoak)

The Semantic of Pragmatics (M.A. Gluck, J.E. Corter)

About Promises (J. Astington)


XIV. Evolution of Cognitive and Social Structures


Is Decision Theory Reducible to Evolutionary Biology? (W.E. Coop-
er)

Human Nature, Love and Morality: The Possibility of Altruism  (L.
Thomas)

On How to Get Rid of the Craftsman (B. Dahlbom)


XV. Inferences About the Mind


The Puzzle of Split-Brain Phenomena (S.C. Bringsjord)

The Mark of the Mental (R. Puccetti)

Natural Teleology (S. Silvers)


Abstracts available from Stevan Harnad, bellcore!princeton!mind!srh