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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