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Program of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
June 21 -23, University of California, San Diego
For program information: William Bechtel (SPP Program Chairman),
Philosophy Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 30303-3083
phone: (404)-658-2277 bitnet address: psuvax1!phlpwb%GSUMVS1.BITNET
For membership information: Patricia Kitcher, Philosophy Department,
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093
arpanet address: sdcsvax!ir205%sdcc6
-------- SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1987 --------
9:00 - 11:00am SYMPOSIUM: DEPRESSION, COGNITION, AND RATIONALITY
Chair: Evalyn Segal, Psychology, San Diego State University
Speakers: George Graham, Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Christopher Peterson, Psychology, University of Michigan
Lynn Rehm, Psychology, University of Houston
Commentator: Richard Garrett, Philosophy, Bentley College
1:00 - 3:15pm CONCURRENT CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSIONS I AND II
SESSION I: Behavior and Belief
Chair: James Pate, Psychology, Georgia State Unviersity
Speaker: Ruth Garrett Millikan, Philosophy, University of Connecticut
"What is Behavior? or Why Narrow Psychology/Ethology is Impossible"
Commentator: John Biro, Philosophy, University of Oklahoma
Speaker: David Martel Johnson, Philosophy, York University
"'Brutes Believe Not': Why Non-Human Animals Have No Beliefs"
Commentator: Carolyn Ristau, Psychology, Vassar
SESSION II: Computational Theories of Mind
Chair: Owen Flanagan, Philosophy, Wellesley
Speaker: David Kirsch, Artificial Intelligence, MIT
"The Concept of Computation in Connectionist Systems"
Commentator: Brian Cantwell Smith, Computer Science, Xerox PARC
Speaker: Joseph Levine, Philosophy, North Carolina State University
"Demonstrative Thought"
Commentator: La Verne Shelton, Educational Testing Service, Princeton
3:30-5:00pm INVITED LECTURE: LANGUAGES OF THE DEAF
Chair: Adele Abrahamsen, Language Research Center, Georgia State
Speaker: Howard Poizner, Salk Institute, San Diego
"Brain Function for Language: Perspectives from Another Modality"
7:00-10:00pm SYMPOSIUM: ANALOGY AND LEARNING
Chair: Paul Thagard, Cognitive Science, Princeton
Speakers: Dedre Gentner, Psychology, University of Illinois
Doug Medin, Psychology, University of Illinois
Keith Holyoak, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Commentator: Eva Kittay, Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook
----- MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1987 --------
9:00-11:30am SYMPOSIUM: CONNECTIONISM AND IMAGE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURES
Chair: Patricia Churchland, Philosophy, University California, San Diego
Speakers: David Rumelhart, Psychology, University of California, San Diego
George Lakoff, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Johnson, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University
Terrence Sejnowski, Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
12:30-2:45pm CONCURRENT CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSIONS III, IV, AND V
Session III: Logic and Reasoning
Chair: Ralph Kennedy, Philosophy, Wake Forest
Speaker: David Sanford, Philosophy, Duke University
"Circumstantial Validity"
Commentator: John Rust, Psychology, London School of Education
Speaker: Howard Margolis, Committee on Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Habits of Mind"
Commentator: Stuart Silvers, Philosophy, Tilburg University
Session IV: Mentalistic Explanations
Chair:
Speaker: Joseph Thomas Tolliver, Philosophy, University of Maryland
"Knowledge Without Truth"
Commentator: Kent Bach, Philosophy, San Fransciso State University
Speaker: Louise M. Antony, Philosophy, North Carolina State University
"Anomalous Monism and the Problem of Explanatory Force"
Commentator: Ken Presting, Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Session V: Subjective Experience
Chair: Hilary Kornblith, Philosophy, Vermont
Speaker: James S. Kelly, Philosophy, Miami University
"On Quining Qualia"
Commentator: Henry Jacoby, Philosophy, East Carolina University
Speaker: Richard J. Hall, Philosophy, Michigan State University
"Is An Inverted Pain-Pleasure Spectrum Possible?"
Commentator:
3:00-5:30pm SYMPOSIUM: CONCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC CHANGE IN CHILDHOOD AND SCIENCE
Chair:
Speakers: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, MRC, Cognitive Development Unit
Alison Gopnik, Psychology, University of Toronto
Susan Carey, Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Kitcher, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
8:00-9:00pm PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Chair: Alvin Goldman, Philosophy, Arizona
Speaker: Stevan Harnad, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
"Uncomplemented Categories, or, What Is It Like To Be a Bachelor?"
------ TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1987 ------
9:00-11:00am SYMPOSIUM: SEMANTICS
Chair: Richard Jeffrey, Philosophy, Princeton
Speakers: Mark Johnston, Philosophy, Princeton
Barbara Hall Partee, Linguistics, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
Norbert Hornstein, Linguistic, University of Maryland
Commentator: Stephen Schiffer, Philosophy, University of Southern California
11:15-12:30pm INVITED LECTURE: Memory and Brain
Chair:
Speaker: Larry R. Squire, Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
"Memory and Brain: Neural Systems and Behavior"
1:30-3:45pm CONCURRENT CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONS VI AND VII
SESSION VI: CONCEPTS
Chair: Bernard Kobes, Philosophy, Arizona State University
Speaker: Kenneth R. Livingston & Janet Andrews, Psychology, Vassar College
"Reflections on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Psychology in the Study of Concepts?: Is there Madness in our Methods?"
Commentator: Robert McCauley, Philosophy, Emory University
Speaker: Andrew Woodfield, Philosophy, Bristol
"A Two-Tiered Model of Concept Formation"
Commentator:
SESSION VII: INTENTIONALITY
Chair: Douglas G. Winblad, Philosophy, Georgia State University
Speaker: Ron Amundson, Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Hilo
"Doctor Dennett and Doctor Pangloss"
Commentator: Justin Leiber, Philosophy, University of Houston
Speaker: Robert Van Gulick, Philosophy, Syracuse
"Consciousness, Intrinsic Intentionality,
and Self- Understanding Machines"
Commentator: Nick Georgalis, Philosophy, East Carolina University
4:00-5:30pm INVITED LECTURE: CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair:
Speakers: Daniel Dennett, Philosophy, Tufts University
Kathleen Akins, Philosophy, Tufts University
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