harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) (05/28/87)
*** Society for Philosophy and Psychology - 1987 Program ***
University of California, San Diego -- June 21 - 23 1987
For information:
Program Chairman: William Bechtel (Philosophy, Georgia State
University) phlpwb@GSUMV1.BITNET
Secretary/Treasurer: Patricia Kitcher (Philosophy, UCSD) ir205@sdcc6%sdcsvax
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1987
9:00 - 11:00 A.M. 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 - 3:15 P.M 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 Kirsh, Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
"The Concept of Computation in Connectionist Systems"
Commentator: Brian Cantwell Smith, Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Zerox PARC
Speaker: Joseph Levine, Philosophy, North Carolina State University
"Demonstrative Thought"
Commentator: La Verne Shelton, Educational Testing Service, Princeton
3:30-5:00 P.M. INVITED LECTURE
Chair: Professor Alex Rosenberg, Department of Philosophy, University of
California--Riverside
Speaker: Howard Poizner, Salk Institute, San Diego
"Brain Function for Language: Perspectives from Another
Modality"
7:00-10:00 P.M. SYMPOSIUM: SIMILARITY, 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
9:00-11:30 A.M. SYMPOSIUM: CONNECTIONISM AND IMAGE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURES
Chair: Patricia Churchland, Philosophy, University of 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
12:30-2:45 P.M. 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: George Wood, School of Law, Harvard University
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: Terry Horgan, Philosophy, Memphis State
3:00-5:30 P.M. SYMPOSIUM: CONCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC CHANGE IN CHILDHOOD AND
SCIENCE
Chair: Adele Abrahamsen, Language Research Center, Georgia State and
Emory University
Speakers: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Medical Research Council Cognitive
Development Unit
Alison Gopnik, Psychology, Scarborough College, University of
Toronto
Susan Carey, Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Kitcher, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
8:00-9:00 P.M. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Chair: Alvin Goldman, Philosophy, Arizona
Speaker: Stevan Harnad, SPP President, Behavioral & Brain Sciences
"Uncomplemented Categories, Or, What is It Like To Be a Bachelor?"
Reception afterward given by Chancellor and Mrs. Richard C. Atkinson at
University House, UCSD
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1987
8:30-11:00 A.M. SYMPOSIUM: SEMANTICS
Chair: Richard Jeffrey, Philosophy, Princeton
Speakers: Mark Johnston, Philosophy, Princeton
Barbara Hall Partee, Linguistics, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Norbert Hornstein, Linguistic, University of Maryland
Commentator: Stephen Schiffer, Philosophy, University of Arizona
11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. INVITED LECTURE
Chair: Professor Fred Dretske, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
Speaker: Larry R. Squire, Research Career Scientist, Veterans
Administration Medical Center, San Diego, and Psychiatry,
University of California, San Diego
"Memory and Brain: Neural Systems and Behavior"
1:30-3:45 P.M. CONCURRENT CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONS VI AND VII
SESSION VI: CONCEPTS
Chair: Bernard Kobes, Philosophy, Arizona State University
Speaker: Kenneth R. Livingston and 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"
Commentaror: Paul Boghossian, Philosophy, Michigan
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
4:00-5:30 P.M. INVITED LECTURE: CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: William G. Lycan, Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Speakers: Daniel Dennett, Philosophy, Tufts University
Kathleen Akins, Philosophy, Tufts University
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