Program
| Times | Thursday April 11th | Friday April 12th | Saturday April 13th | Sunday April 14th |
| 9-9:15 | greetings | greetings | greetings | greetings |
| 9:15-10:00 | Dr. Charles Wallis In Principle Arguments Against Dynamic Connectionism |
Dr. John Bickle Lessons for methodology in Cognitive Neuroscience from a Combined Neurocomputational Modeling-fMRI Project |
Dr. Mathew McCormick Questions about Functionalism in Kant’s Philosophy of Mind: Lessons for Cognitive Science |
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| 10:00-10:45 | Dr. Chris Eliasmith Foundations of Cognitive Science: Continuity, Dynamics, and Representation |
Dr. George Terzis Creative Insight in Duncker's Candle Problem: A Neurobiological Perspective |
Dr. Franz-Peter Griesmaier |
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| 10:45-11:30 | Dr. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Internalist Versus Proceduralist Approaches to Decision making |
Dr. Don Hoffman | Keith Gibbs |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | End of conference | |
| 12:45-1:30 | Dr. Michael Bishop Dr. J.D. Trout Epistemology as Philosophy of Science |
Dr. William Ramsey |
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| 1:30-2:15 | Dr. Joseph Cruz Neither Revolution Nor Mere Implementation — How Connectionism Constrains Some Psychological Explanations |
Dr. Valerie Gray Hardcastle | Dr. Robert Cummins Cognitive Evolutionary Psychology Without Representational Nativism |
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| 2:15-3:00 | Dr. Ronald N. Giere The Role of Computation in Scientific Cognition |
Susan Schnieder Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases |
Dr. Denise Dellarosa Cummins The Evolution and Development of Social Cognition |
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| 3:00-3:30 | Break | Break | Break | |
| 3:30-4:45 | David Byrd Attractor Compositionality: A Critique of Gardenfors’s Account of Conceptual Combination |
Free Time |
Jorge Fernandez Explanation by Simulation |
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| 4:45-6:30 | Free Time | Free Time | Free Time | |
| 6:30-8:00 Talks begin at 7:15pm All dinner talks and receptions are in Coastline Room A of the Long Beach Guesthouse |
Dinner Talk with Dr. William Bechtel Mechanism, Dynamics, and Visual Experience |
Dinner Talk with Dr. Irving Biederman Shape Recognition, Consciousness, and Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure in the Temporal Cortex |
Dinner Talk with Dr. Ned Block |
Those who wish to attend the dinners prior
to the talks can make arrangements at the registration desk. We will
accommodate as many as possible. Cost Thursday $11 Friday $11 Saturday $11 Dinner costs should be paid in cash only. |
| 8:00-10:00 | Reception | Reception | Reception |