Thursday, May 16th
9:00-9:30 am | Breakfast (Provided) |
9:30-9:45 am | Opening Remarks, James Swenson, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs |
9:45-10:45 am | Session 1 – Tom Bever, “Foundational cognitive science themes that Jerry explored” |
10:45-11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am – Noon | Session 2 – Rochel Gelman, “Innate learning and beyond: The case of number” |
Noon – 2:30 pm | Lunch (Not provided, see below for options) |
2:30-3:30 pm | Session 3 – Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, “What Jerry and I got right about what Darwin got wrong” |
3:30-3:45 pm | Coffee Break |
3:45-4:45 pm | Session 4 – David Rosenthal, “Fodor’s Representationalism” |
4:45-5:45 pm | Session 5 – Terry Horgan, “Morphological content and chromatic illumination in belief fixation” |
6:00 pm | Dinner Reception Open to All (6th Floor WEST Wing of the Academic Building) |
Friday, May 17th
9:00-9:15 am | Breakfast (Provided) |
9:15-10:15 am | Session 6 – Louise Antony, “Not psychological, but not brutely causal either” |
10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30-11:30 am | Session 7 – Kevan Edwards, “Fodor* on concepts, Frege’s Problem, and the division of explanatory labor” |
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Session 8 – Eric Margolis, “Understanding concept nativism” |
12:30-3:00 pm | Lunch (Not provided, see below for options) |
3:00-4:00 pm | Session 9 – Susan Schneider, “Conscious machines? A sober-minded approach” |
4:00-4:15 pm | Coffee Break |
4:15-5:15 pm | Session 10 – Georges Rey, “Fodor’s mis-guided Quineanism” |
5:15-6:15 pm | Session 11 – Randy Gallistel, “It’s numbers all the way down” |
6:15-6:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Space is limited, so if you plan to attend, please click here to RSVP.
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