Conference in Honor of Jerry Fodor (2019-05-16)

When:

May 16, 2019 – May 17, 2019 all-day

2019-05-16T00:00:00-04:00

2019-05-18T00:00:00-04:00

Where:

Academic Building, Room 1180, Rutgers
15 Seminary Pl
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
USA

Cost:

Free

Rutgers

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)

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.

Conference in Honor of Jerry Fodor