The Explanations of Cognition workshop takes place at the University of Stirling, 20-22 July 2015.
Registration is free but space is very limited: please email Zoe Drayson if you wish to attend.
Provisional schedule available to download here.
Speakers
Fred Adams (Delaware) 'A slim defense of narrow content'
Ken Aizawa (Rutgers Newark) 'The enactivist revolution'
Zoe Drayson (Stirling) 'Cognition as prediction'
Carrie Figdor (Iowa) 'Psychological concepts in non-psychological sciences: what the real “Scientific Image” looks like'
Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois) 'Cognitive neuroscience and the explanation of personal vs. subpersonal cognition'
Lena Kastner (Humboldt Berlin) 'Mapping the experimental landscape'
Beate Krickel (Bochum) 'The dimensioned view of constitutive mechanisms'
Tom Polger (Cincinnati) 'Computational explanation reconsidered'
Rob Rupert (Colorado) 'The primacy of subpersonal content'
Christian Sachse (Lausanne) 'Possible limits of reductive explanations'
Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin) 'Matters of the flesh: the role(s) of body in cognition'
Jacqueline Sullivan (Western Ontario) 'The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project: hope or hype for revolutionizing psychiatric classification?'
Kari Theurer (Trinity College Connecticut) 'More information, better explanations: Reductionism in biological psychiatry'