Friday, March 29, Connecticut Hall, Faculty Room

11AM–12:15PM

The Role of Empathy in Linguistic Understanding, Herman Cappelen, Oslo & St Andrews

12:15–1:15

Lunch

1:15–2:30

The Many Ways of Understanding Others, John Bengson, UW-Madison

2:30–3:45

Scaling the Epistemic Wall in Moral Decision-making, Molly Crockett, Yale

4:00–5:15

Understanding in the Natural and Social Sciences, Kareem Khalifa, Middlebury

5:15–6:30

Bad at Empathy, Paul Bloom, Yale

7:00

Party at Laurie Paul’s house

Saturday, March 30, Connecticut Hall, Faculty Room

10AM–11:15

Arrogance and Misunderstanding What Matters, Michael Patrick Lynch, UConn

11:15–12:30PM

Lunch

12:30–1:30

Distinct Forms of Explanatory Understanding Support Abstraction and Mental Simulation, Tania Lombrozo, Princeton

1:30–2:45

Capturing the Character of Others, David Pizarro, Cornell

3:00–4:15

Humanistic Understanding, Michael Strevens, NYU

4:15–5:30

How ”Inappropriate" Affect Signals Emotional Propensities: The Case of Agent-Regret, Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell & Shaun Nichols, Arizona