Monday 28 September 2009

Ayer on Logical Positivism

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Monday 21 September 2009

Philosophical & Psychological Issues Conference

This weekend James Dow (of Selbsttatigkeit) and I will be taking part in the 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical & Psychological Issues Conference at the University of South Alabama. Below is a copy of the conference schedule with links to the abstracts of the various papers.


Friday Speaker Topic and Abstract

8:30-9:10

Michael S. Gordon

On the Division of the Senses

9:15-9:55

Jack Shelley-Tremblay

Event-related Potentials Index Aspects of Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

10:00-10:45

David Bunch, Jonathan D. Walker & Alen Hajnal
Lateralization of sequence learning and transfer in a tactuo-spatial task

10:40-11:20

Kenneth Aizawa

Noe‘s Strong and Weak Enactivism

11:25-12:25

John Bickle

From Psychological Generalizations to Neuromolecular Mechanisms: Explanations ‘in a Single Bound'

Lunch at facility



1:30-2:10

James Beebe

Surprising Connections Between Knowledge and
Intentional Action: The Robustness of the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect

2:15-3:05

Daniel A. Weiskopf

The Architecture of the Embodied Mind

3:10-4:00

Andrea
Scarantino

Unconscious Emotions: Respectable, Useful, and Probably
Necessary





Saturday



9:30 - 10:10

Avery Archer

Desires as Sub-agential Evaluations of the Good

10:15 - 10:55
Elise Labbé-Coldsmith
Mindfulness: Defining and Measuring from a Biopsychosocial Perspective

11:00-11:40

Richard Hine

Attention as Phenomenal Consciousness: For Richer, For Poorer

11:45-12:25

James Dow

Against Cognitive Descriptivism: Self-Ascription, Identification, and the Subject Principle

For more information, see the conference website here.