The conference will comprise four weeklong sessions. The papers in each session will be posted the weekend before the official start date for anyone who wants to read the papers in advance. The commentaries will be posted on the official start date. Comments will open to the public once the invited commentaries have been posted. The schedule is as follows:
August 31 – September 4: Social Cognition
KEYNOTE: Tony Jack and Jared Friedman (Case Western Reserve): “Mapping cognitive structure onto the landscape of philosophical debate: an empirical framework with relevance to problems of consciousness, free will and ethics”
- Saray Ayala (San Francisco State): “Explaining Injustice in Speech: Individualistic vs. Structural Explanation”
- Commentators: Alex Madva and Valerie Soon
- Marta Halina (Cambridge): “Inference and Error in Comparative Psychology: The Case of Mindreading”
- Commentators: Kristin Andrews, Robert Lurz, and Irina Mikhalevich
- Luke Roelofs (Toronto): “Amodal Mind-Perception: Combining Inferentialism and Perceptualism”
- Commentators: Jessie Munton and Joel Smith
- Evan Westra (Maryland): “Talking about Minds: Social Experience, Pragmatic Development, and the False Belief Task”
- Commentators: John Michael, Shannon Spaulding, and J. Robert Thompson
September 7-11: Perception and Consciousness
KEYNOTE: Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz) “Bayesian Perception is Ecological Perception”
- Derek H. Brown (Brandon University): “Colour Layering and Colour Relationalism”
- Commentators: Mazviita Chirimuuta and Jonathan Cohen
- Jonathan Farrell (Manchester): “‘What It Is Like’ Talk Is Not Technical Talk”
- Commentators: Robert Howell and Myrto Mylopoulos
- E.J. Green (Rutgers University): “Structure Constancy”
- Commentators: John Hummel and Jake Quilty-Dunn
- Assaf Weksler (Open University of Israel and Ben Gurion University): “Retinal Images and Object Files: Towards Empirically Evaluating Philosophical Accounts of Visual Perspective”
- Commentators: René Jagnow and Joulia Smortchkova
September 14-18: Belief and Reasoning
KEYNOTE: Ram Neta (UNC) “Basing Is Conjuring”
- Grace Helton (University of Antwerp): “The Revisability View of Belief”
- Commentators: Michael Bishop, Mary Salvaggio, and Neil Van Leeuwen
- Jack Marley-Payne (MIT): “Against Intellectualist Theories of Belief”
- Commentators: Keith Frankish and Eric Schwitzgebel
- Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales): “What Reasoning Might Be”
- Commentators: Matthew Boyle, Zoe Jenkin, and Chris Tucker
September 21-25: Philosophy of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
KEYNOTE: Karen Neander (Duke): “Why I’m Not A Content Pragmatist”
- Marcelo Fischborn (Federal University of Santa Maria): “Libet-Style Experiments, Neuroscience, and Libertarian Free Will”
- Commentators: Eddy Nahmias and Adina Roskies
- Madeleine Ransom and Sina Fazelpour (UBC): “Three Problems for the Predictive Coding Theory of Attention”
- Commentators: Jakob Hohwy and Carolyn Jennings
- Miguel Ángel Sebastián (UNAM) and Marc Artiga (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy): “Information and Metacognition”
- Commentators: Rosa Cao and Dan Ryder
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Organizers
Cameron Buckner (Houston)
Nick Byrd (Florida State)
John Schwenkler (Florida State)
Session Coordinators
Brett Castellanos (Florida State) — Philosophy of Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
Jorge Morales (Columbia) — Perception & Consciousness
Mirja Pérez De Calleja (Florida State) — Belief & Reasoning
Brandon Tinklenberg (Houston) — Social Cognition
Special thanks to
Kyle Boerstler (Florida State)
Aaron Brooks (Florida State)
Felipe De Brigard (Duke)
James Genone (Rutgers)
Pavel Nitchovski (Houston)
Josh Weisberg (Houston)
Thank you to everyone who submitted a paper, commented on a paper, shared the conference, and/or participated.