Year two conference:
Culture and the innate mind
The second annual AHRB conference for the Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project took place 2-5 July 2003 at the University of Sheffield.
This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind.
To what extent are mature cognitive capacities a reflection of particular cultures and to what extent are they a product of innate elements?
How do innate elements interact with culture to achieve mature cognitive capacities?
How do minds generate and shape cultures?
How are cultures processed by minds?
Rita Astuti, Anthropology, LSE
Scott Atran, Anthropology, Paris and Michigan
Brian Butterworth, ICN and Psychology, UCL
Peter Carruthers, Philosophy, Maryland
Susan Dwyer, Philosophy, UM-BC
Marcus Giaquinto, Philosophy, UCL
Patricia Greenspan, Philosophy, Maryland
Paul Griffiths, HPS, Pittsburgh
David Papineau, Philosophy, KCL
Edmund Rolls, Experimental Psychology, Oxford
Paul Rozin, Psychology, Pennsylvania
Michael Siegal, Psychology, Sheffield
Elizabeth Spelke, Psychology, Harvard
Dan Sperber, CNRS, Paris
Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich, Philosophy, Rutgers
Kim Sterelny, Philosophy, Victoria & ANU
David Sloan Wilson, Biology, Binghamton
Schedule
Schedule, Word version (DOC, 77KB)
Wednesday 2 July
11am to 1pm
Arrival, registration, coffee
1 to 1.15pm
Welcome
1.15 to 2pm
David Papineau: The Baldwin effect and social learning
2 to 2.30pm
Open discussion
2.30 to 3.15pm
Coffee
3.15 to 4pm
Paul Rozin: About 17 claims about links between the innate mind and culture: Preadaptation, predispositions, preferences, pathways and domains
4 to 4.30pm
Open discussion
4.30 to 5.15pm
Coffee
5.15 to 6pm
Paul Griffiths: Does the Baldwin effect merit our continued interest?
6 to 6.30pm
Open discussion
6.30 to 7.30pm
Reception
7.30pm
Dinner
Thursday 3 July
9.30 to 10.15am
Susan Dwyer: How good is the linguistic analogy?
10.15 to 10.45am
Open Discussion
10.45 to 11.15am
Coffee
11.15am to 12pm
Michael Siegal: Constraints on cognitive development: Evidence from the study of food, cosmology, and theory of mind.
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
12.30 to 2pm
Buffet lunch
2 to 2.45pm
Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich: Explaining social norms: Psychological and evolutionary foundations.
2.45 to 3.15pm
Open discussion
3.15 to 4pm
Coffee
4 to 4.45pm
Elizabeth Spelke: Core knowledge and culturally-dependent cognitive skills: Number
4.45 to 5.15pm
Open discussion
5.15 to 6pm
Coffee
6 to 6.45pm
Peter Carruthers: Practical reasoning in a modular mind
6.45 to 7.15pm
Open discussion
7.30pm
Dinner
Friday 4 July
9.30 to 10.15am
Rita Astuti: Folkbiology and folksociology in Madagascar: Culture, development and cognitive constraints
10.15 to 10.45am
Open discussion
10.45 to 11.15am
Coffee
11.15am to 12pm
Kim Sterelny: Cognitive load and human decision, or three ways of rolling the rock uphill
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
12.30 to 2pm
Buffet lunch
2 to 2.45pm
Brian Butterworth: Eight arguments for the innateness of a capacity for cardinality; but I'll only have time for four
2.45 to 3.15pm
Open discussion
3.15 to 4pm
Coffee
4 to 4.45pm
Patricia Greenspan: Emotions, innateness and ethics
4.45 to 5.15pm
Open discussion
5.15 to 6pm
Coffee
6 to 6.45pm
David Sloan Wilson: Evolutionary social constructivism
6.45 to 7.15pm
Open discussion
7.30pm
Dinner
Saturday 5 July
9 to 9.45am
Marcus Giaquinto: Mental number lines
9.45 to 10.15am
Open discussion
10.15 to 10.45am
Coffee
10.45 to 11.30am
Edmund Rolls: Emotion and brain design
11.30am to 12pm
Open discussion
12 to 12.45pm
Coffee
12.45 to 1.30pm
Dan Sperber: Modularity and culture.
1.30 to 2pm
Open discussion
2pm
Buffet lunch (end of conference)
Sponsorship and funding
This conference is the first of a three-year project sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom.
Contact
Conference on culture and the innate mind
Department of Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
United Kingdom
Email: innateness_project@sheffield.ac.uk
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