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Year three conference:
The third annual AHRB conference for the Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project was held 30 June to 3 July 2004 at Halifax Hall Conference Centre, Sheffield.
This interdisciplinary conference will address a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research.
What is nativism? What is at stake in debates between nativists and empiricists?
How do different research methodologies contribute to nativist research?
Where next for research in the nativist tradition?
Mark Baker, Linguistics, Rutgers
Clark Barrett, Anthropology, UCLA
Tom Bouchard, Psychology, Minnesota
Peter Carruthers, Philosophy, Maryland
Dan Fessler, Anthropology, UCLA
Paul Griffiths, HPS, Pittsburgh
Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis, Philosophy, Sheffield and Rice
Matteo Mameli, Philosophy, Cambridge
Georges Rey, Philosophy, Maryland
Peter Richerson, Animal Behaviour, UC-Davis
Richard Samuels, Philosophy, King's College London
Gabriel Segal, Philosophy, King's College London
Tom Simpson, Philosophy, Sheffield
Chandra Sripada, Philosophy, Rutgers
Steve Stich and Dan Kelly, Philosophy, Rutgers
Karin Stromswold, RuCCS, Rutgers
Denis Walsh, Philosophy
Fei Xu, Psychology, British Columbia
Schedule
Schedule
Wednesday 30 June 2004
Wednesday 30 June 2004
11am to 12.30pm
Arrival, registration, coffee
12.30 to 1.15pm
Fei Xu: TBA
1.15 to 1.45pm
Open discussion
1.45 to 2.15pm
Coffee
2.15 to 3pm
Richard Samuels: Is innateness a confused notion?
3 to 3.30pm
Open discussion
3.30 to 4.15pm
Coffee
4.15 to 5pm
Paul Griffiths: The concept of innateness: Taking the 'concept' part seriously
5 to 5.30pm
Open discussion
5 to 6.15pm
Coffee
6.15 to 7pm
Denis Walsh: Innateness as a developmental phenomenon
7 to 7.30pm
Open discussion
7.30pm
Buffet dinner
Thursday 1 July 2004
Thursday 1 July 2004
8 to 9.30am
Breakfast
9.30 to 10.15am
Dan Fessler: Steps toward the evolutionary psychology of a culture-dependent species
10.15 to 10.45am
Open discussion
10.45 to 11.15am
Coffee
11.15am to 12pm
Tom Simpson: Food preferences and the development of core disgust elicitors
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
12.30 to 1.45pm
Buffet lunch
1.45 to 2.30pm
Gabriel Segal: Poverty of stimulus arguments in language and folk psychology
2.30 to 3pm
Open discussion
3 to 3.45pm
Coffee
3.45 to 4.30pm
Clark Barrett: Evolved intuitive ontologies and the living vs. dead distinction
4.30 to 5pm
Open discussion
5 to 5.30pm
Coffee
5.45 to 6.30pm
Peter Richerson: TBA
6.30 to 7pm
Open discussion
7 to 8pm
Reception
8pm
Dinner
Friday 2 July 2004
Friday 2 July 2004
8 to 9.30am
Breakfast
9.30 to 10.15am
Peter Carruthers: Simple heuristics meet massive modularity
10.15 to 10.45am
Open discussion
10.45 to 11.15am
Coffee
11.15am to 12pm
Matteo Mameli: Genetic and nongenetic inheritance
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
12.30 to 2pm
Buffet lunch
2 to 2.45pm
Tom Bouchard: Genes and human psychological traits
2.45 to 3.15pm
Open discussion
3.15 to 4pm
Coffee
4 to 4.45pm
Karin Stromswold: TBA
4.45 to 5.15pm
Open discussion
5.15 to 6pm
Coffee
6 to 6.45pm
Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis: Where do artefact concepts come from?
6.45 to 7.15pm
Open discussion
7.30pm
Dinner
Saturday 3 July 2004
Saturday 3 July 2004
8 to 9am
Breakfast
9 to 9.45am
Chandra Sripada: Adaptationist and culturist explanations of human behaviour
9.45 to 10.15am
Open discussion
10.15 to 10.45am
Coffee
10.45 to 11.30am
Mark Baker: The creative aspect of language use and non-biological notions of innateness
11.30am to 12pm
Open discussion
12 to 1pm
Lunch
1 to 1: 45pm
Georges Rey: TBA
1: 45 to 2.15pm
Open discussion
2.15 to 2.45pm
Coffee
2.45 to 3.30pm
Daniel Kelly and Stephen Stich: Two theories about the cognitive architecture underlying morality
3.30 to 4pm
Open discussion
Analysis bursaries
Analysis bursaries
Analysis (post)graduate student bursaries
Analysis (post)graduate student bursaries
The Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project announces the availablity of seven (post)graduate student bursaries available to attend the AHRB conference on Reflections on innateness, 30 June to 3 July 2004. The bursaries are made available through a generous conference grant from the Analysis Committee.
Bursaries are
available to (post)graduate students only
£75 each
available on a first come, first served basis.
Contact us to apply for a bursary, details below.
Sponsorship and funding
Sponsorship and funding
This conference is the third of a three-year project sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom.
Contact
Contact
Conference on reflections on innateness
Department of Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
United Kingdom
Email: innateness_project@sheffield.ac.uk
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