Arts & Humanities Research Council - Innateness

Year three conference:
Reflections on innateness

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.

Halifax Hall Conference Centre

Tentative list of speakers

Titles and abstracts

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

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

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

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

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 (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

Contact us to apply for a bursary, details below.

Sponsorship and funding

This conference is the third of a three-year project sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom.

More about funding

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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