Sisters and Brothers,
Here are links to the abstracts for the Philosophy of Cognitive Science/Psychology stream at this years AAP. Timetable is currently being done 🙂. Also please note that there are some relevant talks in the Neuroethics Stream (which includes moral cognition) and some other good looking philosophy of science talks elsewhere in the conference (e.g. the Peter Menzies Stream).
Peter Godfrey-Smith “Animal Evolution and the Origins of Consciousness”
Dan Hutto “Overly Enactive Imagination? Radically Re-Imagining Imagining”
Richard Menary “What? Now. Predictive Coding and 4E Cognition”
Peter Slezak “Intuition in Study of Language: Syntax & Semantics”
John Sutton (Celia Harris and Amanda Barnier) “Otto in the Wild: dementia and distributed cognition”
Massimiliano Cappuccio “The biggest challenge: contentless cognition vs Mind Uploading”
Glenn Carruthers “Irvine’s elimination of consciousness”
Sidney Diamante “Armed with information: The octopus as an embodied cognitive system”
Henry Dobson “Why Integrated Information Theory fails to solve the hard problem of consciousness.”
Caitrin Donovan “Thought insertion and the minimal self”
Renee England “The natural kind status of emotion – a Spinozist approach”
Robert Farquharson “Self-Organisation & Connectionism: An Added Layer of Biological Realism”
Alexander James Gillett “Model-based reasoning in science and the Manipulation Mill”
Chris Letheby “The Epistemic Innocence of Psychedelic States”
Christopher McCarroll “Constructing and reconstructing observer perspectives in personal memory”
Kourken Michaelin “Collaborative memory knowledge: A distributed reliabilist perspective”
Hoda Mostafavi “The Origins of a Pluralistic Folk Psychology”
Matthew Nestor “A critique of etiological theories of target fixation”
Sarah Pini (Doris McIlwain and John Sutton) “Flowing into the Jam: a Phenomenology of Shared Place”
Thomas Robert “Darwin and the language instinct”
Laura Ruggles “Biological information processing in plants: towards a theoretical framework”
Lachlan Douglas Walmsley “Reformulating the Scope Objection”
John Zerilli “An evaluation of the recent multiple realization controversy”
cheers
Glenn