The Origins and Nature of Contentful Minds
Continuity, Transformation, Integration?
Monday 28th November 2016
Northfield's Campus, University of Wollongong
Lecture Theatre 21.G08, Early Start, Building 21
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We are pleased to announce a workshop on issues of continuity, transformation
and integration that will take place at the University of Wollongong on Monday
November 28th.
It is widely assumed that at least some cognitive beings are capable of
thinking contentful thoughts – thoughts that refer to things beyond themselves
and which can be true or false. Do contentful thoughts exist? If so, how can we
account for their natural origins? Does explaining how they arose require
special explanatory resources? Or are the seemingly distinctive properties of
contentful best explained as more elaborate or complex versions of signaling
systems of non-human animals? Does distinguishing between basic and non-basic
forms of cognition entail any kind of problematic discontinuity thesis?
Assuming such a distinction exists, to what extent does the emergence of
contentful thought presuppose a radical transformation of more basic cognitive
abilities? How might we understand such a transformation and how might it be
explained? To what extent can basic and non-basic cognitive abilities be
integrated, and how might we understand and explain such integration?
Program
Monday 28th November 2016
10.00-11.00 TBA.
Karola Stotz, Macquarie University.
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.15 “Continuity Scepticism in Doubt”
Daniel D. Hutto, University of Wollongong.
12.30-13.30 “Shared Agency and the Cooperative Evolutionary Hypothesis”
Glenda Satne, University of Wollongong, UAH
13.30-15 Lunch
15-16 “Does the evolved apprentice model remain in the zone of latent
solutions?”
Tom Froese, National Autonomous University, Mexico.
16-16.15 Coffee Break
16.15-17.15 “The Origin of Content: Continuity and Transformation”
Richard Menary, Macquarie University.
17.15-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 “From Implicit to explicit processing in phylogeny and ontogeny”.
Philip Gerrans, University of Adelaide.
19.30 Conference Dinner
All are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee, but places may be
limited due to restrictions on space. Please RSVP gsa...@uow.edu.au
<mailto:gsa...@uow.edu.au> to secure a place by inserting the subject line
‘Registration for CTI Workshop, 28 Nov 2016’.
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