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Abstracts of the ESPP Congress 2003

COMPREHENSION
CONCEPTUAL CONTENT
CONNECTIONISM & PHYSICALISM

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE & RATIONALITY
EMOTIONAL REASON

INTENTIONAL ACTION
INVITED SPEAKERS

JOINT ATTENTION

LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE

MAKING SIMULATION TESTABLE
MEMORY &TIME
MINIMALISM IN LINGUISTIC THEORIE

NATIVISM & UNDERSTANDING
NATURE OF CONCEPTS

PERCEPTION & ACTION
PERCEPTION, ATTENTION & REFERENCE
PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS & INTROSPECTION
PHYSICALISM & REALISATION
POSSIBILITY & UNDERSTANDING
PRAGMATICS & UNDERSTANDING
PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL CAUSATION

REFERENCE & DEMONSTRATION
REASONING, INTERFERENCE & CONDITIONALS

SELF-REPORT & INTROSPECTION

THEORY OF MIND
THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
TRUTH AND MEANING


COMPREHENSION
Mihaela Popa "What bets do we need for making sense out of nonsense?"
Fernando Martinez Manrique & Agustìn Vicente "Semantic Underdetermination and the Cognitive Uses of Language"
Piotr Cap "The Mental Construction of Determination of Discourse Analysis"
Gustav Kuhn & Zoltan Dienes "The form of knowledge acquired in implicit learning of musical structures"

CONCEPTUAL CONTENT
William Fish "Perception & Our Cognitive Powers"
Wayne Christensen "Integration, abstraction and concept learning"
Rachel Seabrook & Zoltan Dienesa "Does incubation in Problem Solving Involve Unconscious Processing?"
Friederike Moltmann "Generic One and the First-Person Perspective"

CONNECTIONISM & PHYSICALISM
Nicholas Shea "Content in Connectionist Systems"
Dirk Van Rooy "A connectionist approach to social cognition"
David DeMoss "Connectionist Representation"
Maurice Schouten "In defense of a substantive neuron doctrine"

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE & RATIONALITY
Ronald de Sousa "Emotional Consistency"
Sandy Berkovski "Metaphor and Emotion"
Aaron Ben Ze’ev "The Paradoxical Nature of Online Affairs"
Michael Lacewing "Emotional Awareness and Self-Knowledge"

EMOTIONAL REASON
Thomas Goschke, Dresden
Sabine Döring "Emotions Within Reason Consequentialism Reconsidered"
Antoine Bechara, Dortmund
Christoph Fehige "Desires as Affects"

INTENTIONAL ACTION
Joshua Knobe "Intentional Action in Folk Psychology"
Anne Ruth Mackor "The embodied, embedded and affective nature of social cognition: Combining Simulation Theory and Autonomous Agent Theory"
Massimo Tria "Representations and sensormotor loops in intelligent agents2
Filip Buekens "Intentions and Motor Control"
Wafa Ben Salha "Study of the attentionnal functions in child with syndrome of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)"
Constantinos Hadjichristidis"The probability of the ordinary indicative conditional"
Emmanuel Photos


INVITED SPEAKERS
Axel Cleeremans "The search for the computational correlates of consciousness"
Deirdre Wilson "Ad hoc concepts, word meaning and communication"
Robert Stalnaker "Language games: Strategic reasoning in the interpretation of speech"
Richard Wollheim "Cure, Self Knowledge and Freudian Unconscious"

JOINT ATTENTION
Johannes Roessler "Joint attention and knowledge of other minds"
Franco Fabia "Infant pointing: looking, seeing and talking about it"
Vasudevi Reddy "On being the object of attention"
Josep Call "Chimpanzees know what others can and cannot see"

LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE
Matt Twymann & Zoltan Dienes "Measurement of Unconscious Knowledge"
Leonora Wilkinson & David Shanks "Is Sequence Learning Accessible to Awareness? Recognition and Intentional Control of Sequence Knowledge"
Barry Hall "Change-blindness is not blindness to change"
Andrea Stocco & Danilo Fum "A different perspective for learning in dynamic control tasks"
Manuel Padilla Cruz
Iza Saillot "A janetian approach to palaeo-psychology
Bartolomiej Swiatczak "Mental Representation: Naturalistic Consensus"
Bert Timmermans "Processing summary information through activation of implicit exemplars"

MAKING SIMULATION TESTABLE
Anton Kühberger "Theory-Theory and Simulation Theory: the value of some counterintuitive findings"
Josef Perner "Simulating endowment"
Joelle Proust "Simulation from a control theory viewpoint"
Gunter Knoblich "Simulation in action prediction"

MEMORY &TIME
Christoph Hoerl "The role of joint reminiscing in the development of episodic memory"
Philip Percival "The Content of Episodic Memory"
Dorothea Debus "Recollective Memory and Perspective"
Theresa McCormack "Children’s Reasoning about the Causal Significance of Temporal Order Information"

MINIMALISM IN LINGUISTIC THEORIE
David Adger ("Principles and Parameters approach")
Wolfram Hinzen "Internalism unleashed"
Tanya Reinhart, Jerusalem
Gillian Ramchad, Oxford

NATIVISM & UNDERSTANDING
Tamara Ojeda Arceo "Theory-Theory and Nativism"
Simon Fitzpatrick "Nativism, Empiricism and Ockham’s razor"
Manuel Padilla Cruz "Metaphor Presentation and Phatic Utterances"
Eleni Ziori & Zoltan Dienes "The effect of prior knowledge on implicit and explicit concept learning"

NATURE OF CONCEPTS
Bence Nanay "Compositionality without Conceptuality? Evans’ Generality Constraint Reconsidered"
Richard Gray "On the concept of a Sense"
Paula Rubio Fernández "Priming and suppression in metaphor interpretation the role of core features in constructing ad hoc concepts"
Giancarlo Buoiano, Paolo Bongioanni, Mario Betti, Marzi Magoni & Bruno Rossi "TCL, or Who did What to Whom: a theta-roles and syntax processing test"

PERCEPTION & ACTION
Stephen Butterfill "Unperceived Objects"
Hilde Haider, Peter Frensch & Uwe Neugebauer "Verbal report of Incidentally experienced environmental regularity: The route from implicit to verbal expression of what has been learned"
Daniel Schmicking "The acousmatic illusion – Do you really hear her voice on the phone?"
Peter Mcleod, Nick Reed & Z. Dienes "Implicit knowledge and motor skill: what people do not know about how they catch a ball"

PERCEPTION, ATTENTION & REFERENCE
Helene Poissant "Memory, planification and attention in children with attention deficit and hyperactivity desorder"
Steven Davis “This” and “That”
Ingar Brinck "The objects of attention"
Barbara Giolito "The referential competence as a product of sensory perception"

PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS & INTROSPECTION
Maja Spener "Is the phenomenal character of experience obvious to one in introspection?"
Mayumi Hosono "Doubt About the Traditional Methodology - Introspection"
Athanasios Raftopoulos & Vincent Muller "The phenomenal content of experience"
Janet Levin "Recognitional concepts of experience and knowing what it’s like"

PHYSICALISM & REALISATION
Thomas Cantford, Claire Hewson & Don Fawkes "Are We Reductionists?"
Michael Moritz "Brain Parts, Computers and Searle’s Chinese room"
Maurice Schouten, Dingmar Van Eck, Huib de Jong "Intertheoretic relations: the case of vision research"
Nicola Simonetti “Levels” and “Orders”: the Multilayered Metaphysical model of J. Kim

POSSIBILITY & UNDERSTANDING
James Hampton, Diane Lewis & Alan Green "Imagining the impossible"
Sarah Beck, Elisabeth Robinson & Ian Apperly "Children’s thinking about possibilities"
Fabian Dorsch "Imaginings as imaginative projects"
Tim Bayne & Elisabeth Pacherie "Delusions: Beliefs or Imaginings"

PRAGMATICS & UNDERSTANDING
Robyn Carston "Conversational Implicatures and Pragmatic Mechanisms"
Nicholas Allott "Can Game Theory do Pragmatics?"
Guy Longworth & Barry Smith "Autism and Unsophisticated Communication"
Emma Borg "Formal Semantics and Intentional States: the role of mind-reading in understanding language"

PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL CAUSATION
Dominic Murphy "What Psychiatry Needs From Psychology"
Sven Walter "Can the Determinable / Determinate Distinction Save the Causal Efficacy of the Mental?"

REFERENCE & DEMONSTRATION
Panu Raatikainen "Against Causal Descriptivism"
George Powell "Definite descriptions and complex demonstratives"
Roberto Casati "What numerals are"
Mark Jary "Spanish mood and assertion"

REASONING, INTERFERENCE & CONDITIONALS
Nilufa Ali, Nick Charter & Mike Oaksford "Causal Interpretations Affect Conditional Reasoning"
Jonathan Knowles "Reasoning Competence"
David Owens "Does belief Aim at Truth?"

SELF-REPORT & INTROSPECTION
Alvin Goldman "An Introspectivist Model of First-Person Mindreading"
Jonathan Schooler "Illusions of awareness resulting from dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness"
Anthony Jack, Washington

THEORY OF MIND
Tillmann Vierkant “Owning Intentions”
Zohar Kohavi "Anthropocentrism in the Discourse of the Animal issue"
Kristin Andrews "Folk Psychology is not Fundamentally a Predictive Device"
Louise Röska-Hardy "Uniformity, Asymmetry and the Nature of Mental Concepts"

THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Michael Antony "Consciousness and Vagueness"
Catherine Deeprose & Jackie Andrade "Learning during anaesthesia: implications for theories of learning and consciousness"
Tjeerd Van de Laar "The concept of projection in theories of phenomenal consciousness"
Kevin Thomas Rea "Consciousness and Intentionality in the Logical Investigations"

TRUTH AND MEANING
Josep Maciá "Is Horwich’s deflationary account of meaning an alternative to truth-theoretic semantics?"
Steven Gross "Context- Sensitive Truth-Theoretic Accounts of Semantic Competence"
John Collins "Minimalism, Semantics and Pragmatic Performance Modules"
Pawel Mirecki "Two selected contemporary approaches to misunderstandings. A critical evaluation"