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"