Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, embodiment and adaptation

Sunday, 20 March 2011
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact cweber23@pitt.edu.

9:15	Linguistic Determinism and Embodied Cognition Larry Shapiro, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	A Motor Role in Social Cognition? From Mirror Neurons to Social Affordances Maria Brincker, New York University
11:30	Embodied Computation John Symons, University of Texas at El Paso
12:30	Lunch

Sunday Afternoon

2:00	Organism and Embodiment Charles Wolfe, University of Pittsburgh
2:45	Adaptation and Organisms in Retrospect: Complexifying the Modern Synthesis Philippe Huneman, IHPST
3:45	Coffee Break
4:00	Adaptation and the Affordance Landscape Denis Walsh, University of Toronto
5:00	Discussion

Organizers

Philippe Huneman, IHPST
Edouard Machery, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Charles Wolfe, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Sponsors

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
IHPST, Paris