9:00

Breakfast

9:30

Welcome and Introduction: Bill Wimsatt (The University of Chicago and Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh)

Chair: Nancy Nersessian (Harvard, Psychology)

9:45

Keynote 1: Cecelia Heyes (University of Oxford, Theoretical Life Sciences)
"Cognitive Gadgets: Bringing Cognitive Science to Cultural Evolution"

10:45

Contributing Speaker 1: Regina Fabry (Ruhr University Bochum) and Markus Panstar (University of Helsinki)
“How Cognitive Tools Transform our Cognitive Capacities in Mathematical Problem Solving (and Beyond): Cumulative Cultural Evolution and Enculturation”

11:30

Coffee Break

Chair: Sandra D. Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh, HPS)

12:00

Keynote 2: James Evans (The University of Chicago, Sociology)

1:00

Lunch on your own

Chair: Nina Atanasova (Univ. of Toledo, Philosophy)

2:30

Contributing Speaker 2: Anton Killin (Australian National University) “Tools, Minds & Culture: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of Language”

3:15

Contributing Speaker 3: Maria Salazar (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Acheulean Handaxe: A Thing About Which We Have No Idea”

4:00

Coffee Break

Chair: Nedah Nemati (University of Pittsburgh, HPS)

4:30

Keynote 3: Jacob Foster (UCLA, Sociology) TBA

5:30

Adjourn

9:00

Breakfast

Chair: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh, HPS & Center for Philosophy of Science)

9:30

Keynote 4: Karin James (Indiana University, Psychology)
"How Handwriting Changes the Brain to Affect Cognitive Development"

10:30

Contributing Speaker 4: Frederick L. Coolidge (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and Thomas Wynn (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“The Second Cognitive Rubicon in Stone-Knapping: Late Acheulean Handaxes”

11:15

Coffee Break

Chair: Antonella Tramacere (Humboldt University & Center for Philosophy of Science)

11:45

Contributing Speaker 5: Ross Pain (Australian National University)
“Inferring Minds from Material Remains: What is the Relationship Between Technological Change and Cognitive Evolution?”

12:30

Contributing Speaker 6: Klint Janulus (University of Oxford School of Archaeology, Co-Director Center for Cognitive Archeology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs)
“Catching Time: How Stone Age Trapping Technologies Constructed Novel Human Relationships with Resources, Landscapes, and Cognition”

1:15

Lunch on your own

Chair: Jacob Neal (University of Pittsburgh, HPS)

2:30

Contributing Speaker 7: Armin Schulz (University of Kansas) “Ratchetting Cognition: Technology, Cultural Learning, and Representational Decision-Making in Human Evolution”

3:15

Contributing Speaker 8: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) “Tools, Skills, and the Organization of the Mind”

4:00

Coffee Break

Chair: William Wimsatt (University of Chicago & Center for Philosophy of Science)

4:30

Keynote 5: Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
"Bashing Rocks from the Olduvai Gorge to the Nihewan Basin"

5:30

Adjourn