Centre for Philosophical Research

Monday, August 18th

2:30 pm               Bus leaves Warsaw airport

6 pm               Bus arrives at workshop hotel in Kazimierz Dolny

6:30 pm         Dinner at hotel

Tuesday, August 19th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30                 Key Speaker Cristine Legare – Ontogeny of cultural learning

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Yuichi Amitani – Species without definitions: Applying psychology to resolve the species problem

12:10 pm       John Collier – The strange case of female hormone replacement therapy and cognitive salience

12:50 pm       Corinne L. Bloch-Mullins – Concepts as tools of discovery

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Miles MacLeod and Nancy Nersessian – Cognitive constraints, complexity and model-building

3:10 pm         Matteo Colombo and Rogier De Langhe – Bayesian cognitive science, inference to the best explanatory framework, and the value of specialization

3:50 pm         Mark Addis, Fernand Gobet, Peter C R Lane and Peter Sozou – Computational scientific discovery and cognitive science theories

4:30 pm         End of sessions

Wednesday, August 20th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am          Key Speaker Paul Thagard – How scientific creativity results from three brain mechanisms

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Piotr Giza – Automated discovery systems and the inductivist controversy

12:10 pm       Witold Hensel – On Thagard’s argument for the approximate truth of deepened scientific theories

12:50 pm       Krystyna Bielecka – Ludwik Fleck’s account of science and the cognitive science of science

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Guided tour of Kazimierz Dolny

4:30 pm         End of tour

Thursday, August 21st

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am          Key Speaker Hugo Mercier – The argumentative theory of reasoning and scientific progress

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Renne Pesonen – Intuitive rationality and cognitive expertise

12:10 pm       Maarten Boudry and Stefaan Blancke – The epidemiology of pseudoscience

12:50 pm       Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Epistemic vigilance in scientific and religious cognition

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Lucas Afeltowicz and Radosław Sojek– Machines, duels and a beauty contest: Cognitive synergy of ‘Aristocratic’ and ‘Craftsmanship’ styles

3:10 pm         Adam Toon – Reason, relativism and situated cognition

3:50 pm         TBA

4:30 pm         End of sessions

6:30 pm         Workshop dinner at restaurant in town (cost not covered by fees)

Friday, August 22nd

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9 am                Round-table discussion of workshop theme

11:30 am       Bus leaves hotel

2:30 pm         Bus arrives at Warsaw airport

Monday, August 19th

3 pm               Bus leaves Warsaw airport

6 pm               Bus arrives at workshop hotel in Kazimierz Dolny

6:30 pm         Dinner at hotel

Tuesday, August 20th

8 am               Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9 am               Introduction by Marcin Miłkowski

9:30                Key Speaker Steve Butterfill – Not Just Wide but Shared: Joint Action Is a Core Form of Social Intelligence

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Leandro De Brasi – Knowledge-relevant responsibility and socially distributed cognition

12:10 pm       Fredrik Stjernberg – Social memory strategies

12:50 pm       Robert Clowes – Does The Cloud signify a new kind of wide mind?

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Key Speaker Joel Krueger – Extended emotions and the roots of social intelligence

4:00 pm         End of sessions

Wednesday, August 21st

8 am               Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am         Key Speaker Miriam Kyselo – Distinction and participation – An Enactive Approach to self

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Anita Pacholik-Żuromska & Daniel Żuromski – Chasing self

12:10 pm       Philipp Bartels & Patrizia Pecl – The social intelligence of socially distributed agents

12:50 pm       Self-organisation and emergence in distributed cognition

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Guided tour of Kazimierz Dolny

4:30 pm         End of tour

Thursday, August 22nd

8 am               Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am         Key Speaker Tad Zawidzki – Why do we mindread?

11:00 am       Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am       Adam Gies – Early human social cognition & intersubjectivity

12:10 pm       Zuzanna Rucinska – Towards non-representational pretence

12:50 pm       Aleksandra Przegalinska & Zofia Rosinska – Avatars and embodied experience

1:30 pm         Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm         Joanna Malinowska – Cultural neuroscience and cognition

3:10 pm         Leon Ciechanowski – Are there any unconscious emotions? An enactive approach

3:50 pm         Victor Fernandez – The embodied aspects of inner speech

4:30 pm         End of sessions

6:30 pm         Workshop dinner at restaurant in town (cost not covered by fees)

Friday, August 23rd

8 am               Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9 am               Round-table discussion of workshop theme

11:30 am       Bus leaves hotel

2:30 pm         Bus arrives at Warsaw airport

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – September 5-9th, 2011 

Invited key speakers

Paco Calvo  (Murcia)
Edouard Machery  (Pittsburgh)
Huw Price  (Sydney / Cambridge)

The notion of representation is essential for the project of naturalizing the mind and meaning. One of the key issues regarding representation concerns the possible varieties of representation: what are various ways of representing? Are mental representations propositional or image-based, connectionist, analog or digital? How can one answer these questions in the case of natural cognitive systems? What consequences does a pluralist attitude to representation have for claims that animals and even plants are capable of representing?

Call for Papers

300 word abstracts are invited no later than June 30. Accepted speakers will have 40 minutes for their presentations, including discussion time. Preference will be given to presentations directly connected to the work carried out by the key speakers. Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=knew11

Registration and accommodation

Applications will be accepted till June 30th, with late applications being accepted till July 31st. Early registration fee is 150 Euro (reduced rate – 75 Euro), while late registration fee is 200 Euro. Fees are payable upon acceptance of application. They cover the workshop sessions, conference materials, lunches, coffee breaks and the minibus to and from Warsaw. Accommodation is available at the hotel at which the workshop will take place and costs an additional 100 Euro (including breakfasts) for twin en suite rooms (limited single rooms available at higher price). Availability of accommodation cannot be guaranteed for late registrants.

KNEW’11 is being organised by Marcin Milkowski (PAN, CPR) and Konrad Talmont-Kaminski (UMCS, CPR) with financial assistance from the Philosophy and Sociology Faculty of Marie Curie-Sklodowska University as well as the Centre for Philosophical Research.

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland– September 11th-15th, 2010

Invited key speakers

Ken Binmore (UCL)
Erik Angner (Alabama at Birmingham)
Christophe Heintz (CEU)

Until recently, economics has stood apart from the other social sciences due to its aprioristic methodology and assumptions. This has made it problematic for the project of philosophical naturalism. The situation has undergone rapid change, however, as empirical work come to impact fundamental economic theory. Instead of stipulating that economy be a mathematical theory of rationality, theorists are focusing on explanation and prediction of economic behaviour. Central to this has been a move away from idealised models of economic agents and toward empirically-based accounts of economic cognition. The workshop will discuss these changes and their impact upon how economics can be seen to fit into a naturalist account of reality, including how recent work in economics is beginning to suggest connections between it and work within the biological sciences.

Call for Papers

300 word abstracts are invited no later than June 15^th (deadline extended). Accepted speakers will have 40 minutes for their presentations, including discussion time. Preference will be given to presentations directly connected to the work done by the key speakers. Submissions are to be made using EasyChair.

Registration and accommodation

Applications will be accepted till June 30^th, with late applications being accepted till July 31^st. Early registration fee is 150 Euro (reduced rate – 75Euro), while late registration fee is 200 Euro. Fees are payable upon acceptance of application. They cover the workshop sessions, conference materials, lunches, coffee breaks and the minibus to and from Warsaw. Accommodation is available at the hotel at which the workshop will take place and costs an additional 100 Euro (including breakfasts). Availability of accommodation cannot be guaranteed for late registrants.