May 2009 Cognitive Science Events in Princeton

Monday May 4

10:30 AM - 3 PM. Rutgers 3rd Annual Perceptual Science Forum. CoRE ATrium and Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers.

1 PM - 4 PM. Quine-Davidson History of Philosophy Seminar. "Naturalized Epistemology," guest presentation by Thomas Kelly. 201 Marx.

4 PM. Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts lecture. "Metaphors in Our Lives: 'I Love You for Yourself.'" Alexander Nehamas. 10 East Pyne.

4:30 p.m. Medieval studies lecture. "Naming, Knowing and the Object of Language in a 12th-Century Grammar Curriculum." Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania. 209 Scheide Caldwell House.

Wednesday May 6

Noon. Information technology lecture. "Computer Modeling of the Mind and Brain." Matthew Botvinick. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.

4:30 PM. Paper Tigers Philosophy Talk. "Representing Normative Uncertainty." Adam Elga. Tower Room, 1879 Hall.

Thursday May 7

4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Biomechanical and Behavioral studies of the Rat Vibrissal System." Mitra Hartmann, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. Northwestern University. 0-S-6 Green.

Monday May 11

12:15 PM. Biophysics Seminar. Massimo Vergassola, Pasteur Institute, Paris. "Biological Strategies of Motility." Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall.

12:30 PM. Machine Learning Yahoo! Speaker Series. "On Herding Dynamical Weights and Fractal Attractors." Max Welling, UCI. 302 Computer Science

4:30 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "Mere Possibilities: Modal Metaphysics and Modal Semantics." First of three. Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 101 McCormick.

Tuesday May 12

4:30 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "Mere Possibilities: Modal Metaphysics and Modal Semantics." Second of three. Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 101 McCormick.

Wednesday May 13

Rutgers Philosophy Workshop on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Schedule: http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/hdemarest/StatMech.html.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision-Making Seminar. "How faces are like cars and words: Investigating human object recognition through a model-based integration of electrophysiology, fMRI, and behavior." Maximilian Riesenhuber. 1-S-5 Green.

Thursday May 14

Rutgers Philosophy Workshop on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Schedule: http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/hdemarest/StatMech.html.

12:30 PM. Machine Learning Yahoo! Speaker. "Structured Prediction Problems in Natural Language Processing." Michael Collins, MIT. 302 Computer Science.

4:30 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "Mere Possibilities: Modal Metaphysics and Modal Semantics." Third of three. Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 101 McCormick.

Friday May 15

Noon. Psychology lecture. "Why We See What We Do." Dale Purves, Duke University. 0S6 Green.

Friday-Saturday May 15-16

Conference in History of Mathematics and Engineering and Historiography and Pedagogy of Science. "The Historical Career of Michael Sean Mahoney." Information.

Saturday-Sunday May 16-17

Rutgers-Lund Philosophy Graduate Conference. Schedule.

Tuesday May 19

1:30 PM. Rutgers Psychology Talk. "The Psychology of Evil: The Lucifer Effect in Action." Philip G. Zimbardo, Stanford University. 103 Allison Road Classroom Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers.

4:30 PM. Integrated Science Shorts. Gunnar Kleemann and Deniz Erezyilmaz, Murphy Group and Stern Group. "Exploring hidden variation in lifespan using selected recombinant inbred lines" (Kleemann) and "An evolved difference in decision making between two sister species of Drosophila (Erezyilmaz)." 101 Carl Icahn Laboratory)

Wednesday May 20

2 PM. Philosophy Student Dissertation Talk. "The Open Instruction Theory of Attitude Reports." Philipp Koralus. 201 Marx.

Thursday May 21

4:30 PM. Philosophy Book Symposium. John Burgess, Mathematics, Models, And Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays. Eli Hirsh, Brandeis University, and Richard Heck, Brown University. 101 McCormick.

Friday May 22

Philosophical Logic Conference, 101 McCormick.

Saturday May 23

Philosophical Logic Conference. 101 McCormick.