Summer 2009 Cognitive Science Events in Princeton

Monday, June 15

First Philosophy Summer Workshop on Davidson, 201 Marx Hall.

10:00-11:00 Adam Crager, "Conceptual Schemes"
11:15-12:15 Richard Dub, "Incommensurability"
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 Aysegul Cakai, "Triangulation"
2:30-3:30 Ralph Jenkins, and Jenna Schaal-OConnor, "Animal Thought"
3:45-5:00 Ernie Lepore, "Soames on Davidson"

Tuesday, June 16

4 PM. Computer Engineering Seminar. "Design Intent Verification: A Formal Basis for Systematic Engineering Design." Pallab Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. B205 EQuad.

Wednesday, June 17

8 PM. Psychology Lecture. "The Art of Memory." Ed Cooke, "Grandmaster of Memory." Betts auditorium, Architecture Building.

Thursday, July 23

11 AM. Rutgers Cognitive Science Talk. "A Window of Cognition: Eyetracking the Reasoning Process in Spatial Beauty Contest Games." Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Economics, National Taiwan University. A139, RuCCS Playroom, Psychology, 152 Frelinghuysen Rd, Busch Campus, Rutgers.

Wednesday July 29

9 AM. Philosophy Final Public Oral. "Autonymy and the Organization of Desires." Derek C.\ Baker, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. 201 Marx Hall.

Noon. ML-Stat-Talk. "Network-based Models for Mental State Prediction: from Functional Networks to Sparse MRFs." Irina Rish, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research Center. 0-S-6 Green.

Monday, August 3

Second Philosophy Summer Workshop on Quine and Davidson, 201 Marx Hall.

10:00-11:00 "Animal Thought," Ralph Jenkins, and Jenna Schaal-OConnor, Rutgers.
11:15-12:15 "Davidson on First Person Authority," Jack Woods, Princeton.
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:150-2:15 "Davidsonian Semantics and Russell's Paradox," Thomas Donaldson, Rutgers
2:30-3:30 "Literary Interpretation," Anthony Cross, Princeton.
3:35-5:00"Naturalism," Mario DeCaro, Philosophy, Roma Tre University and Tufts.