Other Minds: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon

September 27-28, 2003
Gerlinger Lounge

Conference Program

See also Abstracts
(updated 9-17-03, 100% complete)

Each talk = 20 min, 10 min discussion. 3-4 talks per symposium

Friday, Sept 26: Arrival and Hospitality Suite (New Oregon Hotel) from 8pm–10pm.

Saturday, Sept 27

Opening 8:45-9:00

Symposium I: 9:00-11:00 Language and Other Minds

  1. Janet Astington (Psychology, OISE, Toronto)
    Co-Construction of Theory of Mind: The Role of Language
  2. Brian MacWhinney (Psychology, Carnegie Mellon)
    Language and Perspective Switching
  3. Jim Uleman (Psychology, New York University)
    On the Inherent Polysemy of Traits and Other Mental Concepts
  4. Susan Fussell & Robert Kraut (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University)
    Actions As Evidence About State of Mind In Conversation
  5. [not present] Marjorie Barker and T. Givon (Linguistics, University of Oregon)
    The Representation of Conversation in Episodic Memory: Information vs. Interaction

BREAK 11:00-11:30

Symposium II: 11:30-1:00 Explaining Behavior, Reading Minds

  1. Stephen Read (Psychology, University of Southern California)
    Explanatory Coherence and Goal-Based Knowledge Structures in Understanding Other Minds
  2. Bertram Malle (Psychology, University of Oregon)
    What Behavior Explanations Reveal About the Ordinary Solution to the Other-Minds Problem
  3. Alison Gopnik (Psychology, UC Berkeley)
    Causal Learning and Theory of Mind

LUNCH on site 1:00-2:00

Symposium III: 2:00-3:30 Reading Behavior, Reading Minds

  1. Robert Gordon (Philosphy & Cognitive Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis)
    Why We Perceive Other Human Beings as Mind-Endowed
  2. Glenn Reeder (Psychology, Illinois State University)
    Perceived Motives and Dispositional Inference
  3. Daniel Povinelli (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
    Thinking About Behavior

BREAK 3:30-4:00

Symposium IV: 4:00-6:00 Limits of Mindreading

  1. Bill Ickes (Psychology, University Texas at Arlington) & Jeff Simpson (Psychology, Texas A & M University)
    When Accuracy Hurts, and When It Helps: A Test of the Empathic Accuracy Model In Marital Interactions
  2. Boaz Keysar (Psychology, University of Chicago) and Dale Barr (Psychology, University of California, Riverside)
    What do Adults do With Their Theory of Mind?
  3. Michael Schober (Psychology, New School for Social Research, NY)
    Conceptual Alignment in Conversation
  4. Robyn Langdon (Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia)
    Limits of Mindreading in Schizophrenia

DINNER (Catered event) 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept 28

Symposium V: 9:00-10:30 Own and Other Minds I

  1. Radu Bogdan (Philosophy, Tulane University)
    The Novelty of Self Attributions
  2. Sara Hodges (Psychology, University of Oregon)
    Is How Much You Understand Me in Your Head or Mine?
  3. George Loewenstein (Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon) & Leaf Van Boven (Psychology, University Colorado, Boulder)
    Trading Places: Empathy Gaps in Affective Perspective Taking

BREAK 10:30-11:00

Symposium VI: 11:00-1:00 Own and Other Minds II

  1. Jean Decety (Social Neuroscience, University Washington)
    Perspective Taking as the Royal Avenue to Empathy
  2. Alvin Goldman (Philosophy, Rutgers University)
    Emotion Mindreading, Simulation, and Modularity
  3. Josef Perner & Anton Kühberger (Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria)
    Making Simulation Theory Testable: The Case of Endowment
  4. Mark Davis (Psychology, Eckerd College)
    Four Core Components of Perspective Taking and Three Observations About Them

LUNCH on site 1:00-2:00

Symposium VII: 2:00-4:00 Cognitive processes

  1. Ralph Adolphs (Social Neuroscience, University of Iowa)
    A Neural System for Reconstructing Social Knowledge through Simulation
  2. Diego Fernandez-Duque (Cognitive Neurology, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto) & Jodie Baird (OISE, University of Toronto)
    What Should a Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindreading Look Like?
  3. Lou Moses (Psychology, University of Oregon)
    Clarifying the Relation between Executive Function and Theory of Mind: An Executive Emergence Account
  4. Daniel Ames (Business School, Columbia University)
    Mind-Reading in Social Judgment: Strategies and Consequences

BREAK 4:00-4:30

Symposium VIII: 4:30-6:00 Evolutionary processes

  1. John Orbell (Political Science, University of Oregon)
    "Machiavellian" Intelligence as a Basis for the Evolution of Cooperative Dispositions
  2. Stephanie Preston (Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine)
    The Primacy of Emotion in Intersubjectivity
  3. Discussant: Charles Crawford (Psychology, Simon Fraser University)
    Commentary

DESSERT party 9:30-midnight