Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of
Oregon
October 3 and 4, 1997
Please Note:
Friday, Oct. 3, sessions will be held in the Browsing Room, Knight
Library
Saturday, Oct. 4, sessions will be held in Willamette 110
Friday, October 3
1:00-2:00 Paul Churchland, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, (Title to be announced)
2:00-3:00 Robert McCauley, Philosophy, Emory University, "Explanatory Levels in Science and Conceptions of Cognition"
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Raymond Gibbs, Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Human Embodiment and Linguistic Meaning"
4:30-5:30 George Lakoff, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, "The Neural Theory of Language"
Saturday, October 4
8:30-9:00 Tim Adamson, Philosophy, University of Oregon, "The Idea of Embodiment"
9:00-9:30 Tim Rohrer, Philosophy, University of Oregon, "Why Metaphor and Embodiment Matter to Philosophy and Science"
9:30-10:30 Guilio Tononi, Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, "Analyzing Brain Complexity"
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Mark Turner, English, University of Maryland, "Descent of Meaning"
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Mark Johnson, Philosophy, University of Oregon, "Philosophy in the Flesh"
2:30-3:30 Gerald Edelman, Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, "Neural Darwinism"
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 William Bechtel and Jennifer Mundale, Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, "Multiple Realizability Revisited: Linking Cognitive and Neural States"
5:00-6:00 Owen Flanagan, Philosophy, Duke University, Gillian Einstein, Neurobiology, Duke University, "The Neuro-biology of Sexual Self-Consciousness: Mind and the Interplay of Body and Brain"
6:30-? Dinner and party at home of Mark Johnson