Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Neuroethics

Next week, I'll be heading out to Arlington, Texas where I'll be keynote speaker at a workshop organized by Ken Williford. The talk I'll be giving is based on a project of mine concerning conceptual content, externalism, and time. My talk is "The Slow-switching Slowdown Showdown" and I'll be blogging some more about it the rest of the week or so.

Here's the schedule for workshop:

The 2010 UTA Summer Seminar in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroethics

July 13-15, UTA Campus, 303 CPB

The Department of Philosophy and Humanities

The College of Liberal Arts

The Office of the Vice President for Research

Schedule

DAY ONE—Tuesday, July 13

9:30—“Continental” Breakfast in 303 CPB

9:45 Beth S. Wright, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Opening remarks

10:00 Dan Levine (UTA, Psychology)

It’s Not Just “Survival and Reproduction, Stupid”

11:15—Break

11:30 Daniel C. Krawczyk (UTD, Center for Brain Health, UTSW, Psychiatry)

What can Neuroscience tell us about Reasoning?

1:15-3:00—Lunch at Potager

315 S Mesquite St. Arlington, TX (817) 861-2292

http://www.potagercafe.com/

3:30 Heekyeong Park (UTA, Psychology)

Neural Correlates of Encoding Within- and Across-Domain Inter-Item Associations

4:45—Break

5:00 Erik Nylen (University of Iowa, Biomedical Engineering, NYU, Center for Neural Science)

How much can a Diseased Eye See?

6:00—Break

6:15 Fabrice Jotterand (UTSW, Departments of Clinical Sciences and Psychiatry/Philosophy and Bioethics)

Please Engineer My Brain…I Was Born a Criminal!:  Neuroimaging Technologies, Psychopathy and Moral Neuro-enhancement

8:00—Dinner at The Blue Danube

2230-A W Park Row Dr, Pantego, TX (817) 861-5900

http://archive.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=4137

DAY TWO—Wednesday, July 14

9:30—“Continental” Breakfast in 303 CPB

10:00 Nathanial Blower (University of Iowa, Philosophy)

Dennett vs. Hacker: Mind, Metaphor and the Mereological Fallacy

11:15—Break

11:30 Jeremy Shipley (University of Iowa, Philosophy)

Varying Variance (Invariantly)

1:15-3:00—Lunch at Beirut Rock Café

1201 S Cooper St Arlington, TX (817) 860-5499

http://www.yelp.com/biz/beirut-rock-cafe-arlington

3:30 Peter LeGrant (Kirkwood College, Philosophy) and Kenneth Williford (UTA, Philosophy)

Spinoza and Functionalism

4:45—Break

5:00 Harry P. Reeder (UTA, Philosophy)

The Role of Language in Phenomenological Description

6:00—Break

6:15 Adam Briggle (UNT, Philosophy)

What Bioethics can Teach Neuroethics

8:00—Dinner at The Istanbul Grill

6204 S.Cooper St. Arlington, TX (817) 557-3377

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-TX/ISTANBUL-GRILL-TURKISH-MEDITERRANEAN-CUISINE/131433256039

DAY 3—Thursday, July 15

9:30—“Continental” Breakfast in 303 CPB

10:00 Matthew J. Brown (UTD, Philosophy, Center for Values in Science, Technology, and Medicine)

Love Slaves and Wonder Women: Values and Popular Culture in the Psychology of W.M. Marston

11:15—Break

11:30 Justin Fisher (SMU, Philosophy)

The Challenge of Syntactic Typing

1:15-3:00—Lunch at The University Club

Lower level of Davis Hall, UTA Campus (817) 272-5999 http://www.uta.edu/provost/newfaculty/docs/NFO%2009%20-%20Online-University%20Club.pdf

3:30 Charles Nussbaum (UTA, Philosophy)

 Can Natural Necessity Be Naturalized?

4:45—Break

5:00 Timothy Odegard (UTA, Psychology)

Diachronic Disunity:  The Severing of the Self across Time

6:00—Break

6:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Pete Mandik (William Paterson University of New Jersey, Philosophy)

The Slow-switching Slowdown Showdown