About the Cognitive Science Concentration:

(Slight revisions December 2005)

The Concentration in Cognitive Science is run in cooperation with the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies of the CUNY Graduate School.

An official description of the Concentration can be found in the GSUC Bulletin.

To pursue studies in the Concentration, one must be a degree candidate in one of the six constituent Ph.D. Programs.
Application for admission must be made to the affiliated Ph.D. Program of choice, though it is typically useful also to consult in advance with the Coordinator of Cognitive Science.
To receive application forms, please send e-mail to admissions@gc.cuny.edu, or to Mr. Les Gribben, Director of Admissions, at: lgribben@gc.cuny.edu, or call at (212) 817-7470.

To Download an Application click here.

Also, check the information about the application process.

There is, in addition, a highly useful Web Page for the Office of the Registrar.

And there are general information pages both for prospective students and for current students.

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    • Course Requirements: Students working in Cognitive Science normally take, in addition to various courses in their home Ph.D. Program, both a dedicated Cognitive Science Seminar--when that is given--and at least two other courses in two distinct participating programs other than their home program.

    Those courses will nornally be chosen from those cross-listed under the Concentration in Cognitive Science.

    When a dedicated Cognitive Science Seminar is not available, a student may substitute a suitable cross-listed course from a discipline of choice.

    Those other courses should be chosen in consultation with the Coordinator.

    Under special circumstances, active participation in the weekly Cognitive Science Symposium, including making several presentations, may substitute for at least part of this course requirement.

    After course work is complete: Depending on whether the dissertation is cast in an interdisciplinary way, it may be desirable to have interdisciplinary representation on the dissertation committee.

    Moreover, specially constructed qualifying examinations may sometimes be arranged.

    Upon receipt of the Ph.D., the Coordinator will write a Letter of Achievement concerning the student's accomplishments in Cognitive science for inclusion in that student's program and placement files.

    The Coordinator will also, when appropriate prior to the Ph.D., write for inclusion in a student's files a letter describing that student's work in the Concentration.

    A list of suitable courses for fall 1998 is available here. This list is also available, formatted somewhat differently, in The Graduate School's official listing of courses.

    You can also check several past semesters of courses crosslisted in Cognitive Science, for comparison and to get an idea of what courses might be available in various programs in upcoming semesters.

    Please get in touch with the Coordinator with any questions you may have about course choice, and to discuss plans for work in Cognitive Science.

    In particular, when courses are taken in conjunction with Cognitive Science Concentration, please consult in advance with the Coordinator about course choices.

    And please check with individual professors or with the Executive Officer of the relevant program about prerequisites and desirable background for the various courses.

    It may be helpful to consult the alphabetical listing of all faculty members at the CUNY Graduate School.

    Students and faculty interested in Cognitive Science should also see announcements of our weekly meetings of the Cognitive Science Symposium.


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    The Cognitive Science Symposium meets weekly. All meetings during the regular school year are on Fridays, from 1:00 to 3:00.

    We meet at The City University of New York Graduate School and University Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City, between 34th and 35th Streets. For any information, please e-mail David Rosenthal at

    davidrosenthal@nyu.edu

    From July 2007 through August 2008, meetings of the Cognitive Science Symposium will be run by Myrto Mylopoulos, Dan Shargel, and Ben Young. You can reach them at

    mmmyrto@gmail.com, shargel@gmail.com, or BYoung@gc.cuny.edu.

    Approximately once a month during the school year we have a presentation by somebody outside CUNY; other weeks somebody from within CUNY, either graduate students or faculty, present their work.

    Announcements about meetings are made here and by subscription to the Cognitive Science listserv, cogsci-l (for more, click here).

    We also sometimes meet during the summer, usually then on Thursdays at 2 pm, in room 7-102.

    Click here for the SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE as a pdf file, including dates and speakers. 

    



COGNITIVE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM


Spring 2008, Room 7-102, Fridays, 1:00 pm


February 1:  Michela Tacca
     Philosophy and Social Sciences, Università di Siena
    "The Structure of Vision:  Systematicity of Visual Feature Binding"

February 8:  Kristina Musholt
     Philosophy and Neuroscience, MIT and Berlin School of Mind and Brain
     "Self-Consciousness and (Non-)Conceptual Content"

February 15:  Myrto Mylopoulos
     Philosophy and Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center
    "On the Perceived Timing of Intention and Action"

February 22:  Brian Fiala
    Philosophy, University of Arizona
    "The Phenomenology of Explanation and the Explanation of
Phenomenology"

February 29:  Walter Dean
     Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center
     "A New (?) Argument Against Functionalism"

March 7:  Joshua Dulberger
     Philosophy and Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center
     "The Advantages of Not Being a Zombie:  An Hypothesis for the Function of Consciousness"

March 14:  Jacob Berger
     Philosophy and Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center
     "Do Phenomenal Experiences Constitute Phenomenal Beliefs?"    

March 21 and 28:  No Meetings--Good Friday and CUNY 
     Graduate Student Conference 

April 4:  David Morrow 
     Philosophy and Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center
     "Moral Psychology and the 'Mencian Creature'"

April 11:  No meeting--Tucson Consciousness Conference 

April 18 and 25:  No Meeting--Graduate Center Spring Break

May 2:  John Greenwood
     Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
     "Freud's 'Tally' Argument, the Evaluation of Psychotherapy, and a Most Peculiar Paradox"

May 9:  David Pereplyotchik
     Philosophy and Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center
     Title TBA

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM


Fall 2007, Room 7-102, Fridays, 1:00 pm


September 28:  Rachel Szekely
    Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center 
    "Locating the Existential Import of the Existential Sentence"

October 5:  Clayton Curtis
    Psychology, NYU
    "Frontal Cortical Representations of Space in Service of Memory, Attention, and Intention"

October 12:  Alex Kiefer
    Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 

    "The Self-Representationalist Challenge to HOT Theory"

October 19:  Richard Samuels
    Philosophy, Ohio State University 
    Title TBA

October 26:  Daniel Shargel
    Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 
    "Self-Consciousness as a Function of Consciousness."

November 2:  Jacob Beck
    Philosophy, Harvard University
    Title TBA

November 9:  James Dow
    Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 
    "Self-Consciousness Ain't in the Head"

November 16:  Mark Textor 
    Philosophy, King's College London and Universität Bern
    "Brentano on Judgement and Inner Consciousness"

November 30:  Kristina Musholt
    Philosophy and Neuroscience, MIT and Berlin School of Mind and Brain
    Title TBA

December 7: Philipp Koralus
    Philosophy and Neuroscience, Princeton University 
    "Necker Cubes and Duck Rabbits:  Semantics Meets Visual Feature Binding Theory"
 

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Summer 2007, Room 7-102, Thursdays, 2:00 pm

July 5:  Pete Mandik
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, William Patterson
       University
       "Animat Semantics"

July 12:  Chris Sula
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
       "Noncognitivism and the Neural Correlates of Moral
       Judgment"

July 19:  Benjamin Young
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
       "Functional Psychosyntax"


July 26:  Jim Hitt
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
       

August 2:  Penny Park
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
       "Considering Perception in terms of Sense-Data and Beliefs"

August 16:  Michal Klincewicz
       Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
       "Self-presentation and and The Priority of Intentionality"


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          Spring 2007, Room 7-102, Fridays, 1:00 pm


   February 16:  Faraneh Vargha-Khadem 
        Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
            Development Cognitive Neuroscience Unit
        "Speech and Language and the Evolution of Humans:  Insights 
            from Studies of the FOXP2 Gene and the KE Family"

   February 23:  Uriah Kriegel
        Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona 
            University of Sydney
        "Personal-Level Representation"
        
   March 2:  Elisabeth Brauner
        Psychology, CUNY Subprogram in Experimental Psychology 
        Title TBA

   March 9:  John Kulvicki 
        Philosophy, Dartmouth College
        "Introspective Availability"

   March 16:  Pete Mandik
        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, William 
            Patterson University 
        "The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity"

   March 23:  Alex Kranjec
        Psychology, Brooklyn College
        "Looking for Time in Space:  Extending Spatial 
            Frames of Reference to Temporal Concepts"

   March 30, April 6:  No meetings, Spring Break 
           
   April 13:  Patricia Kitcher 
        Philosophy, Columbia University 
        Title TBA

   April 20:  Aaron Schurger
        Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, 
            Princeton University 
        "Dissociating Attention from Awareness, Theoretically
            and Empirically"

   April 27:  Peter Langland-Hassan
        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 


        "Imagination from the Inside Out" 

   May 4:  TBA
                
   May 11:  Adam Morton
        Philosophy, University of Alberta
        "Searching versus Inference"

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           Fall 2006, Room 7-102, Fridays, 1:00 pm


   September 29, Jerry Fodor 
        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, Rutgers University
        "An Evolutionary Cognitive Science?  We Should All Live So Long"

             >>> Note special room: 9-206 <<<
        
   October 6, Anatoly Nichvoloda
        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
        "A Model of Motorsensory Coordination in Enactive Approach to 
             Perception and Consciousness"
        
   October 13, Virginia Valian
        Linguistics and Psychology, Graduate Center and Hunter College
        "Nativism and Behavioral Evidence"

   October 20, Frank Pupa
        Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
        "Logic, Conversation, and the Semantics of 'and'"

   October 27, Ben Young
        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
        "Intuition Caps, Innateness, and the Exemplar Theory of 
             Phenomenal Concepts"

   November 3, Pierre Jacob
        Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
        "What Do Mirror Neurons Contribute to Human Social Cognition?"

   November 10: Leib Litman and Mark Zelcer
        Psychology, NYU, and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
        "A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to the Sorites Paradox"

   November 17, Glenis Long
        Speech and Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
        "The Ear as a Sound Generator--Understanding Hearing by 
             Measuring Sounds Made by the Ear"

   November 24, No meeting--have a good Thanksgiving

   December 1, Erika Troseth
        Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center
        "Some Aspects of Valency Alternations"

   December 8, Massimo Piatelli-Palmerini
        Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Psychology,
        University of Arizona
        "Rethinking Evolution, Language and the Evolution of Language"
    Friday, February 10: Diego Fernandez-Duque

        Psychology, Villanova University

        "Attention and Perceptual Awareness: Lessons from Neuropsychology" Abstract: I will discuss a case of a patient with atypical Alzheimer's disease that reveals the contribution of attention to the perceptual awareness of objects. This patient is able to see two objects presented sequentially, but can only see one when the objects are presented simultaneously. I will also discuss the case of a patient whose cerebral hemispheres have been disconnected (split-brain). The patient is capable of localizing a stimulus even when unable to recognize its identity. This reveals the presence of spatial localization and attention in the absence of perceptual awareness. For more information about my work and publications, see my website: http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu/diego.fernandezduque/

        Room 7-102

    Friday, February 17: Roblin Meeks

        Princeton University

        "You Are Not Here: Locating the Self in the Brain"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, February 24: Sean Kelly

        Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Princeton University

        "Content and Perceptual Constancy"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 3: Heidi Maibom

        Philosophy, Carlton university

        "I Feel What You Think"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 10: Par Sundstrom

        Philosophy, Umea University, Sweden

        "Sensory Qualities and Concept Empiricism"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 17: Jesse Prinz

        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, University of North Carolina and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

        "Overselling Innateness"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 24: Peter Langland-Hassan

        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

        "Misimagining Mind: Imagery Deficits in Schizophrenia"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 31: David Pereplyotchik

        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

        "Systematicity in Language and Thought"

        Room 7-102

    We will not meet April 7, 14, or 21; have a good spring break.

    Friday, April 28: Arnon Cahen

        Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis

        "The Implicit Self in Perception"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, May 5: John Greenwood

        Psychology and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

        "The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, May 12: Nada Gligorov

        Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

        "Plasticity and Phenomenal Character"

        Room 7-102

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    SPRING 2005 (click here for a list of dates and speakers):

    Friday, February 18: Gary Marcus

        New York University, Psychology

        "Minds, Brains, and Neurons: On the Physical Basis of Complex Cognition"

        NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM: C197

    Friday, February 25: Declan Smithies

        New York University, Philosophy

        "The Autonomy of Personal Level Explanation"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 4: Robert Matthews

        Rutgers University, Cognitive Science and Philosophy

        "A Measurment Account of the Attitudes"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 11: Klara Marton and Richard Schwartz

        Brooklyn College, Psychology, and CUNY Graduate Center, Speech and Hearing Sciences

        "Interaction among Executive Functions, Working Memory, and Language Comprehension"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 18: Stephen Schiffer

        New York University, Philosophy

        "Knowledge of Language"

        Room 7-102

    We won't meet Friday, March 25; have a good week. Friday, April 1: Stephanie Beardman

        Columbia and Barnard, Philosophy

        "Altruism and the Experimental Data on Helping Behavior"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, April 8: Dan Sperber

        Institut Jean Nicod and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

        "An Evolutionary Perspective on Inference and Reasoning"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, April 15: John Greenwood

        CUNY Graduate Center, Philosophy and Psychology

        "From Gall's On the Functions of the Brain to Ferrier's The Functions of the Brain"

        Room 7-102

    We won't meet April 22 or 29; have a good two weeks.

    Friday, May 6: Jennifer Church

        Vassar College, Philosophy

        "Seeing Reasons"

        Room 7-102

    FALL 2004 (click here for a pdf file of speakers and dates):

    Because of the Jewish holidays, we won't meet in September.

    Friday, October 1: Galen Strawson

        Graduate Center and Reading, Philosophy

        "Intentionality and Experience"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 8: Martin Chodorow

        Graduate Center, Linguistics and Hunter College, Psychology

        "Automated Evaluation of Writing"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 15: William P. Seeley

        CUNY Graduate Center, Cognitive Science and Philosophy

        "What Cognitive Science Tell us About Art: Aesthetics and the Constructivist Hypothesis"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 22: Juan Montaña

        CUNY Graduate Center, Cognitive Science and Philosophy

        "Massive Modularity and Rationality"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 29: Sandeep Prasada

        Graduate Center, Linguistics and Hunter College, Psychology

        "Formal Explanatory Structure in Commonsense Conception"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 5: Lewis Bott

        New York University, Psychology

        "Psycholinguistic Investigations into Gricean Implicatures"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 12: Fiona Hibberd

        Sydney, History and Philosophy of Psychology

        "The Compulsion to Repeat and Present-Day Psychology"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 19: Alan Thomas

        University of Kent at Canterbury, Philosophy

        "Reconciling First Order Absorption and the Ubiquity of Self-Awareness"

        Room 7-102

    We won't meet Friday, November 26; have a good Thanksgiving.

    Friday, December 3: Douglas Meehan

        CUNY Graduate Center, Cognitive Science and Philosophy

        "Feature Binding and Multiple-Object Tracking"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, December 10: Pete Mandik

        William Paterson University, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

        "Reductive and Representational Explanation in Synthetic Neuroethology"

        Room 7-102

    SPRING 2004 (click here for a pdf list of dates and speakers):

    Friday, February 20: Sydney Shoemaker

        Cornell and NYU, Philosophy

        "On the Way things Appear"

        NOTE: We'll meet on the Concourse Floor, ROOM C-201.

    Friday, February 27: Joshua M. Knobe

        Princeton University, Philosophy

        "The Normativity of Folk Psychology"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 5: Martin Davies

        Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and CUNY Graduate Center, Philosophy, and Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

        "Anosognosia and the Two-Factor Theory of Delusions"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 12: Anne Aimola Davies

        School of Psychology, Australian National University, Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, Cognitive Science, and Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

        "Disorders of Spatial Orientation and Awareness"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, March 19: Ricardo Otheguy

        CUNY Graduate Center, Linguistics

        "Functional Approaches to Structure and Variation in Language"

        Room 8-203

    Friday, March 26: Josh Weisberg

        CUNY Graduate Center, Cognitive Science and Philosophy

        "Is This Trip Really Necessary? A Critique of Modal Methods in Consciousness Studies"

        Room 7-102

    We won't meet Friday, April 2 or 9; have a good Spring break.

    Friday, April 16: Brian Loar

        Rutgers University, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

        "Recognitional Concepts"

        Room 7-102

    SATURDAY, April 17: Tony Stone and Martin Davies

        Tony Stone is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University; Martin Davies is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences and the CUNY Graduate Center.

        They will talk at 10 am on Theory of Mind, and

        at 4 pm on delusions.

        >>> Note Special Room: C-197

    Friday, April 23: John Greenwood

        CUNY Graduate Center, Philosophy

        "What Happened to the 'Social' in Social Psychology?"

        Room 8-203

    Friday, April 30: Oliver Kauffmann

        University of Copenhagen, Philosophy

        "HOT Worries: Critical Reflections on the Higher-Order-Thought Theory of Consciousness"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, May 7: Suparna Rajaram

        SUNY Stony Brook, Psychology

        "Intact and Impaired Memories: Processing and Neural Considerations"

        Room 7-102

    FALL 2003 (click here for a pdf list of dates and speakers):

    Friday, September 19: John Flavell

        Stanford, Psychology

        "Development of Children's Knowledge about Mental Experiences"

        >>> NOTE: We'll meet on the Concourse Floor, ROOM C-197.

    Friday, September 26: Rebecca Robare

        CUNY Program in Experimental Cognition

        "Orthographic Processing and Semantic Access: How the Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres Process the Shapes of Words"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 3: William McClure

        Graduate Center, Program in Linguistics

        "Change of State Syntax"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 10: Michael Devitt

        CUNY Graduate Center, Philosophy

        "Intuitions in Linguistics"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 17: Chris Summerfield

        Columbia University, Psychology

        "Top-Down Influences on Visual Awareness: Seeing What You Expect to See"

        Room 8-203

    Friday, October 24: Massimo Piatelli-Palmerini

        University of Arizona, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Psychology

        "Lessons from the Piaget-Chomsky (et at least.) Debate 30 Years after"

        Room 7-102

    A written version (in two parts) is available online at:

    http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cogsci/private/piattelli-1.pdf

    http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cogsci/private/piattelli-2.pdf

    Friday, October 31: James M. Hitt

        Graduate Center, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

        "Fear"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 7: Achille Varzi

        Columbia University, Philosophy

        "The Hole Story"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 14: Frances Egan

        Rutgers University, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

        "Putting Mind in its Place: Two Kinds of Psychological Externalism"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 21: Karyl Swartz

        Lehman College, Psychology

        "What is Mirror Self-Recognition?"

        >>> Room 8-203

    We won't meet Friday, November 28; have a good Thanksgiving.

    Friday, December 5: Robert Lutzker

        Graduate Center, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

        "Recognitional Concepts and Conscious Sensations"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, December 12: Par Sundstrom

        NYU and Umea University, Sweden, Philosophy

        "Colour and Consciousness"

        Room 7-102


    If you'd like to volunteer to give a talk or suggest somebody else as a speaker, or if you're not subscribed to the Cognitive Science LISTSERV, cogsci-l and would like to be, please e-mail David Rosenthal at:

    davidrosenthal@nyu.edu
    If you're subscribed and would like to post a message to the Cognitive Science LISTSERV, Cogsci-l, please send mail to cogsci-l@listserv.gc.cuny.edu or click on Cognitive Science listserv.
    Further information about meetings of the Cognitive Science Symposium will be posted both here and to the COGSCI-L listserv for Cognitive Science at CUNY.

    The Fall 2002 schedule was as follows:


    Friday, September 20: Alvin I. Goldman

        Rutgers University Department of Philosophy and the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)

        "Elucidation and Defense of the Simulation Theory of Mindreading: From Philosophy to Cognitive Neuroscience"

        NOTE: We'll meet on the 4th Floor, in the SCIENCE CENTER, ROOM 4-102.

    Friday, September 27: Diana Buchman

        The Marine Mammal Laboratory of the Osborne Laboratory for Marine Sciences, NY Aquarium, and the CUNY Biopsychology and Hunter College Animal Behavior and Conservation Subprograms

        "Preliminary Observations of Mirror Self-Recognition in Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus Leucas): A Comparative Perspective"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 4: Saul Smilansky

        University of Haifa, Department of Philosophy

        "Reflections on the Free Will Problem"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 11: Sergei Artemov

        CUNY Graduate Center Programs in Computer Science and Philosophy

        "Semantics of Epistemic Logic: Witnesses vs. Possible Worlds"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, October 18: Mark McEvoy

        CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Program

        "There Goes the Neighbourhood: How the Materialist about Minds Can Live with Knowledge of Abstract Objects"

        Room 8-203

    Friday, October 25: Jenn Fisher

        CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Program

        "Normative Theories of How We Know Logic"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 1: Jonathan Waskan

        The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

        "Minds are In, and Contents--which Explain but do not Cause--are Out"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 8: Valerie Shafer

        CUNY Graduate Center Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences

        "Neuro-Electrical Indices of Language Processing: What Can They Tell Us about Language and the Brain?"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, November 15: Arthur Reber

        CUNY Graduate Center Psychology Program, Sub-Program in Experimental Psychology

        "Musings on the Origins of Consciousness"

        The talk will in part give a preview of the Cognitive Science IDS Course he will offer in Spring 2003 on The Cognitive Unconscious.

        Room 8-203

    Friday, December 6: Barbara Montero

        Georgia State University, Department of Philosophy

        "Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense"

        Room 7-102

    Friday, December 13: Elizabeth Vlahos

        New York University, Philosophy

        "How Not to Explain Consciousness: Why (All) Higher-Order Accounts Fail"

        Room 7-102

        Room 7-102


    The following talks were given during Fall 2001:

    On Friday, September 21, Jerrold J. Katz of the CUNY Graduate Center Programs in Philosophy and in Linguistics will give a talk entitled "Is Philosophy of Language Based on a Mistake?"

    On Friday, September 28, Dan Zahavi of the Department of Educational Philosophy at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen will give a talk entitled "The Problem of Self-Awareness in Twentieth-Century German Thought."

    On Friday, October 5, Fritz McDonald on the CUNY Program in Philosophy will lead a discussion on John Perry's paper, "Self-Notions," available online at:

    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/PHILPAPERS/self-notions.pdf

    On Friday, October 12, Christopher Viger, Canadian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University and Visiting Scholar in Cognitive Science at CUNY will give a talk entitled "What Consciousness Might Be For."

    On Friday, October 19, Georges Rey of the University of Maryland at College Park Department of Philosophy will give a talk entitled "Representational Content and a Chomskyan Linguistics."

    On Friday, October 26, Gilbert Harman of the Princeton University Department of Philosophy will give a talk entitled "Practical Aspects of Theoretical Reasoning."

    On Friday, November 2, David Pitt of Brooklyn College will give a talk entitled "Psychologism in Linguistics."

    On Friday, November 9, James J. Jenkins and Winifrid Strange, both of the Graduate Center Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences will give a talk entitled "Dynamic Variance in Speech Perception: What Experimenters Do when 'What Everybody knows is true' is False."

    On Friday, November 16, Patricia Kitcher of the Columbia University Department of Philosophy will give a talk entitled "Freud's Moral Psychology."

    On Friday, November 30, we will have two talks:

    From 11 am - 1 pm: Martin Davies of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, now visiting at Michigan, will give a talk entitled "People Believe the Strangest Things: Delusions and Where They Come From."

    From 2 - 4 pm: Anne Maguire of the School of Psychology at the Australian National University, now visiting at the University of Michigan, will talk on "Studies in Unilateral Neglect."

    On Friday, December 7, Nada Gligorov, Graduate Center Philosophy and Cognitive Science, will talk on research about masked priming.

    On Friday, December 14, Pete Mandik, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, William Paterson University, will give a talk entitled "Varieties of Representation in Evolved Autonomous Agents."

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    • FALL '01:
    Topics in IDS (Cognitive Science): Innateness of Language
    (IDS 701)

    Professor Janet Dean Fodor, Linguistics, GSUC

    Tuesday, 4:15-6:15

    Description: IDS 701 Innateness of Language Janet Dean Fodor Grad Ctr, Tuesdays 4:15

    We will review and update the classic arguments for innate knowledge of language: species specificity, neurological and genetic bases, language universals, poverty of the stimulus for acquisition. On this we will read Bickerton, Chomsky, Crain, Marcus, Pinker and others. We will also examine the recent arguments against innateness of language, in work by Cowie, Elman et al., Pullum, Sampson, and others. This is an interdisciplinary course. Students from all relevant programs (linguistics, philosophy, psychology, speech and hearing, computer science) are welcome.

    Janet Dean Fodor Professor, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 jfodor@gc.cuny.edu Tel: 212-817-8502

    SPRING '98:

    Cognitive Science Course: Listed as Speech and Hearing U803

    TIME: Thursday, 11:45-1:45, Room 927 Main Graduate Center Building, 3 credits

    "Complex Systems in Neurobiology, Language and Speech"

    Kevin Knuth, Ph.D.

    NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences and Researcher at the Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    See also Complex Systems Course Information

    Those interested in the course should send email to Dr. Knuth at kknuth@balrog.aecom.yu.edu about times that would be best for the course to be held; Dr. Knuth will try to accommodate as many people as possible.

    The study of complex systems is the ultimate interdisciplinary study having emerged from advances in many diverse fields such as: anthropology, biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, linguistics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, psychology, and sociology. What do these fields have in common? They all deal with a variety of problems that exhibit extreme complexity, yet are all derived from the same most basic building blocks and ultimately are expected to follow the same physical laws. The study of complex systems explores the similarities among the rich variety of complex systems in an attempt to learn the basic laws or rules that govern their structure, behavior, and evolution.

    The first part of the course will be a general introduction to complex systems and will focus on their common characteristics. From this broad picture we will develop the ability to see these systems differently. Armed with this new intuition and a host of new questions we will examine three fields in more detail: neurobiology, language, and speech. The design and behavior of the nervous system will be approached in terms of structures and behaviors common in complex systems. We will explore the dynamics of coordination, and the nature of perception. Language will be examined from several different points of view: as an interaction between complex systems, a process of encoding information, and a property of a larger evolving complex system constrained by biology and sociology.

    This course will be approached intuitively with very little mathematics. Students from all fields are encouraged to enroll, especially those in the cognitive sciences, linguistics, speech and hearing, and philosophy. There is no textbook, but selected readings will be handed out during the course. Enthusiastic students may prepare by browsing through the following:

    Kauffman, S. 1995. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Oxford Press, Oxford.

    Gell-Mann, M. 1994. The Quark and the Jaguar, W.H. Freeman and Co., NY.

    Kelso, J.A.S. 1995. Dynamic Patterns. The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

    Or by re-igniting your passion for science (related to complexity of course):

    Eiseley, L. 1978. The Star Thrower, Harcourt Brace and Co., NY.

    Hofstadter, D.R. 1979. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, NY.

    Schrödinger, E. 1944. What is Life?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

     

    Or check out the following web sites for starters:

    The Santa Fe Institute

    New England Complex Systems Institute - NEW!!!!

    The Center for Complex Systems at Florida Atlantic University

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               Conference on Methods

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               Saturday May 3, 1997



               The New School, NYC

                (66 West 12th St.)





     Session I (10am) "Concepts: A New Account"



          Speaker: Christopher Peacocke, Professor of Philosophy,

          Oxford and New York Universities



          Commentators: Georges Rey, Professor of Philosophy,

          University of Maryland, College Park

          Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton

          University



     Session II (2pm) Frank Sulloway's Born to Rebel





          Introduction: Frank Sulloway, Research Scholar, M.I.T.



          Speakers: Morris Eagle, Professor of Psychology, Derner

          Institute, Adelphi University.

          Miriam Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, Temple

          University.



          Respondent: Frank Sulloway.





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  • Society for Philosophy and Psychology, '97 Conference:

                        PROGRAM FOR THE 1997 ANNUAL MEETING

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               SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY



                          June 5-8, 1997



                New School for Social Research

                        New York City







     NOTE:  ON THURSDAY AND SUNDAY THE CONFERENCE MEETS AT:



                     65 Fifth Avenue, near 13th Street.



            ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY THE CONFERENCE MEETS AT:



                     66 West 12th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.







THURSDAY, June 5



9:00-12:00 Contributed Papers: PERCEPTION AND CONTENT



CHAIR:  Frances Egan (Rutgers)



David Sanford (Duke): "Some Puzzles about Prosthetic Perception"

Commentator: Alva Noe (UC Santa Cruz)



Robert Cummins (Arizona): "The LOT of the Causal Theory of Content"

Commentator: Fred Dretske (Stanford)



Steven Horst (Wesleyan): "Phenomenology and Psychophysics"

Commentator: Wade Savage (Minnesota)






9:00-12:00 Contributed Papers: INNATENESS



CHAIR: TBA




Gary Marcus (Massachusetts):  "Can Connectionism Save Constructivism?"

Commentator: Bill Ramsey (Notre Dame)



Brian Scholl (Rutgers): "Cognitive Architecture and Cognitive

Development: Two Senses of Surprise"

Commentator: TBA



Andre Ariew (Arizona): "Pinker's Parsimony: The Innateness Debate over

Language Acquisition"

Commentator: Robert Matthews (Rutgers)





1:15-4:00  Invited Symposium: IMPLICIT COGNITION



CHAIR:  David Chalmers (UC Santa Cruz)



SPEAKERS:   Philip Merikle (Waterloo)

            Larry Jacoby (NYU)

            Arthur Reber (CUNY)





4:15-5:30  Invited Lecture:



CHAIR:      TBA

SPEAKER:    Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Yale)

TITLE:      "The Neurobiology of Mental Representation"





5:30-8:00  Poster Session + Reception (with wine & hors-d'oeuvres)



POSTERS:



  Michael Antony (Haifa): "On the Temporal Boundaries of Simple Experiences"



  Alex Barber (McGill): "Semantic Theory and Causal/Explanatory Structure"



  S. Bringsjord, R. Noel, E. Bringsjord, G. Ginader, C. Viaggi, J. Daraio (RPI)

  "Explaining Phi without Dennett's Exotica: Good Ol' Computation Suffices"



  Jonathan Cohen (Rutgers): "The Case Against Holism Reconsidered"



  John Gibbons (NYU): "Truth in Action"



  Glenn A. Hartz (Ohio State): "How We Can be Moved by _Anna Karenina_ --

  and Green Slime"



  Jason Holt (Western Ontario): "Blindsight, Visual Streams, and Perception"



  Alexander Levine (Lehigh): "A Potential Circularity in the Study of

  Conceptual Change in Childhood"



  Mimi Marinucci (Temple): "Hume Revisited: Skepticism and Optimism and

  Contemporary Naturalistic Epistemology"



  Maja Mataric (Brandeis): "Studying the Role of Embodiment in Cognition"



  Natika Newton (NY Institute of Technology): "The Contradictions of

  Consciousness"



  David Pitt (Nebraska): "Nativism and the Theory of Content"




  Teed Rockwell: "Beyond Eliminative Materialism: Some Unnoticed Implications

  of Churchland's Pragmatic Pluralism"



  Peter W. Ross (CUNY): "Finding the Errors of Projectivist Theories of Color"



  Oron Shagrir (Hebrew U.): "Toward a Semantic Conce[tion of Computation"



  Paul Skokowski (Oxford): "Hard to Believe?  Networks and Representations"



  Edward Stein (Yale): "Toward a Sophisticated Psychological Theory of Sexual

  Orientation"



  Michael Strevens (Iowa State): "Theories of Artifacts:A Neoclassical Account"



  Karsten Stueber (Holy Cross): "Simulation or Interpretation: Is the

  Simulation Theory Philosophically Testable?"



  Barbara Von Eckardt & Jeffrey Poland (Nebraska): "In Defense of the

  Standard View"



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FRIDAY, June 6



9:00-11:45 Invited Symposium: EVOLUTION OF COGNITION



CHAIR:      Colin Beer (Rutgers)



SPEAKERS:   Elliott Sober (Wisconsin)

            Susan Oyama (CUNY)

            Bruce Moore (Dalhousie)





11:45-1:15 Executive Committee Meeting





1:15-3:15 Contributed Papers: CONSCIOUSNESS IN PHILOSOPHY



CHAIR: Stuart Silvers (Clemson)



Michael Peirce (Colorado): "Inverted Intuitions: Occupants and Roles"

Commentator: Terry Horgan (Memphis)



Brie Gertler (William and Mary): "Introspecting Phenomenal States"

Commentator: Robert van Gulick (Syracuse)





1:15-3:15 Contributed Papers: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, MODULARITY



CHAIR: TBA



William Hirstein & V.S. Ramachandran (UC San Diego): "Identity and Familiarity

of Faces in Capgras's Syndrome"

Commentator: Janet Metcalfe (Columbia)



Irene Appelbaum (Montana): "Context and Cognitive Architecture"

Commentator: Ignatius Mattingly (Haskins Labs)





3:40-4:55 Invited Lecture



CHAIR:     Alice Kyburg (Wisconsin)

SPEAKER:   Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester)

TITLE:     "Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension"








4:55-6:10 Invited Lecture



CHAIR:     Carolyn Ristau (Barnard)

SPEAKER:   Paul Rozin (Pennsylvania)

TITLE:     "Disgust, Contagion, and Preadaptation"



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SATURDAY, JUNE 7



9:00-12:00 Invited Symposium: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP



CHAIR:      David Rosenthal (CUNY)



SPEAKERS:   Ned Block (NYU)

            Nicholas Humphrey (New School)

            Michael Tye (Temple)



DISCUSSANT: Daniel Dennett (Tufts)





1:15-3:15 Contributed Papers: CONCEPTS



CHAIR: Jane Duran (UC Santa Barbara)



Ruth Millikan (Connecticut): "Images of Identity: In Search of Modes of

Presentation"

Commentator: Mark Crimmins (Michigan)



Jesse Prinz (Washington U.): "Regaining Composure: A Defense of Prototype

Compositionality"

Commentator: Luca Bonatti (NYU)





1:15-3:15 Contributed Papers: CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY



CHAIR:    Jim Garson (Houston)



Ian Gold (Australian National U.): "40-hertz Oscillation, Binding, and

Visual Consciousness"

Commentator: Jochen Braun (Caltech)



Bernard Baars (Wright Institute): "Consciousness Creates Global Access:

Seven Examples and How They Relate to Personal Experience"

Commentator: Owen Flanagan (Duke)





3:30-4:45 Invited Lecture



CHAIR:     TBA

SPEAKER:   Gilbert Harman (Princeton)

TITLE:     "Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Does Virtue Ethics

            Commit the `Fundamental Attribution Error'?"





4:45-5:45 Business Meeting





6:15 Banquet Begins (Wine, Appetizers)

6:30 Presidential Address: Marcel Kinsbourne (New School)

                           "The Brain's Consciousnesses"

7:30 Dinner



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SUNDAY, June 8



9:30-12:15 Invited Symposium: LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS




CHAIR:     Robert Gordon (Missouri)




SPEAKERS:  Susan Carey (NYU)

           Lila Gleitman (Pennsylvania)

           Stephen Schiffer (NYU)





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Conference Registration:



  John Bickle (pybickle@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu)



Local Arrangements:



  Nicholas Haslam (haslam@newschool.edu)

  Michael Schober (schober@newschool.edu)



Program Chairs:



  David Chalmers (chalmers@paradox.ucsc.edu)

  Carolyn Ristau (car31@columbia.edu)





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Sep 30 -- Stephen Jose Hanson,  Psychology Department, Rutgers- Newark



                "Some Problems in Knowledge Representation (Part I):

                     Some comments on mapping spatial body sense with

                     connectionist systems"





Oct 7 -- John Ceraso,  Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark



                "Spatial Location and the Integration of Properties"





Oct 14 -- Alan Gilchrist, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark



                "Veridicality and Error in Visual Perception"







Oct 28 -- Benjamin O. Martin, Psychology Department Harvard University



                "Imaging language