Département de Philosophie

15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 9-12 July 2007

Program

Invited Speakers:

• James Blair (NIMH, Bethesda, USA)
  The development of moralities and immoralities: The brain bases and cognitive-affective functional processes (abstract)
  
• Michael Waldmann (Göttingen, Germany)
  The Causality of Moral Dilemmas (abstract)
  
• Zoltan Szabo (Yale, USA)
  The determination of content(abstract)
  
• Keith Stenning (Edinburgh, GB)
  The origin of specialties(abstract)
  
• Paul Harris (Harvard, USA)
  Trust in testimony(abstract)
  

Invited Symposia:

• Mutual exclusivity, opened by Josef Perner (Salzburg), with Ellen Markman (Stanford), Lori Markson (Berkeley) and Martin Doherty (Stirling)
• Children's conception of desire, opened by Johannes Roessler (Warwick), with Josef Perner (Salzburg) and Fred Schueler (New Mexico)
• Attention in neuropsychology and philosophy, opened by Martin Davies (Oxford), with Anne Aimola Davies (Australian National University), Philippe Chuard (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and Robert Rafal (Bangor) and Patrik Vuillemier (Geneva)
• Moral Emotions, opened by Kevin Mulligan (Geneva), with Peter Goldie (Manchester), Paul Harris (Harvard) and Klaus Scherer (Geneva)

Submitted Symposia:

• Emotion and attention, opened by David Sander (Geneva), with David Sander & Tobias Brosch, Patrik Vuillemier and Christine Tappolet.
• Aspects of Knowledge Processing, opened by Josef Ilmberger (Munich), with Josef Ilmberger & Britta Glatzeder, Riccardo Manzotti, Susanne Neufang and Michael Öllinger.

The conference starts Monday morning and lasts until Thursday evening. Registration starts Monday morning 8 am at the conference venue, in the university building "Uni Mail", in the south-east corner of the "Plaine de Plainpalais". Click here for a map. All talks will take place at Uni-Mail.

Click here to download the program, and here for a short version.

Monday 9th of July

Tuesday 10th of July

Wednesday 11th of July

Thursday 12th of July

chair: Richard Breheny

Josep Macía, "On the relationship between semantic theories and meaning" (abstract)

Bibiane Rendl & Josef Perner, "Children's understanding of identity statements" (abstract)

Nausicaa Pouscoulous, "Are scalar inferences implicit or explicit?" (abstract)

Sally Parker Ryan, "Semantics, Pragmatics and Norms of Meaning" (abstract)

chair: Julien Dutant

Esther Romero & Belén Soria, "Metaphors: what is said or what is implicated?" (abstract)

Erika Nurmsoo & Elizabeth J. Robinson, "Learning from others: Children's understanding of speaker inaccuracy" (abstract)

Richard Breheny, "What Infant Reference Studies Can Tell Us About the Nature of Human Communication" (abstract)

Tanya Behne, "Early communication and pragmatics - Exploring young children's comprehension of deictic and iconic gestures" (abstract)

chair: Julien Deonna

Stéphane Lemaire, "The Construction of Self-Conscious Emotions" (abstract)

Marius Dumitru, "What It Is Like to Think" (abstract, paper)

Mark Sprevak, "Functionalism and the extended mind" (abstract)

Nicholas Shea, "Connectionist Representational Development" (abstract)

convenor: David Sander

Tobias Brosch & David Sander, "Appraisal mechanisms and attention" (abstract)

Patrik Vuilleumier, "Emotional attention" (abstract)

Christine Tappolet, "Emotion and attention" (abstract)

chair: Teresa McCormack

Patrick Burns & Teresa McCormack, "Inferring causal structure: the role of timing" (abstract)

Vivienne Brown, "Reconceptualising 'action' and 'agency': a new approach to libertarianism?" (abstract)

Nancy Brenner-Golomb, "Does voluntary attention imply free will?" (abstract, paper)

Leonardo De Mello Ribeiro, "Hedonic Desires and Reasons for Action" (abstract)

chair: Christian Maurer

Olivier Massin, "Mixed feelings and the feeling of effort: when we are pleased because we are displeased." (abstract)

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, "Hating the One You Love" (abstract)

Astrid Hopfensitz & Ernesto Reuben, "The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment" (abstract)

Agnes Moors, "Automatic constructive appraisal as a candidate cause of emotion" (abstract)

chair: Anne Meylan

Otto Bruun & Fabrice Teroni, "Shame and its Evolution" (abstract)

Julien Deonna & Olivier Massin, "Do emotions exist?" (abstract)

Åsa Carlson, "Gibbard and moral emotions" (abstract)

Alison Denham, "Reading Distress: Selective Egocentrism in Factor 1 Psychopaths" (abstract)

chair: Elisabeth Pacherie

Ralph Schumacher, "Finding the Right Level of Explanation: The Educational Implications of Neuroscience" (abstract)

Murray Clarke, "Does Error Evolve?" (abstract)

Paolo Bonardi, "The Fregean Theory of Belief and the Anaphora" (abstract)

Philipp Keller, "Counterevaluatives" (abstract)

chair: Samia Hurst

Francesca De Vecchi, "The Agency of the Spontaneous Acts" (abstract)

Hannes Rakoczy, ""That's just the way it's done!" - Young children's understanding of the normative structure of conventional action forms" (abstract)

Harriet Over & Merideth Gattis, "Having and Understanding Intentions" (abstract)

Louise Röska-Hardy, "Autobiographical Memory, Narrative and the Self" (abstract)

convenor: Josef Ilmberger

Josef Ilmberger & Britta Glatzeder, "Kinds of Knowledge: a taxonomical approach" (abstract)

Riccardo Manzotti, "From phenomenal experience to knowledge" (abstract)

Susanne Neufang et al., "Iconic knowledge processing in children" (abstract)

Michael Öllinger, "I morph therefore I know"

chair: Raffaele Rodogno

Charlotte Blease, "More Troubles for Churchland" (abstract)

Annika Wallin, "Is egocentric bias evidence for Simulation theory? A critique of Goldman" (abstract)

Karsten Stueber, "The Ethical Dimension of Folk Psychology?" (abstract)

Alberto Masala, "Virtue Theory and its 'Normative Niche': How to Defend Virtue Ethics from the Attack of Situationist Social Psychology" (abstract, paper)

chair: Corine Besson

Valeria Giardino, "The notion of counting" (abstract)

Mario Santos-Sousa, "The 'Bootstrapping' Metaphor" (abstract)

Friederike Moltmann, "Reference to Numbers in Natural Language" (abstract)

Julien Dutant, "Knowledge Ascriptions and Gradability" (abstract)

chair: Josep Macia

Elena Zinchenko & Jesse Snedeker, "The Role of Sensory-Motor Information in Concepts" (abstract)

Malte Dahlgrün, "Recognitional concepts" (abstract)

Jussi Jylkkä & Henry Railo & Jussi Haukioja, "Psychological essentialism and externalism" (abstract)

Peter Wyss, "Emergence And The Individuation Of Kinds" (abstract)

chair: Matthew Nudds

Stuart Derbyshire, A. Chaudhuri & P. Behan, "Is Fish Pain a Misnomer?" (abstract)

Ursina Teuscher, "Time-space synesthesia and conceptual time-space mappings: A look at neural bases and at the synesthete in all of us" (abstract)

Sandrine Darsel,"Musical experience and sentimental education" (abstract)

Chiara Guarda, "Functionalism and Experience" (abstract)

chair: Sandrine Darsel

Christopher Gauker, "Similarity and Seeing-As" (abstract)

Anirban Mukherjee, "Understanding Helmholtz on Perception" (abstract)

Emmanuelle Glon, "A Window into a Virtual World; compensation theory and seeing-in" (abstract)

Keith Allen, "Perceptual Constancy" (abstract)

chair: Olivier Massin

Gillian Waters & Sarah Beck, "The influence of information access on young children"s understanding of perceptual modalities as sources of knowledge" (abstract)

Hemdat Lerman, "Perceptual experience and correctness conditions" (abstract)

Matthew Nudds, "Visually guided action" (abstract)

Philippe Chuard, "Chromatic Appearance, Intransitivity and Context-Shift" (abstract)

chair: E.J. Robinson

Mark Jary, "Assertion and false belief attribution" (abstract)

Laurence Kaufmann & Fabrice Clément, "Are theory of mind and deontic reasoning two independent subsystems of social cognition?" (abstract)

Richard Griffin & Daniel Dennett, "What does the study of autism tell us about the craft of folk psychology?" (abstract)

Henrike Moll & Michael Tomasello, "Infants' Understanding of What Others See & Know" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B2. Knowledge/ Self-Knowledge

chair: Philipp Keller

Fabian Dorsch, "Imagining and Knowing" (abstract)

Lisa Bortolotti, "Does authorship contribute to self-knowledge?" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B3. Knowledge / Self-Knowledge

chair: Hannes Rakoczy

Anita Konzelmann-Ziv, "Epistemic Feeling - Truth-Conduciveness and Shared Intentionality" (abstract)

Jun Luo, "Ontological Norms Wanting Mechanism: Principled Explanation in Infancy" (abstract)

chair: Johannes Roessler

Elizabeth Irvine, "The Exclusion-Failure Paradigm and Signal Detection Theory - P without A consciousness?" (abstract)

Dorothea Debus, "Memory, Imagination, and Narrative" (abstract)

Benedicte Veillet, "Concept Acquisition and the Content of Experience" (abstract)

Catherine Stinson, "Attention, Volition, and the Ghost in the Machine" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B5. Causation / counterfactuals

chair: Flavia Padovani

Sarah R Beck, "What do children understand about what almost happened?" (abstract)

Teresa McCormack, Patrick Burns & Stephen Butterfill, "Detecting blickets: What processes underpin young children's causal judgments?" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B6. Metaphysics / logic

chair: Fabrice Correia

Aisling Crean, "Humean Humility" (abstract)

Margarita Vázquez, "Solutions to the Surprise Exam Paradox" (abstract)

chair: tba

Richard Moore, "Daniel Dennett"s Account of the Child"s Accession to Language and Thought" (abstract)

Manuel Hernández Iglesias, "Literality and the semantics/pragmatics distinction" (abstract)

Mark Cain, "Linguistics and Philosophy: A Response to Devitt" (abstract)

Patrick Hawley, "Attention and Proper Names" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B8. Traits, Emotion

chair: Ivo Walliman

Sergi Rosell, "Skepticism about Character Traits" (abstract)

Matthew Broome, Louise Johns & Isabel Valli, "Decision-making and delusion formation in people at risk for psychosis" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B9. Traits, Emotion

chair: tba

Ivo Wallimann, "Equal Opportunity and Emotions" (abstract)

Catrin Misselhorn, "In Defense of Moderate Moralism. An Emotion-based Account" (abstract)

chair: tba

Panu Raatikainen, "Mental Causation and the Interventionist Theory of Causation" (abstract)

Jean-Yves Beziau, "Imagination in Perspective" (abstract)

Juan Suarez, "Is Disjunctivism the best account of perceptual content?" (abstract)

Jan Slaby, "Affective Intentionality - Identifying the Key Issues" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B11. Modularity

chair: Alice ter Meulen

Dario Taraborelli & Ángeles Eraña, "Drilling down to modules. On the need of Individuation Criteria for Cognitive Modularity" (abstract)

Giuseppe Lo Dico, "A module for decision-making? Some critical remarks on Damasio"s somatic marker hypothesis" (abstract)

18.00-19.00
B12. Innateness / Perception

chair: tba

Matteo Mameli , "On the Theoretical Function of the Notion of Innateness" (abstract)

Gloria Ayob, "Perceptual switching:understanding the significance of the dynamical account of perception" (abstract)

[Posters are presented on both days unless otherwise noted]

Maxim Abelev, "Young children's talk about pretense as non-literal language use: the role of pragmatics" (abstract)

Daniel Acquah & Peter Mitchell & Fenja Ziegler, "Towards a functional account of theory of mind" (abstract)

Sarah R Beck & Kevin J Riggs & Sarah L Gorniak, "Executive demands in preschoolers' counterfactual thinking" (abstract)

Markus Christen & Adrian Jaeggi & Ina Kaufmann & Nicole Miller & Claudia Rudolf von Rohr, "Naturalizing Moral Agency - Prospects and Perils" (abstract)

Marian Counihan, "What's logic got to do with it?: reasoning and language use in logical reasoning tasks" (abstract)

Olga Fernández-Prat, "Philosophy and Neuroscience: the Case of Attention" (abstract)

Susanne Grassmann & Jennifer Kittel & Michael Tomasello, "Mutual Exclusivity vs. Pragmatics in early Word Learning" (abstract)

Hai-Sook Kim & Kyungwon Seo, "The effect of the exposure to the hostile-sexist and benevolent-sexist ideologies and attitudes on self perception" (abstract)

Anna Elbieta Melon & Maciej Haman, "The development of understanding of the ambiguous emotions" (abstract)

Kim Minjung & Jung Hyosun & Jeong Woorim, "fMRI brain activation during second-order false-belief task in healthy adults" (abstract)

Grainne Ni Mhaille & Jean Quigley, "The body in health psychology" (abstract)

Erika Nurmsoo & Brian Scholl, "Word learning and unlearning: Preschoolers revise the meanings of newly learned words" (abstract)

Jody Osborn & Stuart W. Derbyshire, "Pain in response to unpleasant visual stimuli" (abstract)

Jean-Claude Pages, "Programmable Scenarios as future supports for Philosophy" (abstract)

SooJin Park & Kyung Ja Cho & Hei Rhee Ghim & Eun-Hye Park & In-Hye Song & Su-Mi Yi, "Developmental change of mind reading" (abstract)

Kwang B Park & Ji-sook Nam, "Development of a Paper-and-Pencil Test to Measure Eye-Hand Coordination as an Application of Cybernetics Principle" (abstract)

Raphael van Riel, "What an Epiphenomenalist"s Mind Can Do" (abstract)

Olga Liverta Sempio & Antonella Marchetti & Giulia Cavalli, "Theory of Mind and Alexithymia in children" (abstract)