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Previous Meetings:

21 Mar 2012

Presenter: Julien Deonna & Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva)
Title: Emotions as Attitudes

7 Mar 2012

Presenter: Matteo Columbo (University of Edinburgh)
Title: "Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study"
(Joint work with Aistis Stankevicius and Peggy Seriès).

29 Feb 2012

Presenter: Allan Hazlett (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Bias and Personality

22 Feb 2012

Presenter: Jean-Michel Roy (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Title: The Problem of Unconscious Consciousness

8 Feb 2012

Presenter: Tim Bates (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Brain mechanisms for moral behavior

25 Jan 2012

Presenter: Robert O'Shaughnessy (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Disposable symbols

30 Nov 2011

Presenter: John Kulvicki (Dartmouth University)
Title: Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition view

26 Oct 2011

Presenter: Zoe Drayson (Australian National University)
Title: On personal and sub-personal states

5 Oct 2011

Presenter: Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)
Title: Intentional Imagination and Default Thought

28 Sep 2011

Presenter: Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Achieving Transparency: A case for strong enactivism

June 15th, 2011

Presenter: Anthony Morse (University of Plymouth)
Title: Thinking with your body (PDF)

May 18th, 2011

Presenter: David Reichert (Informatics)
Title: Hallucinations in Charles Bonnet Syndrome Induced by Homeostasis: a Deep Boltzmann Machine Model (PDF)

April 13th, 2011

Presenters: Julian Kiverstein and Till Vierkant
Title: Introduction to Decomposing the Will (doc)

March 25th, 2011

Presenter: Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Confronting Many-Many Problems: Attention and Agentive Control (PDF)

March 9th, 2011

Presenter: Mark Adams (Edinburgh)
Reading 1: Cashmore AR (2010) The Lucretian swerve: The biological basis of human behavior and the criminal justice system. PNAS.
Reading 2: Brembs B (2011) Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates. Proc R Soc B.

February 23rd, 2011

Presenter: Alexandre Monnin (Sorbonne)
Title: Philosophy of the Web as artifactualization (PDF)

February 9th, 2011

Presenter: Richard Stöckle Schobel
Paper: Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities (PDF)

January 26th, 2011

Presenter: Tim Bates
Title: "What does a gene have to be, to be a gene "for""?
Introductory Paper: "A Gene for…": The Nature of Gene Action in Psychiatric Disorders

January 12th, 2011

Presenter: Mark Sprevak
Paper: Inference to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition (PDF)

December 15th, 2010

Presenters: Matteo Colombo and Matthew Chalk
Paper 1: Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases
Paper 2: Letting structure emerge: connectionist and dynamical systems approaches to cognition
Overview: Matteo Colombo and Matthew Chalk presented on the recent TICS debate between 'structured probabilistic' and 'connectionist and emergentist' approaches to mind.

November 18th, 2010

Discussant: Jesse Prinz
Paper 1: The Emotional Basis of Moral Judgments
Paper 2: Resisting the Linguistic Analogy: A Commentary on Hauser, Young, and Cushman
Overview: Jesse Prinz's work on morality was discussed.

October 20th, 2010

Presenter: Mark Miller (Philosophy)
Title: The Brain's Default Network (PDF)

October 6th, 2010

Presenter: Gary Lewis (Psychology)
Title: Individual Variability in Brain Activity: A Nuisance or an Opportunity?

May 19th, 2010

Presenter: Samuli Poyhonen
Title: Natural kinds with extended mechanisms (PDF)

May 5th, 2010

Presenter: Richard Stoeckle
Title: Doing without concepts (PDF)

April 21st, 2010

Presenter: Liz Irvine
Title: What is Psychological Explanation? (PDF)

March 24th, 2010

Presenter: Erik Myin
Title: The Extent Of Memory. From Extended To Extensive Memory

February 17th, 2010

Presenter: Stuart Ritchie
Title: Gregory Hickok's recent paper 'Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans'.

February 3rd, 2010

Presenter: Sam Wilkinson
Title: Keith Frankish on delusions
Paper: Delusions: A two level framework

January 20th, 2010

Q & A: Eric Schwitzgebel on his: The Unreliability of Naive Introspection.

December 2nd, 2009

Presenter: Dominic Johnson
Title: Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation.

November 18th, 2009

Presenter: Andy Clark
Paper: Do we have independent visual streams for perception and action?

November 4th, 2009

Presenter: Andreas Paraskevides
Title: Jennan Ismael on self regulation
Paper: Saving the Baby: Dennett on Autobiography, Agency and the Self (at PhilPapers)

October 23rd, 2009

Presenter: Jason Major
Title: The Philosophy of Latent Variables
Paper: http://borsboomdenny.googlepages.com/BorsboomLatentvars2003.pdf

October 7th, 2009

Tim Bates led a discussion on Steve Jones' recent public lecture: Has human evolution stopped?
If you did not see the Steve Jones lecture you might like to read these articles:

September 23rd, 2009

Liz Irvine presented:
Consciousness: The radical plasticity thesis (pdf)
Cleeremans, A (forthcoming)

May 27th, 2009

Massimiliano Cappuccio
Mirror neurons and skilful coping: motor intentionality between sensorimotor and ideo-motor schemata in goal-directed actions (doc)

May 18th, 2009

Tim Bates
Beauty in the built-world and the mind: de gustibus non est disputandum?

March 13th, 2009

Markus Guhe presented the Behavioural and Brain Sciences paper:
'Numerical Representation in the Parietal Lobes: Abstract or not Abstract'? (pdf)
by Cohen Kadosh and Walsh

March 4th, 2009

Robert Kyle talk about:
The biological basis of cognitive control: in the endocrine, immune, or central nervous system? (pdf)
Optional background reading:
The Biological Notion of Self and Non-self
Modulating the modulators: parasites, neuromodulators and host behavioral change, Adamo (2002), Brain, Behaviour and Evolution. (pdf)

February 18th, 2009

Spatial coordinates and phenomenology in the two-visual systems model (pdf)
by Pierre Jacob and Frederique de Vignemont

February 4th, 2009

Gary Lewis (Psychology) our new face on the PPIG team introduced
The new synthesis in moral psychology (pdf)
by Jonathan Haidt
Another more detailed article by Haidt (pdf)

January 21st, 2009

Thomas Bak on:
The slow death of the language module - a neurologist's obituary

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November 19th, 2008

Jerry Fodor
Revenge of the given (pdf)

November 5th, 2008

Csibra & Gergeley
Obsessed with goals: functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of action in humans. (pdf)

October 22nd 2008

Richard Shilcock
The nature of foveal representation (pdf)
by Michal Lavidor and Vincent Walsh

March 12th 2008

Levels of description and explanation in cognitive science (pdf)
by William Bechtel
Supplementary reading:
Understanding the mind of a worm: hierarchical network structure underlying nervous system function in C. elegans (pdf)
by Nivedita Chatterjee et al.

February 27th 2008

Biology and Linguistics (doc)
presented by the author Ray Jennings

October 3rd 2007

The Shared Circuits Model: How Control, Mirroring and Simulation Can Enable Imitation, Deliberation, and Mindreading (pdf)
by Professor Susan Hurley
These papers were recommended by various people to read together with the above paper:

Connecting mirror neurons and forward models by R.C. Miall (pdf)
Intentional Relations and social understanding by Barresi and Moore

June 20th 2007

Action and Self-Location in Perception (pdf)
Susanna Schellenberg

November 15th 2006

The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition (pdf)
by Yu, C., Ballard, D., and Aslin, R.
Cognitive Science 29(6): 961-1005 (2005)

November 1st 2006

False categories in cognition: the Not-The-Liver fallacy
Felice L. Bedford
Two papers:
False categories in cognition: the Not-The-Liver fallacy Cognition 64:3, pp.231-48. (1997) (pdf)
More on the Not-The-Liver Fallacy: Medical, Neuropsychological and Perceptual Dissociations Cortex, 39:1, pp.170-3 (2003) (pdf)

October 18th 2006

On Being Simple Minded
Peter Carruthers

October 6th 2006

Speaker: Chris Sinha
Epigenetics, Semiotics, and the Mysteries of the Organism
Two papers:
Epigenetics, Semiotics, and the Mysteries of the Organism Biological Theory, 1.2, In Press (2006) (pdf)
Blending out of the background: Play, props, and the stageing of the material world Journal of Pragmatics, 37 2005 (pdf)

June 7th 2006

Perception and Action Planning (pdf)
W. Prinz
European Journal of Cognitive Pscychology 1998

May 24th 2006

The emergence of the self and other in perception and action: An event-controlled approach (pdf)
J. Scott Jordan
Consciousness and Cognition (12) 2003

April 26th 2006

Beyond Behaviourism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes (pdf)
Bargh and Ferguson
Pscyhological Bulletin 2000

April 5th 2006

Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information
Luciano Floridi
Metaphilosophy 2004 35 (4)

March 15th 2006

Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will
D.M. Wegner and T. Wheatley
American Psychologist (1999)

February 15th 2006

How to Do Things with (and without) Representations
Mike Wheeler
To appear in R. Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind

February 1st 2006

Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition
Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H)
In Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(5), 2005

January 18th 2006

The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure
Jim Hurford
In Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6), 2003
HTML Version (with peer commentaries and response)

December 14th 2005

Cognitive architecture of a minibrain: the honeybee
R. Menzel and M. Giurfa
In Trends Cognit Sci (2001) 5: 62-71

November 16th 2005

Speaker : Achille Varzi (Columbia)
The Argument from Vagueness to Perdurantism

November 2nd 2005

Material Representations: From the Genetic Code to the Evolution of Cellular Automata
Luis Rocha and Wim Hordijk
Artificial Life 11: 189-214. 2005.

October 19th 2005

A complex-systems perspective on the "computation vs. dynamics'' debate in cognitive science.
Melanie Mitchell
In M. A. Gernsbacher and S. J. Derry (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society---Cogsci98, 710-715.
Dave Hawkey's Reply, giving a "Non-Representational Interpretation"

October 5th 2005

Rehabilitating Representationalism
Brian Cantwell Smith
Draft (not for citation). For citing and further exploration of this topic, read Brian Smith's book On the Origin of Objects.

September 21st 2005

Perceiving Intentions
Joelle Proust
In: Agency and Self Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology. Johannes Roessler and Naomi Eilan (eds), Oxford University Press 2003

September 7th 2005

Humans, Machines, and the Structure of Knowledge
Harry Collins
In: SEHR, volume 4, issue 2: Constructions of the Mind

June 15th 2005

Misrepresentation
Fred Dretske
In: R. Bogdan, ed. Belief: Form, Content, and Function. New York: Oxford University Press

May 18th 2005

Functionalism at Forty: A Critical Retrospective
Paul Churchland
Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy

February 8th 2005

A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness (pdf)
O'Regan, J.K. and Noe, A.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2001) 24(5)
HTML Version (final edition)

February 22nd 2005

A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of the acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.
Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T.
Psychological Review (1997), 104, 211-240.

March 9th 2005

Representations and Cognitive Explanations: Assessing the Dynamicist's Challenge in Cognitive Science
William Bechtel
Cognitive Science, 22, 295-318

March 23rd 2005

Analog and Analog
Haugeland, J.
In J. Biro and R. Shahan (eds), Mind, Brain and Function.New York, The Harvester Press, 1981.

April 6th 2005

In defence of some 'Cartesian' assumptions concerning the brain and its operation. (pdf)
Grush, Rick.
Biology and Philosophy (2003) 18:53-93

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