Conference Schedule

Sunday, December 11, 2011
14:30 Registration, The Gilbert de Botton Auditorium, Mishkenot Sha’ananim
Hotel Guests may check into rooms from this time
16:30-17:00

Welcoming Remarks

Yoram Hazony, Provost and conference co-organizer, The Shalem Center

Jesse Prinz, conference co-organizer, CUNY Graduate Center

Meirav Jones, Associate Provost, The Shalem Center

17:00-19:00

Session I

Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center), “Beyond Reference: How Minds Make Categories”

Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University), “The Brain as a Model of the World”

Chair: Michael Antony (University of Haifa)

19:00 Reception
20:00

Public Lecture at the Jerusalem Theatre

Steven Pinker on “The Better Nature of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined”

Welcoming Remarks and Chair: Yoram Hazony

To register for this event: www.shalemevents.org/pinker

Monday, December 12, 2011
9:00-11:00

Session II

Konrad Werner (Jagiellonian University), “Aspectual Shape of Knowledge or Aspectual Shape of the World?”

Robert Pepperell  (Cardiff School of Art), “Art, Visual Perception, and Ontology”

Chair: Hannah Hashkes (The Shalem Center)

11:00 Break
11:15-13:15

Session III

 Marius Usher (Tel Aviv University), “Convergence/Divergence Dynamics Grounds Guidance Control, Agent-Autonomy and Responsibility”

Josh Weinstein (The Shalem Center), “How To Succeed: A Platonic Account of Temporally-Extended Agency”

Chair: Alon Chasid (Bar-Ilan University)

13:15 Lunch
14:45-16:45

Session IV

David Chalmers (ANU/NYU), “Constructing the World”

Amie Thomasson (University of Miami), “Norms and Necessity”

Chair: Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)

17:00 Optional Guided Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem
(Advance registration necessary)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
9:00-11:00

Session V

Raoul Gervais and Merel Lefevere (Ghent University), “Reduction and Emergence as Features of Cognition: Unification and the Extended Mind Hypothesis”

Daniel Kaplan and Bennett Helm (Franklin & Marshall College), “Objectivity, Rule Following, and Joint Commitment”

Chair: Assaf Weksler (The Open University)

11:00 Break
11:15-13:15

Session VI

Yoram Hazony, (The Shalem Center), “Domain-General Operations in the Mind’s ‘Central Processing System’? A Test-Case for Psycho-Ontology”

Riccardo Manzotti (IULM University), “Does Situated Consciousness Reveal Something Important About the Structure of the Physical World?”

Chair: Orli Dahan (University of Haifa)

13:15 Lunch
14:45-16:45

Session VII

Kranti Saran (Harvard University), “Bodily Sensation Objects”

Benjamin Young (City University of New York), “The Phenomenal Element”

Chair: Ira Bedzow (Emory University)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
9:00-11:00

Session VIII

Hillary Putnam and Hilla Jacobson (Ben-Gurion University), “Perception and Conception”

Axel Seemann (Bentley University), “Perceptual Experience and the Study of What There Is”

Chair: Hagit Benbaji (Ben-Gurion University)

11:00 Break
11:15-12:15

Session IX

Susanna Siegel (Harvard University), “The Epistemological Significance of Anti-Modularism”

Chair: Boaz Miller (University of Haifa)

12:15 Lunch
13:45-15:45

Session X

Nick Zangwill (Durham University), “Mind, Essence, Categories, and Descartes”

Alfred Tauber (Boston University), “Seeking Psycho-Ontology beyond Freud’s Philosophical Impasse”

Chair:  Alexandra Zinck (Hebrew University)

15:45 Break
16:00-18:00

Session XI

Steven Pinker (Harvard University), “Language as a Window into Conceptual Structure”

Lera Boroditsky  (Stanford University), “Beyond the Physics: How Languages Help us Construe and Construct”

Chair: Michael Fagenblat (The Shalem Center)

19:00 Dinner for Speakers and Session Chairs
Thursday, December 15, 2011
9:00-11:00

Session XII

Steven Horst (Wesleyan University), “Intuitive Ontologies, Critical Metaphysics, and Cognitive Pluralism”

Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University), “Ontological Behavior in Infants (and Adults)”

Chair: Yakir Levin (Ben-Gurion University)

11:00 Break
11:15-13:15

Session XIII

Shimon Peretz and Gil Diesendruck (Bar-Ilan University), “Lockean children: Ontological differences in the susceptibility to category revision”

Angela Matthies (Oxford, Stuttgart), “Learning Numbers - How psychologically informed studies on number acquisition may also have something in store for the ontologist interested in the existence”

Chair: Yaron Senderowicz (Tel Aviv University)

13:15 Lunch
14:45-16:45

Session XIV

Aviv Keren (Hebrew University), “Psycho-Mathematical-Ontology”

Peter Lewis (University of Miami), “Quantum Onto-Psychology”

Chair: Erez Firt (Tel Aviv University)

Friday, December 16, 2011

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