| 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” |
| 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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