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“Kinds of Cognition” – a graduate conference to be held online on Saturday February 22, 2025 – will bring together researchers working on the topic of cognition from diverse perspectives. Our aim is to foster cross-disciplinary discussions on various types or kinds of cognition, cognitive processes, and mechanisms, that have intrigued philosophers, cognitive scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, and developmental, comparative, and evolutionary psychologists, among others.
Schedule
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Introduction
09:10 - 10:15 Keynote: Elisabeth Pacherie (institut Jean Nicod; Institute for the Study of Cognition at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
“Motoric Representational Format”
10:20 - 10:50 James D. Grayot (University of Porto)
“Representation hunger: Reformulating the ‘problem-domain’ of truly complex cognition”
10:55 - 11:25 Iwan Williams (Monash University)
” Proto-asserters?: The case of chatbot speech meets the case of toddler speech “
11:30 - 12:05 Frederik T. Junker (University of Copenhagen)
“From Daydreams to Decisions”
12:10 - 12:40 Georgina Brighouse (University of Liverpool)
“Rethinking aphantasia: A genuine lack of capacity but not a disorder or disability
12:40 - 1:20 Lunch
1:20 - 1:50 Mica Rapstine (University of Michigan)
“Moral Epiphany and Insight in Problem Solving”
1:55 - 2:25 Joachim Nicolodi (University of Cambridge)
“Consciousness in the Creative Process and the Problem for AI”
2:30 - 3:00 Mona Fazeli (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Does Metareasoning Contribute to Epistemic Rationality?”
3:05 - 3:35 Juan Murillo Vargas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?”
3:40 - 4:35 Keynote: Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)
“Large Language Models as models of human reasoning”
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