Dear All,
Please join us on Feb 22 at ECOM's sixth graduate conference, Kinds of Cognition. You may find the information about the conference, schedule, and the registration link below.
Kinds of Cognition Graduate Conference
Feb 22, 2025 (Virtual)
“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.
Registration form: https://events.uconn.edu/ecom/event/490615-kinds-of-cognition-graduate-conference
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Elisabeth Pacherie (institut Jean Nicod; Institute for the Study of Cognition at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris):
Prof. Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)
Conference Schedule (in EST)
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"
Best,
Utku Sonsayar
PhD Candidate (University of Connecticut)Research Group Manager (Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning)Philosophy Graduate Student Association President (University of Connecticut)
For more information, contact: Utku Sonyaser at utku.sonsayar@uconn.edu