Archives

Archives of the E-Intentionality mailing list are available (for members only). To subscribe to the mailing list, please visit the mailing list home page or contact the seminar organiser. 2007 SCHEDULE
21 Jun: Simon Bowes: The View From Everywhere: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? 14 Jun: Alexandros Zographakis: The Work of Art as a Cognitive Trail 07 Jun: Masters Students: MA Presentations 31 May: Tom Beament: Two Conceptions of Consciousness 24 May: Pasha Parpia: Certain Anomalies in Memory Theory 17 May: Joel Parthemore: In Search Of... The Concept CONCEPT 10 May: Mike Beaton: Who's Representing What to Whom? (aka Inman Was Right) 03 May: Maggie Boden: The Personal Signature in Art 26 Apr: Ron Chrisley: Varieties of Depiction for Synthetic Phenomenology 19 Apr: Robert Clowes: Transparency and Agency in Inner Speech 15 Mar: Steve Torrance: Body-Mind/Fact-Value: How Do the Two Problems Interrelate?	08 Mar: Alex Zographakis: Art, Perception and the Possibilities of Body 01 Mar: Duncan Kuhns: Edward's Dictum and the Supervenience Argument 22 Feb: Blay Whitby: Transhumanism - Do We Want to Go All the Way to Ongar? 15 Feb: Simon Bowes: On Planet Pluto: How Scientists Decide the Extension of Natural Kind Terms 08 Feb: Rob Clowes: The Complex Vehicles of Human Thought 1 Feb: Henry Reid: On Free Will 30 Jan: Marek McGann: Is There a Social Modality of Perception? 25 Jan: Tony Morse: On the Role(s) of Synthetic Modelling in Cognitive Science 18 Jan: Ron Chrisley: Epistemic Consistency and Knowledge-Based Systems 11 Jan: Simon McGregor: Are Our Everyday Mentalistic Concepts Too Coarse-Grained for AI?
2006 SCHEDULE
07 Dec: Alexandros Zographakis: An Ecological Approach to Aesthetics 30 Nov: Dustin Stokes and Jon Bird: Evolving Fractal Drawings 23 Nov: Joel Parthemore: Conceptual Building Blocks 16 Nov: Harold Cohen: AARON, Colorist: From Expert System to Expert 09 Nov: Steve Torrance: The Ethical Status of Artificial Agents 02 Nov: Blay Whitby: Ethical Issues in Human-Robot Interaction 26 Oct: Paul Loader: The Extended Mind: A Ghost Story 19 Oct: Simon Bowes: Natural Kinds 12 Oct: Mike Beaton: The Boundaries of the Conceptual 05 Oct: Ron Chrisley: Synthetic Phenomenology 20 Jul: Blay Whitby: Do Robots Need Emotions? 06 Jul: Joel Parthemore: Resemblance Redux 29 Jun: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: Babies Do Not Play Dice, Either 22 Jun: Paul Loader: Marxian Themes in Cognitive Science 08 Jun: MA Students: MA Presentations 01 Jun: Ron Chrisley: It's a Surprise!	25 May: Dustin Stokes: Knowing Computer Creativity 18 May: Duncan Kuhns: Biological Intentionality and Mental Causation 11 May: Tom Froese: The Role of Science in Wheeler's "Reconstructing the Cognitive World" 04 May: Joel Parthemore: The Limitations of Bivalence 27 Apr: Ron Chrisley: In Defense of Transparent Computationalism 20 Apr: Mike Beaton: Edenic Information 16 Mar: Mog Stapleton: Defending Damasio 09 Mar: Tom Froese: Hume on Life and Mind 02 Mar: Joel Parthemore: On the Nature of Levels and Meta-Levels 16 Feb: Simon Bowes: A Determined Mind (and a Beautiful Embodiment) 09 Feb: Chris Davia: A Short Talk on Time 09 Feb: Ron Chrisley: Counterfactual Computational Vehicles of Consciousness postponed 02 Feb: Mike Beaton: On Non-Conceptual Content 26 Jan: Duncan Kuhns: Systems, Extended Organisms and Intentionality 19 Jan: Marek McGann: Getting Our Act Together: On the Possibility of a Coherent Enactivism 12 Jan: Tony Morse: On Intelligence
2005 SCHEDULE
08 Dec: Mog Stapleton: Feeling Emotions 01 Dec: Chris Davia: How Long is a Piece of Time? 24 Nov: Joel Parthemore: Reassessing Informational Atomism: Reflections on Jerry Fodor 17 Nov: Ron Chrisley: The Diagonal Argument Does Not Prove that Human Mathematicians are Non-Algorithmic 10 Nov: Paul Loader: Telepathy and Cognitive Science 03 Nov: Anthony Morse: Learning Beyond Design 27 Oct: Hanne De Jaegher: On Embodiment 20 Oct: Rob Clowes and John Sung: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Embodiment, But Were Afraid to Ask! 13 Oct: Mike Beaton: Gareth Evans on Self-Identification 16 Jun: Simon Bowes: Kindhood in Cognitive Science: Property Pluralism and Non-reductive Physicalism 26 May: Marieke Rohde: Sweet Indifference: Some Thoughts on Value in Natural and Artificial Intelligence	05 May: Paul Loader: Other Minds, Mirror Neurons and a Criterion for 'The Same' 28 Apr: Tony Morse: Thinking Machines: The Theory Behind EDA 17 Mar: Chris Davia: The Candle and the Flame 03 Mar: Duncan Kuhns: The Organism in Time 24 Feb: Mike Beaton: A Hierarchical Processing Account of Conscious Experience 17 Feb: Hanne De Jaegher: Timely Interaction: Interactional Timing is a Key Aspect of Social Understanding 10 Feb: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: What's the Monty Hall Dilemma Got to Do with Causality? 03 Feb: Marek McGann: Following Goals to the Enactive Perspective 20 Jan: Tony Morse: Non-Representation, Not the Frame Problem 13 Jan: Ron Chrisley: Next Generation approaches to Machine Consciousness
2004 SCHEDULE
09 Dec: Paul Loader: Are Dreams Experiences? 02 Dec: Jessica Hall: Sex Differences in Empathy 25 Nov: Mike Beaton: Are There Subjective Facts? 18 Nov: Steve Torrence: A Normative Cognitive Science? 11 Nov: Marek McGann: In a World of Our Own 28 Oct: Duncan Khuns: Evaluating Autopoiesis 21 Oct: Anthony Morse: Why Do We Have an Internal World? 14 Oct: Simon McGregor: Emergent Intelligence 24 Jun: MA Students: Thesis Talks 10 Jun: Steve Torrence and Mike Beaton: Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness? 3 Jun: Rob Clowes: Building Vehicles for Thinking 27 May: Marek McGann: Autopoiesis vs. Aptopoiesish: Perspectives and Boundaries in the Evolution of Mind 20 May: Ron Chrisley: Rejecting Bivalence 13 May: Hanne De Jaegher: The Rhythm of Social Interaction	06 May: Tony Morse: Enactive Distributed Associationism: Psychological ALife 22 Apr: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: Does Direction of Time Tell Us Anything About the Difference Between Correlation and Causation? 04 Mar: Paul Loader: The Argument from Illusion and The Grand Illusion: Comparing Austin and Noë 26 Feb: Ron Chrisley: A Problem for Higher-Order Thought Theories of Consciousness 19 Feb: Marek McGann: Information, Cognition, and the Fridge-Light Fallacy (Or: Cognitive Psychology is All in Your Head) 12 Feb: Hanne De Jaegher: Analogies and Differences Between Perceiving that Something is Red and Perceiving that Something is a Social Agent 05 Feb: Tony Morse: Solving Unknown Problems: The Limits of Learning 29 Jan: Mike Beaton: Part II: Towards a New 'Theory Theory Theory' 22 Jan: Mike Beaton: Part I: The Self as Thinly Veiled Confabulation 15 Jan: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: Why Do We Reply with "Because" When We Are Asked Why-Type Questions?: An Inquiry Concerning Analysis of Causal Reasoning
2003 SCHEDULE
04 Dec: Rob Clowes: The Social Construction of Folk Psychology: Propositional Attitudes as Cognitive Technology (Or: Why Fodor Should Learn Not to Disrespect His Aunty) 27 Nov: Steve Torrence: Ethicalized Naturalism Part II: Spinoza and the Relation Between Consciousness and Value 20 Nov: Steve Torrence: Ethicalized Naturalism Part I: Spinoza and the Relation Between Consciousness and Value 13 Nov: Paul Lai: The Homeostatic Means: Philosophical Naturalization of Intentionality Based on the Notion of Homeostatic Maintenance 06 Nov: Marek McGann: Truth or Friction: Me and My (Rather Personal) Relationship with the World 30 Oct: Hanne De Jaegher: Emergent Interpersonal Intentionality: How, When Our Bodies Meet, Our Minds Meet. Unpacking the Mechanism of Inter-subjectivity Further 23 Oct: Ron Chrisley: Artificial Creativity 16 Oct: Anthony Morse: The AutoIAC and Issues in Cognitive Modelling 27 Jun: Short Presentations: Duncan Kuhns and Shane Lindsay 20 Jun: Rob Clowes: What Vygotsky Might Say to Glenberg About Higher Cognitive Functions: Investigations Into the Embodiment of Language 13 Jun: David Rosenthal: Consciousness, Qualities, and Higher-Order Thoughts 06 Jun: Mike Beaton: What RoboDennett Still Doesn't Know 30 May 2003: Steve Torrance: Poincare's Principle and Evaluative Cognitive Science 23 May: Short Presentations: Duncan Kuhns, Paul Loader, and Rowan Lovett	22 May 2003: Mike Wheeler, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Dundee: Is Language the Ultimate Artifact? - Arundel 401 (4 p.m.) 16 May: Shane Lindsay: Abstract Entities, Folk Ontology and Perceptual-Spatial Processes 02 May: Marek McGann: The Mind's-Eye View II: Purpose's Revenge 25 Apr: Anthony Morse: The Frame Problem: The Problem With Solving Unknown Problems 14 Mar: Marek McGann: From the Mind's Eye View 07 Mar: Hanne DeJaegher: Autism and the Origins of Thinking 28 Feb: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: How does Bayesianism Cohere with Causal Reasoning? 21 Feb: Chrisantha Fernando: What Does the Cortex Do?: The Liquid Brain Hypothesis 14 Feb: Mike Beaton: Othello's Jealousy: Neither Damasio nor Brooks? 07 Feb: Giovanna Colombetti: Othello's Jealousy: Neither Primary not Secondary 24 Jan: Anthony Morse: Natural Values, Habits, and Motivation: Can Homeostatic Adaptation Buy You Intentionality? 17 Jan: Mike Beaton: Win-Word or Wall-Word: Looking at Multiple Realisability 10 Jan: Rob Clowes: General Theories of Cognition: Situated Action or Activity Theory
2002 SCHEDULE
13 Dec: Marek McGann: All Kinds of 'E' 06 Dec: Tony Morse: Neural Modelling and Cognition: Associative Minds? 29 Nov: Mike Beaton: The Outline for a Plausible Architecture for Abstract Thought 22 Nov: David Levens: Tactical Communication by Chimpanzees? 08 Nov: Hanne De Jaegher: Some Thinking on Autism and Theory-of-Mind, and Some Beyond 01 Nov: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: Causal Reasoning in AI 25 Oct: Rob Charleston: Why Be a Philosopher of Cognitive Science? 28 Jun: Rob Clowes: Deacon's Symbols 21 Jun: Robert Charleston: Information and the Concept of Coding 14 Jun: Steve Torrance: Ned Block's Even Harder Problem: How Can We Know if Commander Data Has Phenomenality as well as Functionality? 07 Jun: Andy Clark: What Are We Like? 31 May: Marcello Ghin: How We Know Each Other 24 May: Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: Causation? A Pragmatic Solution to the Problem 17 May: Katherine Power: Extended Mind Theory	10 May: Cornelius Jakhelln: Why Will is Neither Self Nor Free: Will, Self and Freedom 03 May: Giovanna Colombetti: Emotion Words and Emotions 26 Apr: Anthony Morse: Can Psychotherapy Inform Cognitive Modelling? 15 Mar: Tony Morse: Some Consequences of Strong Determinism 08 Mar: Steve Torrance: Me and My Twins 01 Mar: Carlos Gershenen: Contextuality: A Philosophical Paradigm 22 Feb: Paul Lai: The Robustness of the Meaning Argument 15 Feb: George Shipp: 3-E Intentionality: Relocating Mental States 08 Feb: Rob Clowes: What We Can Learn From Adaptive Language Games 01 Feb: Marcello Ghin: The Extended Mind: What Happens if the Mind Gets Overstretched? 25 Jan: Discussion on Consciousness 18 Jan: Anthony Morse: The Fundamental Frame Problem and Intuitions for Overcoming It 11 Jan: Hanneke De-Jaegher: Robots And Herrings
2001 SCHEDULE
07 Dec: George Shipp: Cognition: Distributed, Dynamical, Embedded and Embodied 30 Nov: Blay Whitby: AI without Emotion 23 Nov: Giovanna Colombetti: Cognitive Theories of Emotions and the Concept of Appraisal: A Dynamical Revision 16 Nov: Nadja Rosental: Definite Descriptions and Endophora 09 Nov: Paul Lai: Concept Acquisition and The Bodily Deficiencies 02 Nov: Argi Arfani: Meaningful vs. Non-meaningful systems: Where Do We Draw the Line? 26 Oct: Anthony Morse: New Associative Representations: What's Wrong With Hebb? 19 Oct: Robert Charleston: On Ethics of Sentient Technologies 15 Jun: Anthony Morse: On Representations 08 Jun: MA Student Presentations 18 May: Paul Lai: The Bodily Representations And Their Role In Information Semantics	11 May: Ron Chrisley: The Person Halting Problem 27 Apr: Josefa Toribio: Perceptual Experience and its Contents 16 Mar: Giovanna Colombetti: Cognition, Emotion, and Affective Computing 09 Mar: Tudor Jenkins: A Noisy Way to Evolve Signaling Behavior 02 Mar: Andy Clark: Access and Qualia 23 Feb: Paul Lai: Why There are Representational Bodily States 09 Feb: Anthony Morse: From Association to Cognition 02 Feb: Argi Arfani: More on Naturalism and Genuine Error 26 Jan: Kane Oliver: Should Robots Rule? 19 Jan: Phil Jones: Re-identification and the Emergence of Reciprocal Altruism 12 Jan: Ron Chrisley: AI and God
2000 SCHEDULE
15 Dec: Patrick Anselme: The Frame Problem 01 Dec: Giovanna Colombetti: Analysis of Emotions 24 Nov: Ron Chrisley and Anthony Morse: Systematicity in Visual Object Representation 17 Nov: Paul Lai: The Criteria of Selecting Information from Perceptual Experience	10 Nov: Kane Oliver: The Roosevelt Test 03 Nov: Argi Arfani: Naturalising Misrepresentation 27 Oct: Ron Chrisley: Systematicity and Systematicity
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