Contact:j.t.m.miller@durham.ac.uk. \;
\nHistorically\, issues concerning concept acquisition have focused around \;the nativism/empiricism debate. The central concern was to give an account \;of how new concepts are formed\, and what influence the external world has \;on such processes (if any). More recently however\, a trend in the \;literature has focused on the way that the nature of concepts might change \;throughout development. Questions emerge as to how the cognitive abilities \;in animals and human infant cognition relate to the later developing \;complex conceptual capacities of adults.
This workshop looks to assess the recent literature on these questions \;with particular focus on the role of language acquisition in the \;developmental process. We look to investigate these issues with an \;interdisciplinary approach\, utilising research in linguistics\, psychology\, \;philosophy of mind\, philosophy of science\, comparative cognition\, and \;other related fields.
Monday 27th May
12.30-1.15-Registration
1.15-2.45- Wolfram Hinzen (Barcelona/Durham)
2.50-3.30- Anna Ciaunica (Fribourg/ Institute of Cognitive Sciences\, Lyon)
3.45-4.25- James Miller (Durham)
4.40-6.15- Susan Carey (Harvard)
Tuesday 28th May
10.00-11.30- Maggie McGonigle (Edinburgh)
11.45-12.25- Denis Buehler (California)
12.30-1.10- Richard Stoeckle-schobel (Edinburgh)
1.10-1.30- Discussion
1.30-Lunch and End