We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for \;papers to be presented at a workshop aimed at bringing together \;research from across discipline boundaries.
\nAbstracts for submission for either workshop should be no more than 750 \;words (exc. Bibliography)\, prepared for blind review. Please include a \;separate cover page including name\, address\, contact information\, current \;institution\, publications\, and current position. Abstracts should be \;suited for a presentation of no longer than 25 minutes. Abstracts should \;be submitted in Microsoft Word\, PDF or similar. Please e-mail submissions \;to \;j.t.m.miller@durham.ac.uk. We hope to have at least three slots per \;workshop for graduate speakers.
Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.
Applicants will be notified of whether their papers have been accepted or \;not by the end of March.
Some funding for graduate speakers to help cover travel and accommodation \;costs may be available (with thanks to the Analysis Trust). All accepted \;speakers will be considered for funding.
Speakers: Susan Carey (Harvard)\, Maggie McGonigle (Edinburgh)\, Wolfram \;Hinzen (Durham)
Historically\, 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.