Questions of "Cognitive Ontology": The Impact of Neuroscience on Psychological Categories

Abstract: What impact might neuroscience—and neuroimaging in particular—have on the categories that should be employed in psychological theorizing? Can neuroscience indicate that certain kinds of concepts should be eliminated from psychological theorizing? Might neuroscience provide us with the means to construct novel psychological categories? Is this a new route to eliminativism about folk psychological categories? The aim of this workshop is to address these and other questions that lie at the interface between neuroscience, psychology, and the philosophy of mind.

Registration now open: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/philosophy/events/cognitiveontology/

Lunch and morning and afternoon refreshments are provided as part of the cost of registration.  

Location: International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Chorlton Mill, 8 Cambridge St, M15BY, Manchester

Schedule: Saturday, June 22

11:00-11:15 Welcome (coffee will be available)

11:15-12:30 Michael Anderson (Franklin & Marshall): Toward a Dispositional Neuroscience 

12:30-1:30 Lunch (to be provided)

1:30-2:45 Rick Cooper (Birkbeck): TBA

2:25-3:00 Short Break

3:00-4:15 Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa): Cognitive Ontology and the Metaphorical Development of Theories

4:15-4:45 Break

4:45-6:00 Tim Shallice (Trieste International School of Advanced Studies & UCL): TBA

Drinks and Workshop Dinner

Schedule: Sunday, June 23

10:30-11:45 Russell Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin): The Cognitive Atlas Project

11:45-12:30 General Discussion and Wrap-up Session

12:30-1:00 Lunch (to be provided)