INVITED SPEAKERS

Lila R. Gleitman

Psychology, Linguistics, and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania

SPP 2008 Presidential Address: Fearful Symmetry: 'Similar' and Similar Concepts

Jerry Fodor

Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

Did the Dodo Lose Its Ecological Niche? Or Was It the Other Way Around?

Zenon Pylyshyn

Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

Tracking the Missing Link: Steps Towards Bridging the Mind-World Gap

Paul Rozin

Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Modern Academic Psychology: Fads and Holes

To Be Announced

SPP 2008 Stanton Prize Winner Address

SPP 2008 William James Prize Winner Address

INVITED SYMPOSIA

Neuroethics:

What can neuroscience do, and what should neuroscience do?

Martha Farah

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Chair, Persons and Things

Anjan Chatterjee

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Cosmetic Neurology

Kenneth R. Foster

Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Brain-Computer Interfaces

Kenneth Norman

Psychology, Princeton University

Brain Reading

Erik Parens

The Hastings Center

Ethics and Neuroethics

Addiction & Responsibility

Jeffrey Poland

History, Philosophy, & Social Science, Rhode Island School of Design

Chair, Multiple Perspectives on Addiction and Responsibility

George Ainslie

Psychiatry, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center

'Free Will' as Recursive Self-Prediction: Does a Deterministic Mechanism Reduce Responsibility?

Louis Charland

Philosophy and Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario

Decisional Capacity as a Framework for Understanding Responsibility in Addiction

Nancy Petry

Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Contingency Management: What Does This Intervention Tell Us About Responsibility in Addictions Treatment

Owen Flanagan

Philosophy and Neurobiology, Duke University

Discussant

George Graham

Philosophy, Wake Forest University

Discussant

Bayesian Rationality:

Philosophical and Psychological Investigations

Fei Xu

Psychology, University of British Columbia

David Danks

Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University

Christopher Meacham

Philosophy, University of Massachusetts

Mike Oaksford

Psychology, Birkbeck College London

Michael Strevens

Philosophy, New York University

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