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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON EPISTEMOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
APRIL 21 & 22, 1995
The goal of the conference is to bring philosophers,
psychologists and anthropologists together to explore the
implications of research in evolutionary psychology for
traditional epistemological issues including the nature of
rationality and the structure of human knowledge.
All conference sessions will be held in the New Brunswick
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 2 Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
(PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION.) The Hyatt is a short
walk from the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University.
There is ample parking available.
All conference sessions are open to the public. There is no
registration fee. The conference is sponsored by the Office
of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the
Department of Philosophy and the Rutgers University Center
for Cognitive Science. For further information, contact:
Stephen Stich (stich(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu), or
Chris Knapp (cknapp(a)zodiac.rutgers.edu).
PROGRAM
Friday, April 21
9:00 - 9:15 Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:30 ELDAR SHAFIR (Psychology, Princeton)
"On the Evolution of Cognition and
Rationality"
10:35 - 11:50 DENISE CUMMINS (Psychology, Arizona)
"Are Pragmatic Reasoning Schemas Innate?
Some Evidence"
11:50 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:15 - 2:30 JOHN TOOBY (Anthropology, UCSB)
"Beyond Truth and Reference:
Evolutionary Psychology and Ecological
Rationality"
2:35 - 3:50 GERD GIGERENZER (Psychology, Chicago)
"Can Reasoning be Rational AND
Psychological? Models of Bounded
Rationality"
4:00 - 5:15 DANIEL KAHNEMAN (Psychology, Princeton)
"Judgment, Choice and Experience"
5:15 - 7:30 DINNER
7:30 - 8:45 ROBERT TRIVERS (Anthropology, Rutgers)
"Deceit, Self-Deception and Internal
Conflict"
Saturday, April 22
9:00 - 10:15 DAN SPERBER (Anthropology, CREA)
"Metarepresentations in Biological and
Cultural Evolution"
10:25 - 11:40 DAVID PAPINEAU (Philosophy, London)
"Epistemology and the Limits of
Evolution"
11:40 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:15 RICHARD NISBETT (Psychology, Michigan)
"Which Inferential Rules Are Easy to
Change, and Which Are Hard?"
2:25 - 3:40 RICHARD FELDMAN (Philosophy, Rochester)
"Three Grades of Psychological
Involvement in Epistemology"
3:45 - 5:00 ELLIOTT SOBER (Philosophy, Wisconsin)
"The Evolution of Psychological
Altruism"
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