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1 message: 1. Euro-SPP '95 1.-------------------------------------------------------- From: Martin Davies <martin.davies(a)psy.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Euro-SPP '95 ************************************************************ EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE St. Catherine's College Oxford OX1 3UJ 30 August - 1 September 1995 ************************************************************ This conference is supported by the McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and by the Mind Association. ************************************************************ The Fourth Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held at St. Catherine's College Oxford, from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September 1995. The programme includes: *Invited Lectures* by Michael Posner, Wolfgang Kunne, Jacques Mehler and Alan Cowey; *Invited Symposia* on Attention and Space, Emotion and Irrationality, Foundations of Artificial Life, and Brain Imaging; plus Submitted Papers and Posters. The conference desk will open at 9.00 am on Wednesday 30 August. Coffee will be available from 11.00 am and the first session will commence at 11.30 am. The final session of the conference will end at about 4.30 pm on Friday 1 September. There will be a Conference Dinner on the Friday evening at a cost of approximately 20 pounds per head. ************************************************************ **REGISTER NOW PAY LATER!** The Euro-SPP and St. Catherine's College would welcome an early indication of your intention to attend this conference. Please register now. We will invoice you later. If you pay your Euro-SPP Membership Fees and return your completed Conference Registration Form by *Friday 16 June* then a special Conference Registration Fee of 30 pounds will apply. After that date, the Conference Registration Fee will be 35 pounds for Euro-SPP members. The Conference Registration Fee for non-members of the Euro-SPP is 55 pounds. The basic accommodation and meals package, from mid-morning on Wednesday 30 August until late afternoon on Friday 1 September, costs 108 pounds. Bed and breakfast accommodation is also available for the nights of Tuesday 29 August, Friday 1 September, and Saturday 2 September, at an additional cost of 28 pounds per night. Accommodation is in single study-bedrooms. A limited number of bedrooms with en suite bathroom may also be available at a supplement of 12 pounds per night. For those who do not require accommodation, the basic meals package (excluding breakfast), from mid-morning on Wednesday 30 August until late afternoon on Friday 1 September, costs 60 pounds. ************************************************************ **DISCOUNTS FOR STUDENTS** The Conference Registration Fee for students is 10 pounds for Euro-SPP members or 20 pounds for non-members. The McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Mind Association have provided a number of bursaries to assist students with the costs of accommodation and meals at Euro-SPP '95. These will be awarded to students in order of receipt of applications, until the resources are used up. A McDonnell-Pew Bursary or Mind Association Bursary offers a discount of 40 pounds on the accommodation and meals package or a discount of 20 pounds on the meals only package. In order to apply for a bursary, you must include with your Conference Registration Form a letter from your supervisor confirming that the conference is relevant to your studies. ************************************************************ This announcement is also available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ronaldl/espp.html ************************************************************ For information about the conference, please contact: Euro-SPP '95, Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, England. Email: espp95(a)psy.ox.ac.uk Fax: +44 1865 310447 ************************************************************ Euro-SPP Membership fees: Dfl. 50,- or Dfl. 35,- for students. Fees must be paid in Dutch currency. Fees may be paid by Mastercard. For membership details, please contact: Mrs. Susan Struycken, Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. Email: espp(a)kub.nl ************************************************************ ************************************************************ PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME ************************************************************ WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST 9.00 am Conference desk opens 11.00 am COFFEE 11.30 am - 12.45 pm INVITED LECTURE 1: The McDonnell-Pew Lecture Imaging the Mechanisms of Consciousness Speaker: Michael Posner (Psychology, Oregon) 1.00 pm LUNCH 2.30 - 4.30 pm SYMPOSIUM 1: Attention and Space Speakers: John Duncan (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge) Pierre Jacob (Philosophy, CNRS, Paris) Albert Newen (Philosophy, Bielefeld) 4.30 - 5.30 pm POSTER SESSION and TEA 5.30 - 7.00 pm SUBMITTED PAPER SESSIONS 1A/1B 1A 5.30 Wendy Clements (Psychology, Sussex) and Josef Perner (Psychology, Salzburg) 6.15 Ted Ruffman (Psychology, Sussex) 1B 5.30 Greg Currie (Philosophy, Flinders University, Adelaide) 6.15 Sonia Sedivy (Philosophy, Toronto) 7.15 pm DINNER followed by INVITED LECTURE 2: The Mind Association Lecture Intentional Content Speaker: Wolfgang Kunne (Philosophy, Hamburg) ************************************************************ THURSDAY 31 AUGUST 9.00 - 11.00 am SYMPOSIUM 2: Emotion and Irrationality Speakers: Nico Frijda (Psychology, Amsterdam) James Hopkins (Philosophy, King's College, London) 11.00 am COFFEE 11.30 am - 12.45 pm INVITED LECTURE 3: Towards a Biology of Language Speaker: Jacques Mehler (Cognitive Science, EHESS, Paris) 1.00 pm LUNCH 2.15 - 4.30 pm SUBMITTED PAPER SESSIONS 2A/2B/2C 2A 2.15 Georges Rey (Philosophy, Maryland) 3.00 Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke University, North Carolina) 3.45 Ullin Place (Thirsk, North Yorkshire) 2B 2.15 J.G. Taylor (Mathematics, King's College, London) 3.00 Laurie Stowe (Language and Literature, Groningen) 3.45 Susan Dwyer (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal) 2C 2.15 Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Oxford) 3.00 Michel Treisman (Psychology, Oxford) 3.45 Karen Neander (Philosophy, Australian National University) 4.30 - 5.00 pm TEA 5.00 - 7.00 pm SYMPOSIUM 3: Foundations of Artificial Life Speakers: Christopher Langton (Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico) Luc Steels (AI Laboratory, Free University of Brussels) Michael Wheeler (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex) 7.00 pm BUSINESS MEETING followed by RECEPTION and DINNER ************************************************************ FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 9.00 - 11.15 am SUBMITTED PAPER SESSIONS 3A/3B/3C 3A 9.00 Paul Pietroski (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal) 9.45 Kirk Ludwig (Philosophy, Florida) 10.30 Antoni Gomila (Philosophy, University of the Balearic Islands) 3B 9.00 Beatrice de Gelder, Jean Vroomen and Jan Pieter Teunisse (Psychology, Tilburg) 9.45 Philip Benson (Physiology, Oxford) and Mary Katsikitis (Psychiatry, Adelaide) 10.30 Anthony Skillen (Philosophy, Kent) 3C 9.00 Andy Young (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge) and Tony Stone (King Alfred's College, Winchester) 9.45 Richard Held (Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT) 10.30 Lawrence Weiskrantz (Psychology, Oxford), John Barbur and Arash Sahraie (Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, London) 11.15 am COFFEE 11.45 am - 1.00 pm INVITED LECTURE 4: Localisation of Functions in the Cerebral Cortex: Modern Phrenology? Speaker: Alan Cowey (Psychology, Oxford) 1.00 pm LUNCH 2.15 - 4.30 pm SYMPOSIUM 4: Brain Imaging (A McDonnell-Pew Symposium in Cognitive Neuroscience) Speakers: Dick Passingham (Psychology, Oxford) Chris Frith (MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital) David Rosenthal (Philosophy, City University of New York) 4.30 pm TEA There will be a CONFERENCE DINNER on Friday evening ************************************************************ POSTER PRESENTATIONS by Matthew Elton (Philosophy, Stirling); Brian Keeley (Philosophy, University of California, San Diego); Jonathan Knowles (Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London); Ronald Lemmen (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex); Kenneth Livingston (Psychology and Cognitive Science, Vassar College, New York); Ajit Narayan and Jeremy Olsen (Computer and Cognitive Sciences, Exeter); Greg Ray (Philosophy, Florida); Antti Revonsuo (Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku); Carolien Rieffe (Psychology, Free University, Amsterdam); Tadeusz Szubka (Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin); Yoshio Yano (Psychology, Kyoto University of Education) ************************************************************ ************************************************************ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM ************************************************************ Please complete and sign this form and send it, as soon as possible, to: Euro-SPP '95, Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, England. Name: ______________________________________________________ Professional affiliation: __________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________ Fax: _____________________________________________________ Conference Registration Fees: 35 pounds (or 30 pounds before 16 June) for non-student members 55 pounds for non-student non-members 10 pounds for student members 20 pounds for student non-members I expect to attend the Euro-SPP '95 Conference in Oxford. I have indicated my requirements by ticking below. Please send me an invoice in due course. I shall keep you informed of any changes in my plans. Signed: _____________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________________________________ ** I shall require the basic meals only package at 60 pounds. (Please note any special dietary requirements.) ** I shall require the basic meals and accommodation package at 108 pounds.(Please note any special dietary requirements.) ** I shall require a room for the night of Tuesday 29 August at 28 pounds. ** I shall require a room for the night of Friday 1 September at 28 pounds. ** I shall require a room for the night of Saturday 2 September at 28 pounds. ** I request a room with en suite bathroom at an additional cost of 12 pounds per night (subject to availability). ** I expect to attend the Conference Dinner on Friday 1 September at a cost of 20 pounds. ** Please send me information about hotel accommodation in Oxford. ** I am a student, and I am applying for a *McDonnell-Pew* or *Mind Association* Bursary. I enclose a letter from my supervisor.