Conference announcement forwarded from Peter Carruthers, Sheffield

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 18:33:51 GMT From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith <annette(a)cdu.ucl.ac.uk> Sender: Annette Karmiloff-Smith <annette(a)cdu.ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: Annette Karmiloff-Smith <annette(a)cdu.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Conference announcement forwarded from Peter Carruthers, Sheffield To: dev-europe(a)durham.ac.uk Message-ID: <v01530504ace3aa3881bd(a)[128.40.36.20]> Announcing an interdisciplinary conference on LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT on the place of natural language in human cognition. To be held at the University of Sheffield, from 2 pm Wednesday 26 June 1996 to 2 pm Saturday 29 June 1996. Sponsored by the HANG SENG CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE STUDIES, University of Sheffield. Participants will include: Jill Boucher (Speech Science, Sheffield), Peter Carruthers (Philosophy, Sheffield), Andy Clark (Philosophy, St Louis), Daniel Dennett (Philosophy, Tufts), Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology, Chicago), Juan Carlos Gomez (Psychology, St Andrews), Stevan Harnad (Psychology, Southampton), Peter Hobson (Tavistock Centre, London), Christopher Hookway (Philosophy, Sheffield), Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Psychology, UCL), Stephen Laurence (Philosophy, Manchester), Mick Perkins (Speech Science, Sheffield), Josef Perner (Psychology, Salzburg), Kim Plunkett (Psychology, Oxford), Gabriel Segal (Philosophy, KCL), Barry Smith (Philosophy, Birkbeck), Neil Smith (Linguistics, UCL), Daniel Sperber (CREA, Paris), Ianthi- Maria Tsimpli (Linguistics, Cambridge), Rosemary Varley (Speech Science, Sheffield), Yorick Wilks (Computer Science, Sheffield), Deirdre Wilson (Linguistics, UCL). There will be opportunities for poster presentations, but all paper-giving slots are now filled. A full programme will be available in May 1996. To be placed on the mailing list write to: Professor Peter Carruthers, Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. Or e-mail: p.carruthers(a)sheffield.ac.uk Professor Peter Carruthers Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK tel.: (+44) (0)114 282 4876 fax.: (+44) (0)114 279 8760