French Cognitive Science Conference

From: payette(a)uranus.atoci.uqam.ca Subject: French International Cognitive Science Conference ANNOUNCEMENT The Seventh Colloquium of the Jacques Cartier Center Lyon, France. THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES: FROM COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND under the aegis of: the Pole Rhones-Alpes of the Cognitive Sciences, Programme Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Cognisciences,CNRS Universite du Quebec a Montreal Universite de Montreal Universite Joseph Fourier Universite Claude Bernard Scientific committee: Denis Fisette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec) Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon) Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, Quebec) Daniel Payette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec) Vincent Rialle (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble) Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble) Coordination in North America: Daniel Payette and Denis Fisette Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Dpt de Philosophie, Dpt Psychology; C.P. 8888,Succ A, Montreal (Quebec) H3C-3P8, Canada; E.mail : payette(a)uranus.atoci.uqam.ca; tel (+514) 987 8418; Fax: (+514) 9876721 Coordination in Europe: Vincent Rialle Universite J. Fourier, Labo.TIMC-IMAG, Faculte de Medecine, 38706 LaTronche Cedex E.mail: Vincent.Rialle(a)imag.fr; Tel. (+33) 76 63 71 87; Fax. (+33) 76 51 8667 DATES: Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994 CONFERENCE SITE: Amphitheatre CHARLES BERAUDIER. Conseil Regional RHONE-ALPES,78 route de Paris 69751 CHARBONNIERES-les-BAINS. France *Talks will only be given by invited speakers. (Simultaneous French-English and English-French will be provided). THEME OF COLLOQUIUM The modeling of mental processes in the various human cognitive activities has generated increasing interest in the scientific world today. Cognitive models, cognitive simulations, auto-organization, adaptation, emergence, genetic selection, Darwinian mentalism and enaction are active research topics in neurological and psychological theory. The cognitive sciences offer a continuum of research extending from the engineering sciences to the philosophy of mind, including the neurosciences, cognitive psychology, linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial intelligence. Three subconferences will organize themselves around the following major complementary themes: (i) Modeling (cognitive and brain functions), (ii) Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology, and (iii) Applications (AI, technical and computational engineering). (i) Modeling is a point of intersection for all these specialties because it includes the modeling of functions and dysfunctions of the central nervous system, the neurocomputer sciences, the modeling of psychocognitive and mental processes, the emergence of intentional structure on the basis of biological structure, enaction, genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial "life," etc. (ii) The philosophical and epistemological subcomponent poses questions like the following: Can we elaborate mathematical models of the mind and use them to describe and explain human behavior? Are we aiming toward a mathematical model of the mind? Can we capture the formal principles of the development and emergence of cognition? Can we technologically recreate thought? Is the computational symbolic paradigm, which has imposed itself for the last decades, still a powerful conceptual tool or is it proving too reductionistic and if so, how? What is the epistemological status of, for example, the alternative proposed by the parallel distributed model to the computational models of classical cognitivism? What is the relation os the modeling activity of the cognitive and neurosciences and human experience? (iii) The applications subconference will consider practical domains in which scientific results have been applied in the treatment of language, the automated cognitive analyses of textual documents (an intersection of linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial intelligence), aids to decision making, applications in sensory information processing, etc. PREPROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 30 November 1994 8h15 - 8h30 Allocution d'accueil du Conseil Regional 8h30 - 9h Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble) Introduction SESSION 1 : Modelisation neuro et psycho-cognitives 9h - 9h-30 Jean Francois Le Ny (Universite Paris-Sud, psychologie cognitive) Pourquoi les modeles cognitifs devraient-ils etre calculatoires ? 9h30 - 9h45 Discussion 9h-45 - 10h15 Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, neurosciences) Le cerveau representationnel 10h15 - 10h30 Discussion 10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE 10h45 - 11h15 Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers University, USA, psychologie cognitive) What's in the Mind? A Computational Approach to a Ancient Question. 11h15 - 11h30 Discussion 11h30 - 12h00 Stevan Harnad (Princeton University, psychologie cognitive) Modeles, mobiles et mentalite 12h00 - 12h15 Discussion MEAL 14h00 - 14h30 Michel Imbert (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, neurosciences) De l'etude du cerveau a la comprehension de l'esprit 14h30 - 14h45 Discussion 14h45 - 15h15 Guy Tiberghien (Univers Pierre Mendes-France,Grenoble,psychologie cognitive) Connexionnisme: stade supreme du behaviorisme ? 15h15 - 15h30 Discussion 15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE 15h45 - 16h15 Jacques Demongeot (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, neurosciences) Memoire d'evocation dans les reseaux de neurones 16h15 - 16h30 Discussion 16h30 - 17h00 Bennet Murdock (Universite de Toronto, psychologie cognitive) THE ROLE OF FORMAL MODELS IN MEMORY RESEARCH 17h00 - 17h15 Discussion 17h15 - 17h45 Robert Proulx (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, neuro-psychologie) Plausibilite biologique de certains systemes de categorisation adaptative a base de reseaux de neurones 17h45 - 18h00 Discussion TUESDAY, December 1 Session 2 : Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition 9h - 9h30 Elisabeth Pacherie (Universite de Provence, CNRS & CREA, Paris) Domaines cognitifs et modularite 9h30 - 9h45 Discussion 9h-45 - 10h15 Pierre Livet (Universite de Provence & CREA, Paris, philosophie) Categorisation et connexionnisme 10h15 - 10h30 Discussion 10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE Normand Lacharite (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, epistemologie) 10h45 - 11h15 Conflits de modeles en theorie de la representation 11h15 - 11h30 Discussion 11h30 - 12h00 Peter Gardenfors (Lund University, Suede, philosophie) Language and the Evolution of Mind 12h15 - 12h15 Discussion MEAL 14h00 - 14h30 Andy Clark (Washington University, philosophie) Wild Cognition: Putting Representation in its Place 14h30 - 14h45 Discussion 14h45 - 15h15 Kevin Mulligan (Universite de Geneve, Suisse, philosophie) Constance perceptuelle et contenu spatial 15h15 - 15h30 Discussion 15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE 15h45 - 16h15 Ronald De Sousa (Universite de Toronto, epistemologie) La rationalite: un concept normatif ou descriptif ? 16h15 - 16h30 Discussion 16h30 - 17h00 Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, philosophie) Rationalite et naturalisme 17h00 - 17h15 Discussion 17h15 - 17h45 Joelle Proust (CNRS & CREA, Paris, philosophie) Un modele naturaliste de l'intentionnalite 17h45 - 18h00 Discussion FRIDAY, December 2 Session 3: Modelisation IA, Traitement du langage, et semantique cognitive Paul Jorion (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, psychologie cognitive) 9h - 9h30 Modelisation du reseau mnesique : une utilisation minimaliste de l'IA 9h30 - 9h45 Discussion 9h-45 - 10h15 Bernard Amy (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, connexionnisme) La place des reseaux neuronaux dans l'IA 10h15 - 10h30 Discussion 10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE 10h45 - 11h15 Paul Bourgine (CEMAGREF, Paris-Antony, IA-modelisation) Co-evolution et emergence du soi 11h15 - 11h30 Discussion 11h30 - 12h00 Paul Pietroski (Universite McGill, Canada, philosophie) What can linguistics teach us about belief 12h00 - 12h15 Discussion MEAL 14h00 - 14h30 Le paradigme hermeneutique et la mediation semiotique Francois Rastier (Institut National de la Langue Francaise, CNRS, linguistique computationnelle) 14h30 - 14h45 Discussion 14h45 - 15h15 L'impact des perspectives cognitives dans le traitement de l'information Jean-Guy Meunier (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, semiotique) 15h15 - 15h30 Discussion 15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE 15h45 - 16h15 Guy Denhiere (Universite Paris VIII, psychologie cognitive) Isabelle Tapiero (Universite Lyon II, psychologie cognitive) La signification comme structure emergente : de l'acces au lexique a la comprehension de textes 16h15 - 16h30 Discussion 16h30 - 17h00 Paul Freedman (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montreal, IA) La vision artificielle: le traitement intelligent de documents 17h00 - 17h15 Discussion 17h15 - 17h45 Denis Vernant (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble, philosophie) L'intelligence de la machine et sa capacite dialogique 17h45 - 18h00 Discussion 18h00: END OF COLLOQUIUM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -ADMISSION FEES- (Includes:access to the conference room, meals and the colloquium documents) Individuals-------------------------------------------------1500FF Student (join proof of eligibility with registration)------- 500FF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- REGISTRATION BULLETIN (The Cognitive Sciences:From computational models to philosophy of mind) Name:___________________________________________________________________ Status:_____________________________________ Institution/Company_________________________ Complete Address_________________________________________________________ Fax:________________________ Phone :______________________ @mail number__________________________________ Enclosed : Check or money order of (_____________________FF) (Make check or money order payable to CENTRE JACQUES CARTIER) -Send information on possibilities of housing in Lyon(______) _Send me the colloquium brochure (_____) -November 30 meal __ -December 1, meal __ -December 2, meal __ RETURN TO: CENTRE JACQUES CARTIER, 86 rue Pasteur, 69365 Lyon Cedex 07, France. 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