Cognition and Experience

May 20 - 21, at 9 am, at Universitetsklubben, in The Universum building at Campus.

Questions of interest include: Are there innate concepts or are all concepts learned on the basis of experience? Are the mental vehicles of thinking uniformly language-like or uniformly picture-like or not uniform?

Are images at best heuristic aids for reasoning and problem solving, or is there reasoning that is somehow irreducibly image-based? What exactly is the difference between cognition and experience?

Speakers:Ned Block, New York UniversitySusan Carey, Harvard UniversityAnna Franklin, University of SussexChris Gauker, Universität SalzburgEileen Nutting, University of KansasManya Raman Sundström, Umeå UniversityBarbara Tversky, Columbia University
Sebastian Watzl, University of Oslo

Programme

Abstracts

Attendance is free and open to all as far as our space allows. Registration is required. There is a limited space left for late registration. Register by sending an email to Pär Sundström.

Organiser:
Pär Sundström

Also, in connection with the workshop:

On May 18-19 Susan Carey gives the annual Hans Wallin Lectures in Mathematics Education 
On May 19 at 19.15 Ned Block gives a talk at the Philosophical Society. Details about this will appear here

Editor: Per Melander