The Minds Online conference starts today, has three week-long, and ends on September 29th. So mark your calendars and set aside some time to read and comment.
You will find that each Minds Online session has a keynote and a few contributed papers — each contributed paper with its own invited commenters. Papers are posted for advanced reading the Saturday before their session. And public commenting for each session runs from Monday (8am, EST) to Friday.
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Conference hashtag: #MindsOnline2017. The full program is below:
September 11-15
KEYNOTE
Helen de Cruz (Oxford Brookes)
“Skilled Seemings“
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
“The Dark Side of Morality: Group Polarization and Moral-Belief Formation“, by Marcus Arvan (Tampa)
- Commentators: Michael Bishop (Florida State), Hrishikesh Joshi(Princeton)
“The Mental Affordance Hypothesis“, by Tom McClelland (Warwick)
- Commentators: Derek Jones (Evansville), Julian Kiverstein (Amsterdam), Carlos Muñoz-Suárez (Barcelona)
“Water is and is not H2O“, by Kevin Tobia (Yale), George Newman(Yale), and Joshua Knobe (Yale)
- Commentators: Jussi Haukioja (Norwegian University), Dan Weiskopf (Georgia State)
September 18-22
KEYNOTE
Bertram Gawronkski (Texas, Austin)
“Consequences, Norms, and Generalized Inaction in Moral Dilemmas: The CNI Model of Moral Decision-Making“
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
“Remembering as a mental action”, by Santiago Arango-Muñoz (Antioquia), Juan Pablo Bermúdez (Externado de Colombia)
- Commentators: Felipe De Brigard (Duke), Kourken Michaelian(Otago)
“The Good of Boredom”, by Andreas Elpidorou (Louisville)
- Commentators: Zachary Irving (Virginia), Jennifer Windt (Monash)
“The Unity of Moral Attitudes”, by Derek Shiller
- Commentators: Derek Baker (Lingnan), Tristram McPherson (Ohio State) and David Faraci (Georgetown)
“Implicit Bias and the Unconscious”, by Ege Yumusak (Cambridge)
- Commentators: Grace Helton (Princeton), Katherine Puddifoot(Birmingham)
September 25-29
KEYNOTE
Edouard Machery (PITTSBURGH)
“The Amodal Brain“
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
“Two Varieties of Cognitive Penetration”, by Greyson Abid (UC Berkeley)
- Commentators: Dimitria Gatzia (Akron), Athanasios Raftopoulos(Cyprus)
“Perceptual Precision”, by Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr)
- Commentators: Alison Springle (Pittsburgh), Christopher Hill(Brown)
“Attention and Encapsulation”, by Jake Quilty-Dunn (Oxford)
