Fred Keijzer and Catarina Dutilh Novaes are organizing the following:
DATE: May 11th 2012, 9.30 to 18.00
PLACE: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen
ATTENDANCE: All welcome, but please send a message to cdutilhnovaes at yahoo dot com if you intend to come.
In recent discussions on the notion of embodied/extended
cognition and the extended mind hypothesis, the idea of a ‘mark of the
cognitive’ has received quite some attention. Both among the proponents
and among the critics of Extended Mind, many authors agree that the
project of formulating a principled demarcation for what is to count as
cognitive is imperative, not only with respect to this specific debate
but more generally as a fundamental question for the philosophy of
cognitive science. A few dissident voices, however, have considered the
possibility of this question being neither crucial nor answerable, for
example by relying on anti-essentialist conceptions of cognition.
Against this background, the Faculty of Philosophy of the
University of Groningen is hosting a one-day workshop to discuss the
very idea of the mark of the cognitive, in particular but not
exclusively with respect to the concept of embodied/extended cognition.
How should the question be formulated? Is it a matter of stipulating a
definition, or are we after a substantive theory of what cognition is?
Is 'the cognitive' a natural kind? How important is it to delineate a
mark of the cognitive for different projects in philosophy of mind and
cognitive science? These and other questions will be addressed during
the talks and discussions at the workshop.
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College): Operationalism gives the Mark of the Cognitive?
Julian Kiverstein (University of Amsterdam): Intentionality as the mark of the cognitive?
Fred Keijzer (University of Groningen): The need for a mark of something that we should call cognition
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen): Second-wave Extended Mind does not need a mark of the cognitive
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