Preliminary programme

Posted on 6 September 2010 by admin

September11th
around 14:00 Minibus leaving Warsaw
around 17:00 Arrival at hotel
17:30-18:30 Dinner at hotel (for all participants)

September 12th
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
8:30-10:00 Ken Binmore – How Scientific is Behavioural Economics?
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-13:00 Michał Siwek – Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg’s Criticism ofBehavioral Economics: the Exchange Rate Models
Ramzi Mabsout – Why economics is not a mathematical science?
Davide Rizza – The Limits of Methodological Naturalism in Economics
13:00-14:00 Lunch (for all participants)
14:00-15:40 Michał Tomasz Godziszewski and Mateusz Wywiał – How not tonaturalise economics: Milton Friedman’s case
Peter Boltuc – Thin Social Capital
15:40-16:10 Coffee
16:10-17:00 John Collier – How do we decide what game we are playing?

September 13th
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
8:30-10:00 Christophe Heinz – We’re all choice architect
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-13:00 Karolina Safarzynska – Evolution, economic valuation and policy
Mariam Thalos – Precaution is a modulator
Majid Amini – Can Economics Be Naturalised? On the Status of the SocialSciences
13:00-14:00 Lunch (for all participants)
14:00-16:00 Walking Tour of Kazimierz
18:00 Conference Dinner

September 14th
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
8:30-10:00 Eric Angner – Behavioral vs. Neoclassical Economics: A Weberian analysis
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-13:00 Lukasz Jonak – Cognitive capitalism, an empirical approach
Lena Adamus – Games against nature as an example of natural rationality
Christine Clavien – The many ways experimental economists use the notion ofaltruism
13:00-14:00 Lunch (for all participants)
14:00-15:40 Magdalena Malecka and Magdalena Reuter – Gerd Gigerenzer’secological rationality of heuristics and its implications for economics
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Expected utility is always used as a heuristic
15:40-16:10 Coffee
16:10-17:00 Karol Pogorzelski – How much can we expect from experimentaleconomics?

September 15th
8:00-8:30 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
8:30-10:30 Closing discussion
11:00-12:00 Lunch (for all participants)
12:00 Leaving Kazimierz

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KNEW 08 Preliminary programme

Posted on 6 September 2008 by admin

Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop Preliminary Schedule

September 6th

2:00pm Leaving Warsaw airport

5:00pm Arriving Kazimierz

5:30pm – Grill

September 7th

8:00am – 8:30am Breakfast

8:30am – 10:00am Peter Gärdenfors – Representing actions in conceptual spaces

10:00am – 10:30am Mark Alfino – Naturalizing wisdom

10:30am – 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am – 11:30am G. Randolph Mayes – Naturalizing cruelty

11:30 – 12:00 Christian Cocos – Natural kinds and axiomatic science

12:00 – 12:30 Nicholas Wiltsher – Kornblith on knowledge and natural kinds

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch at the hotel

1:30 – 2:00 John Collier – System interpretable signs: Where mere information ends and meaning begins

2:30 – 3:00 Jonathan Knowles – Is naturalism a threat to metaphysics?

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee break 3:30 – 5:00

Ingo Brigandt – Reductive naturalism and the use of intuitions: two lessons from biology

September 8th

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 Susan Haack – Belief in Naturalism

10:00 – 10:30 Szymon Nowak – Who is a thinker, and why do we know that?

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Rui Silva – Explaining human action: On Susan Haack’s account of the relation between social and natural sciences

11:30 – 12:00 Piotr Leśniak – Three aspects of perceptual states

12:00 – 12:30 Lisa Warenski – Epistemic norms and objectivity: Toward a nonreductive and naturalistic account

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch at the hotel

1:30 – 2:00 Marcin Miłkowski – Explicating ontological naturalism

2:00 – 2:30 Tadeusz Ciecierski & Katarzyna Kuś – Towards semantic naturalism

2:30 – 5:30 Exploring the town

September 9th

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 Susan Stuart – Kantian Naturalism

10:00 – 10:30 Piotr Bołtuć – Consciousness and Free Will in future AI and bio-AI

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Ryszard Wójcicki – Knowledge systems

11:30 – 12:00 Gergely Kertész – On the role of Lamarckian factors in knowledge processes

12:00 – 12:30 Kevin Delapp – What is ethical naturalism?

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch at the hotel

1:30 – 2:00 Paweł Grabarczyk – Naturalized metaphysics

2:00 – 2:30 Timo Vuorio – Metaphor of ‘Two Spaces’ and Epistemological Naturalism

2:30 – 3:00 Karol Polcyn – The intuition of dualism

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 – 5:00 David Papineau – The Poverty of Analysis

6:00 – Workshop dinner

September 10th

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 – 10:30 Closing panel discussion

11:00 – 12:00 Lunch at the hotel

12:00pm Leaving for Warsaw

Around 3:00pm Arriving at Warsaw airport

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Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop 09

Posted on 17 February 2008 by admin

NATURALISM AND THE MIND

KAZIMIERZ NATURALISM WORKSHOP 2009

September 4th – 8th 2009

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

 

Invited key speakers

Tim Crane (Cambridge, UK)

Carl Craver (St. Louis, USA)

Álvaro Moreno (UPV/EHU, Spain)

Joelle Proust (Institute Jean Nicod, France)

Ricardo Sanz (UPM, Spain)

 

Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How  should study we the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? The workshop aims to further the development of a naturalistic view of the mind through focussed, friendly discussion undertaken in the relaxed atmosphere of a picturesque historical town.

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Avant 1/2013

Posted on 13 August 2013 by admin

The recent issue of Avant12013_en.JPGAvant is called STS meets CS.

The issue is devoted to the problems between science, technology and society studies and cognitive science.

Editors: Łukasz Afeltowicz, Morana Alač, Aleksandra Derra, Przemysław Nowakowski, Witold Wachowski.

Managing Editor: Aleksandra Derra.

 

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Kawiarnia Filozoficzna – 68+57=? – Nowe formy filozoficznego sceptycyzmu

Posted on 4 January 2013 by admin

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logo_fn_male.gif10 I 2013 o godzinie 18.30
Kawiarnia „Tarabuk”, ul. Browarna 6, Warszawa

 

Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne spotkanie Kawiarni Filozoficznej, której gościem będzię tym razem dr Bogdan Dziobkowski z Instytutu Filozofii UW.

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KNEW 2012 Presentations

Posted on 14 September 2012 by admin

We are making the presentations from Kazimierz Dolny Workshop on Naturalising Religion available below. 

 

Robert McCauley – Philosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Preventing truth: How philosophy and psychology of religion fail

Jonathan Jong – Is the cognitive science of religion philosophically interesting?

Mikael Leidenhag – The relevance of emergence in the science-religion debate

Jesper Sorensen – The cognitive mechanisms of ritual: Ritualisation, goal-demotion and representations of ritual efficiency

John Wilkins – Naturalising religion: A phylogenetic approach

Matthew Schunke and Christopher Pearson – Explanation and the science of religion: A critique of key presuppositions

Martin Lang – Naturalising methods: possibilities of using neuroscience in the scientific study of religion

Łukasz Jędrzejczak – Components of mystical experience evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Can we try it at home?

Helen De Cruz – The tragedy of the theologian? Divine Attributes, theological incorrectness and inference richness

Andrew Atkinson – Naturalising Religion: Some Remarks

Adam Green – The mindreading debate and the cognitive science of religion

Maarten Boudry – In mysterious ways: On belief in supernatural causation and the truth value of religion

Karolina Prochownik – Modern philosophical approach to the origin of evil

John Collier – Can current information theory as applied to physics support a belief in God?

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Payment

Posted on 6 July 2010 by admin

dotpay_b5_145x263_engHere are the links you can use to pay the workshop fee (and accommodation cost, if required). 

Standard workshop fee only, no accommodation (690 PLN)

Standard workshop fee, including accommodation in a shared double room (1150 PLN)

Standard workshop fee, including accommodation in a single room (1350 PLN)  

Reduced workshop fee, no accommodation (345 PLN)

Reduced workshop fee, including accommodation (805 PLN)

Note for Polish participants: please pay via bank transfer using our bank account:

Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych 
Stawki 3 lok. 20
Warszawa
Polska / Poland
00-193

29 2130 0004 2001 0430 4713 0001, Volkswagen Bank 

Here are the formal regulations  (if you need to cancel your talk etc.). Because of the Polish law, they are in Polish. Basically, you can get your money back if the cancellation occurs earlier than 14 days to the conference dates. From 13 until 7 days you get 50% refund; in the case of later cancellations no money will be reimbursed.

 

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Thinking with hands, eyes and things

Posted on 9 August 2013 by admin

  PosterTrends2013Small.JPGWe invite you to participate in the conference “Thinking with hands, eyes and things” that will be held in Torun, from November 8 to November 10, 2013. The event is a part of the conference series TRENDS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES.

The conference is devoted to extra-neural aspects of cognition as well as controversies related to them.
It is a banal claim that both the body and the environment are involved in our experience of the world. The point, however, is that the whole body as well as its interactions with the environment play a crucial role in our mental processes. Cognition may involve integration with our tools, and we may even delegate some of our thinking to the environment. According to situated cognition and extended mind approaches, humans use elements of their environment as external components of cognitive processes or as means of reducing the complexity of the cognitive problems they face. The theory of affordances connects observers and environments in the act of cognition and cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective. Some researchers treat the immune system as a kind of cognitive system. Proponents of embodied cognitive science maintain that aspects of the body beyond the brain play a significant role in cognition. science, technology & society studies seem to support and complement this way of thinking. The claims made above are far from uncontroversial, however. Their critics assert that since research results in cognitive science do not lend sufficient warrant to the theses of embodied, distributed, extended or situated cognition, the non-neuronal body and elements of the environment play a peripheral role in cognitive processing.
Thinking with the body/environment – or thinking in the body/environment? Is the question appropriate or simply misleading in the second decade of the 21st century?

 

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Kawiarnia Filozoficzna – Czy możemy być odpowiedzialni za coś, czego nie mogliśmy nie zrobić?

Posted on 17 November 2012 by admin

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22 XI 2012 o godzinie 18.30
Kawiarnia „Tarabuk”, ul. Browarna 6, Warszawa

Z przyjemnością zapraszamy na kolejne spotkanie „Kawiarni Filozoficznej”. Naszymi gośćmi będą mgr Agnieszka Dębska i mgr Adrian Andrzej Ziółkowski, którzy postarają się odpowiedzieć na pytanie o odpowiedzialność za czyny, których nie można było uniknąć.

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Provisional KNEW 2011 Schedule

Posted on 30 August 2011 by admin

September 5th
around 14:00 Minibus leaving Warsaw
around 17:00 Arrival at hotel
17:30-18:30 Dinner at hotel (for all participants)

September 6th
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
9:00-10:30 Paco Calvo – Systematic behavior and  the varieties of (representational) vehicles
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:30-13:30  John Collier – A Dynamical Peircean approach to naturalizing representation
Wayne Christensen and John Michael – The representational demands of mind reading
Andrzej Kapusta – Representation and engaged epistemology
13:30-14:30 Lunch (for all participants)
14:30-15:50 Wendy Wilutzky – The bodily representation of emotions
Paweł Gładziejewski – On the relation between folk psychological and scientific concepts of mental representation
15:50-16:20 Coffee
16:20-17:00 Christopher Martin – A process-oriented definition of teamwork with consequences for team cognition and performance

September 7th
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
9:00-10:30 Huw Price – Representationalism: My journey from nihilism to dualism
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Jonathan Knowles – Anti-representationalism and perception
Timo Vuorio – On the very problem of representation
Robert Clowes – Virtualist representation and the heterogeneous vehicles of thought
13:30-14:30 Lunch (for all participants)
14:30-16:30 Walking Tour of Kazimierz
18:00 Conference Dinner

September 8th
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
9:00-10:30 Edouard Machery
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Fredrik Stjernberg – Kinds of representations, kinds of cognition
Piotr Wilkin – Do representations need to represent?
Krystyna Bielecka – Social coordination as an important component of mental representation
13:30-14:30 Lunch (for all participants)
14:30-15:50 Marcin Miłkowski – The role of representation in computational explanations
Katarzyna Kuś and Joanna Komorowska-Mach – Iconic format of core cognition representations
15:50-16:20 Coffee
16:20-17:40 Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Reference and religious representations

September 9th
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (for participants staying at hotel)
9:00-11:00 Closing discussion
11:30 Leaving Kazimierz

 

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Preliminary programme

Posted on 5 August 2009 by admin

September 4th

2:00 Leaving Warsaw airport

about 5:00 Arriving in Kazimierz

5:30-6:30 Dinner

 

September 5th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-9:50 Ricardo Sanz – The nature of knowledge from an autonomous systems perspective

9:50-10:30 Majid Davoody – NAI: Can AI get naturalized?

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:00 Piotr Bołtuć – The engineering thesis in machine consciousness

Paweł Grabarczyk – Do animals see any objects?

Samuli Pöyhönen – Carving the psyche by its joints: natural kinds and the social construction in psychiatry

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:20

Tadeusz Ciecierski – Qualia as properties

Jonathan Knowles – Naturalism and the mind-world relation

3:20-3:50 Coffee

3:50-5:10 Alvaro Moreno – A biological perspective of the nature of cognition. Some remarks for a naturalistic program

5:10-6:10 Dinner (in town)

 

September 6th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-10:30

Rodrigo González – Conceivable experiences, naturalism and the explanatory gap

Dimitris Platchias – A HOT solution to the problem of the explanatory gap

Joanna Klimczyk – What is wrong with the buck-passing account of value? On some problems with the naturalistic approach to value

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:40

Argyris Arnellos – Naturalising Autonomy – On the neurobiological grounding of emotions

Colin Cheyne – Emotion, Fiction and Naturalism

John Collier – Rationality and Motivation

Juraj Hvorecky – Normativity, emotion and evolution

1:40-2:40 Lunch

2:40-3:50

Marcin Miłkowski – Sciences of re-engineering

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Evolution, generative entrenchment and the bounds of rationality

3:50-4:20 Coffee Break

4:20-5:40 Tim Crane – Mental substances and their powers

5:40-6:0 Dinner (in town)

 

September 7th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-9:50 Carl Craver – Memory and Moral Agency: A Case Study in Clinical Moral Psychology

9:50-10:30 Thomas Polger – Realisation & mechanism

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-1:00

Benoît Dubreuil – The evolution of the mind: from mental phenomena to (increasingly) plausible mechanisms

Krystyna Bielecka – How truth can be a relational property: Deflationary concept of truth as a relation

Sinem Elkatip – Undermining the distinction between experiences and subjects of experiences

1:40-2:40 Lunch

2:40-4:40 Guided tour of Kazimierz

6:00- Conference Dinner (in town)

 

September 8th

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-10:30 Closing presentation & discussion

11:00-12:00 Lunch

12:00 Leaving for Warsaw

3:00 Arriving Warsaw airport

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Regarding the Mind, Naturally

Posted on 11 May 2013 by admin

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We are happy to announce the publication ofRegarding the Mind, Naturally: Naturalist Approaches to the Sciences of the Mental, edited by K. Talmont-Kamiński and M. Miłkowski (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013). The book is a collection of papers written mostly by regular participants of KNEW, yearly philosophical workshops organized by the volume’s editors under the aegis of the CPR. The contributors include: Marcin Miłkowski (CPR), Samuli Pöyhönen, Mark Alfino, Alvaro Moreno, Paweł Grabarczyk (CPR), Markus I. Eronen, Panu Raatikainen, Witold M. Hensel (CPR), Jonathan Knowles, Tadeusz Ciecierski (CPR), Dimitris Platchias, Jaime Gomez Ramirez, Krystyna Bielecka (CPR) and María J. Frápolli.

Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How should we study the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? In this book, philosophical questions about the mind are asked in the context of recent developments in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, psychology, and the project of the naturalisation. Much of the focus is upon what we have learned by studying natural mental mechanisms as well as designing artificial ones. In the case of natural mental mechanisms, this includes consideration of such issues as the significance of deficits in these mechanisms for psychiatry. The significance of the evolutionary context for mental mechanisms as well as questions regarding rationality and wisdom are also explored. Mechanistic and functional models of the mind are used to throw new light on discussions regarding issues of explanation, reduction and the realisation of mental phenomena. Finally, naturalistic approaches are used to look anew at such traditional philosophical issues as the correspondence of mind to world and presuppositions of scientific research.

 

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