Naturalized Philosophy of Mind and Language

A conference in honor of Ruth Millikan

FRIDAY OCTOBER 3

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard) A113 Wilson Hall

“Is Thought a Biological Category?”

Commentator: Nick Shea (Oxford)

Chair: Derek Turner (Connecticut College)

5:45 pm – 7:15 pm Daniel Dennett (Tufts) A124/125 Wilson Hall

“There Is Something about Ruth”

Chair: John Troyer (UConn)

Plenary Session

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Banquet (sign up required)

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4

9:00 am - 10:30 am David Papineau (London)

“Teleosemantics and Mental Causation”

Commentator: Karen Neander (Duke)

Chair: Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin)

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Chris Hill (Brown) A113 Wilson Hall

“Revising Revisability”

Commentator: Alex Byrne (MIT)

Chair: Andrew Melnyk (Missouri)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch A126 Wilson Hall

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Terry Horgan and Uriah Kriegel (Arizona) A113 Wilson Hall

“The Phenomenal Intentionality Research Program”

Commentator: Tamar Gendler (Yale)

Chair: Tom Polger (Cincinnati)

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm William Lycan (UNC) A113 Wilson Hall

“More Layers of Perceptual Content”

Commentator: Austen Clark (UCONN)

Chair: Gunnar Bjornsson (Gothenburg)

4:45 pm – 6:00 pm Ruth Millikan (UConn) A113 Wilson Hall

“From a Theory of Concepts to a Theory of

Domain Restriction in Natural Language”

Chair: John Post (Vanderbilt)

Plenary Session

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Reception