Graduate and Post-Doctoral Conference  
Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology  [PPNB]  
Call for papers, registration, and webpage contact list

30 April 2005, Saturday
All Souls College, Oxford (The Old Library)
(9:30 am to 7 pm)

Sponsors:
All Souls College and the McDonnell Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience

Organizers:
Susan Hurley (All Souls and Warwick)
Anita Avramides (St. Hilda’s)
Nick Shea (Somerville)

Senior guest speakers and provisional titles:

Prof. Andy Clark
Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
	“Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind”
 
Prof. Peter Hobson
Developmental Psychopathology, University of London/Tavistock Clinic
“Foundations for interpersonal engagement and understanding:
Do philosophy and developmental psychopathology make good
bedfellows?”

The remaining papers will be by graduate students and post-doctoral researchers
(doctoral work completed no earlier than 2000) in philosophy and in the relevant
sciences.  See information about submission below.

Purpose:  We aim to bring together young researchers interested in the mind in
relation to the world to address philosophical issues raised by empirical work
in psychology, neuroscience, ethology, and biology.  Relevant topics include: 
consciousness, perception, emotion, covert processing and related dissociations,
ecological or embodied approaches to the mind, representation in neural
networks, social cognition, motor control and voluntary action, simulation
theory, evolutionary psychology, issues of group selection, the relation of
thought to language, the evolution of language, animal minds, modularity,
rationality, cognitive and biological issues concerning complexity or emergence,
dynamic versus computational views of cognition, and so on.

We welcome participation and paper submissions by both philosophers and
scientists; papers should be of a character suitable for interdisciplinary
discussion.  Numbers will be limited to 50 to facilitate discussion.  Priority
for places will be given to research students and those who completed doctoral
work no earlier than 2000.

Lunch, coffee/tea, and a glass of wine afterward will be provided for all
participants.  There is no charge for the conference, but participants must
register in advance so that we can keep track of numbers; failure to show up for
a registered place will deprive someone else of a place!

Webpage:  If there is interest, the organizers propose to create a contact list
of people, including the details marked ‘*’ below, and post it on a PPNB webpage
based at Warwick University.  This would help researchers from various
disciplines to find and contact others with related interests and facilitate
building an interdisciplinary research community on these topics in the UK and
beyond.  Please indicate on the form below if you’d like to be included in such
a list.

Form for registration and submission of papers:

Please complete this form in order to register for the conference without giving
a talk, or if you wish to submit a paper.

Talks should be 30 minutes.  To submit a paper, please email the form below with
a précis of your talk of about 500-1000 words.

Submission deadline:  Feb. 15, 2005
Acceptances by:  March 7, 2005

*Your name:
*Your email address:
*Your primary research topics:

*Degree you are currently registered for:
*Department:
*University:

*If not currently registered for a degree, your highest obtained degree:
*Department:
*University:
*Year degree obtained:
*Your current appointment:
*Department:
*University:

Would you like the above information (that marked ‘*’ only) posted on a “PPNB
Research Community” webpage to facilitate contacts among researchers with shared
interests?
Yes or No

Your telephone number:
Your postal address:

Do you wish to submit a paper? 
Or to register for the conference without submitting a paper?  

[We will not be able to inform people whether they have a non-speaker place at
the conference until the date for submission acceptances, March 7, since only
then will we know how many places are available for non-speakers.  Please ensure
that if you are given a place at the conference and cannot attend that you
inform us as soon as possible so that we can offer your place to someone else.]

If you submit a paper and it is not accepted as a talk, would you like to
register to attend the conference in any case without giving a talk?

Title of your submission/talk:
Which disciplines does it draw on primarily, or to which is it most relevant?
Will you need powerpoint?
Will you need an overhead projector?
(Please use one of these rather than a slide projector.)

500-1000 word précis of your 30 minute talk.  Please state your main claim and
provide a clear outline of your overall argument.  Significantly shorter or
longer submissions may be disadvantaged.

Please send this form to all 3 organizers:  susan.hurley@all-souls.ox.ac.uk,
anita.avramides@st-hildas.oxford.ac.uk, nicholas.shea@somerville.oxford.ac.uk.

Registrations and submissions will be acknowledged; if you do not receive a
registration please let us know as your first message may have gone astray.

Submission deadline:  Feb. 15, 2005
Acceptances by:  March 7, 2005

Early submissions are welcome, but there is no particular advantage to early
submission, as we will not make final decisions before the deadline.

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