*** Final Call for Abstracts ***
THEORY-LADENNESS OF EXPERIENCE
March 10-11 2011, Heinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany.
Organisers: Gerhard Schurz, Michela Tacca and Ioannis Votsis
Invited Speakers: William Brewer (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Allan
Franklin (Colorado), Martin Kusch (Vienna), Athanassios Raftopoulos
(Cyprus), Susanna Siegel (Harvard) and Markus Werning (Bochum).
The aim of the conference is to bring together philosophers,
psychologists and cognitive scientists whose work contributes to our
understanding of the scope and limits of theory-ladenness phenomena,
where these are broadly construed to include the domains of perception,
scientific evidence and language. We hope that the resulting synergy
will help provide novel and fruitful answers to questions like the
following: Is perception cognitively penetrable and, if so, how? Does
the choice of scientific theory affect how we select, interpret and
assess the evidential worth of data from experiments? Under what
circumstances can we doubt the veridicality of scientific instruments?
Can we draw a sharp distinction between terms that are theoretical and
those that are observational? We thus expect that the talks will deal
with one or more of the following topics: the modularity of mind,
nonconceptual content, the epistemology of evidence and the semantics of
observational terms.
We invite abstracts of up to 500 words on any of the above or closely
related topics. Please e-mail contributions to Ioannis Votsis (
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name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address.
Submission Deadline: 01 NOVEMBER 2010
Acceptance Notification: 01 DECEMBER 2010
We hope to publish the proceedings of the conference in a reputable
scientific journal. Upon completion of the conference, we will invite
participants to submit written-up versions of their talks. Submitted
papers will then be subjected to a peer-review process.
Speakers – Provisional Talk Titles:
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William Brewer (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 'Naturalized Approaches to
Theory Ladenness: Evidence from Cognitive Psychology History, and the
Ecological Validity Argument'
Allan Franklin (Colorado) 'Theory Ladenness and the Epistemology of
Experiment'
Martin Kusch (Vienna) 'Modules and Microscopes'
Athanassios Raftopoulos (Cyprus) 'Cognitive Impenetrability,
Nonconceptual Content, and Theory-Ladenness'
Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf) 'Ostensive Learnability as Criterion for
Theory-Neutral “Observation” Concepts'
Susanna Siegel (Harvard) 'Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Belief'
Michela Tacca (Duesseldorf) 'Cognitive Penetrability and the Content of
Perception'
Ioannis Votsis (Duesseldorf) 'The Observation-Ladenness of Theory'
Markus Werning (Bochum) 'The Role of Action in Perception'
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Attendance is open to all. If you plan to attend please contact Ioannis
Votsis ( [log in to unmask] ).
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