Jedediah W.P. Allen
Graduate Student
jwa204@lehigh.edu

Academic History
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA, M.S. 2007

Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada, B.S. 2003
Cognitive Science (Psychology minor)

Research Interests
Most broadly I am interested in the possibility of intelligent systems that are compatible with naturalism. Currently, this interest is focused on understanding what the ontogenesis of representation could possibly look like given this naturalist assumption. My current research concerns developmental infant studies, with a focus on attempting to reconcile the underlying assumptions and subsequent motivations associated with the current trend to attribute high-level cognitive capacities to infants on the basis of looking time procedures.

Honors
Lehigh University Summer Research Fellowship, 2006

Manuscripts in Preparation
Allen, J.W., & Bickhard, M.H. (in preparation).  Why only a thoroughly action based approach can fully transcend the Nativist Empiricist epicycles and ground mind in the natural world.

Conference Presentations
Allen, J. W. (2008, June). Foundational issues: Why should we care? Paper talk accepted for presentation at the 38th Annual Jean Piaget Society Conference, Quebec City, Canada.

Allen, J. W. (2007, June).  Why only a thoroughly action based approach can fully transcend the Navtivist Empiricist epicycles and ground mind in the
natural world.  Paper presented at the 37th Annual Jean Piaget Society Conference, Amsterdam, Holland.

Allen, J.W. (2007, May).  Why only a thoroughly action based approach can fully transcend the Nativist Empiricist epicycles and ground mind in the natural world.  Paper presented at the 4th Biannual Interactivist Summer Institute, Paris, France.

Grant, S., Allen, J.W., & Sokol, B. (2004, June). The relation between children’s
understanding of seriation and interpretation. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Jean Piaget Society Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Professional Service
Conference Peer Reviewer, European Cognitive Science Society (2007). Journal Reviewer, Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science (2003 - 2004).
Assistant Journal Editor, Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science (2003).

Professional Affiliations
Jean Piaget Society: 2004 - present
Interactivist Summer Institute: 2005 - present
Cognitive Science Society: 2006 - present
Society for Philisophical psychology: 2008 - present