ISI 2001 Program

Interactivist Summer Institute

July 23 - 27, 2001

Lehigh University

ISI 2001 Program

Monday, 23 July 2001

Tuesday, 24 July 2001

Wednesday, 25 July 2001

Thursday, 26 July 2001

Friday, 27 July 2001

Week at a glance

	Monday, 23 July 2001 9:00 Tutorial: From Metaphysics to Rational Agents Mark H. Bickhard 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Coordinating Representations Richard Alterman 2:30 Emergent Representation out of Actions in Social Systems: Discovery in Collaborative Problem Solving Nira Granott 3:00 From the Origins of Life to Intelligence: The Emergence of Symbolic Constructs Silvano P. Colombano 3:30 Break 4:00 The Crucial Interactivist Nature of the Resolution of the Fundamental Problem of Intelligence: Problem Definition Cliff Hooker 4:45 8:00 Reception Lehigh University Humanities Center 224 West Packer
	Tuesday, 24 July 2001 9:00 Tutorial: Social and Ethical Beings Robert Campbell and John Christopher 12:30 Lunch 2:00 What the Brain Can't Do Naomi Goldblum 2:30 The Creative Problem Solving Process: Perspectives from Constructivism, Interactivism, and Evolutionary Epistemology Jason Chan 3:00 An Interaction Based Approach to Metaphor and Cognition Bipin Indurkhya 3:30 Break 4:00 Developmental Epistemology Richard F.Kitchener 4:45
	Wednesday, 25 July 2001 9:00 Ontogeny of Socially Communicative Robots Hideki Kozima 9:30 Knowing-what, Knowing-how and Levels of Explanation: How to Build Interdisciplinary Theories of Creativity Iris Stammberger 10:00 Intentionality and the Inside/Outside Distinction in Sensitive Systems Helena De Preester 10:45 Break 11:30 The Interactivist Model and Analytic Philosophy Mark H. Bickhard 12:15 Open Afternoon Converse Explore
	Thursday, 26 July 2001 9:00 Tutorial: Interactivism, Neuroethology, and the Explanation of Behavior Cliff Hooker and Mark H. Bickhard 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Approaching Process Ontology via Tense Fuzzy Algebraic Structures Goran Trajkovski and Georgi Stojanov 2;30 The Formal-Structural View of Logical Consequence Gila Y. Sher 3:15 Comments on Sher Mark H. Bickhard 3:30 Break 4:00 The Unified Self: An Enactionist Approach Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton 4:45
	Friday, 27 July 2001 9:00 Tutorial: Interactivism in AI Georgi Stojanov and Goran Trajkovski 12:30 Lunch 2;00 Interactivist Knowledge Representation in Recurrent Neural Robot Controllers - Umwelt and Embodiment of Robots Tom Ziemke 2:30 Implementing Interactivism: An Outline for Generic Interactivist Architecture Georgi Stojanov 3:00 Break 3:30 Panel Discussion 4:45 Close

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	23 July 01	24 July 01	25 July 01	26 July 01	27 July 01

9:00	Tutorial 1	Tutorial 2	Kozima	Tutorial 3	Tutorial 4
9:30	Bickhard	Campbell, Christopher	Stammberger	Hooker, Bickhard	Stojanov, Trajkovski
10:00	Bickhard	Campbell, Christopher	De Preester	Hooker, Bickhard	Stojanov, Trajkovski
10:30	Bickhard	Campbell, Christopher	De Preester/	Hooker, Bickhard	Stojanov, Trajkovski
11:00	Bickhard	Campbell, Christopher	Break	Hooker, Bickhard	Stojanov, Trajkovski
11:30	Bickhard	Campbell, Christopher	Bickhard	Hooker, Bickhard	Stojanov, Trajkovski
12:00	Tutorial 1	Tutorial 2	Bickhard/	Tutorial 3	Tutorial 4
12:30	Lunch	Lunch	Open	Lunch	Lunch
1:00
1:30
2:00	Alterman	Goldblum	Open	Trajkovski, Stojanov	Ziemke
2:30	Granott	Chan		Sher	Stojanov
3:00	Colombano	Indurkhya		Sher/Bickhard	Break
3:30	Break	Break		Break	Panel
4:00	Hooker	Kitchener		Ellis, Newton	Panel
4:30	Hooker/	Kitchener/	Open	Ellis, Newton/	Panel/
5:00

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