Interactivist Summer Institute

July 22 - 26, 2003

Copenhagen

ISI 2003 Program

Tuesday, 22 July 2003

Wednesday, 23 July 2003

Thursday, 24 July 2003

Friday, 25 July 2003

Saturday, 26 July 2003

Week at a glance

Tuesday, 22 July 2003

9:00

Tutorial

Interactivism: From Parmenides to Persons

Mark H. Bickhard

12:00

Lunch

2:00

Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem: Toward an Interactivist Perspective.

Robert L. Campbell and Walter F. Foddis

3:00

Affects, Autonomy, and AI.

Craig DeLancey

3:30

Constructivist Framework for Understanding Pain: Beyond Representationalism

Yoshio Nakamura and C. Richard Chapman

4:00

Break

4:30

Purposiveness and causal explanation.

Carlos Herrera Pérez

5:00

Mirror neurons Vs Mirroring Nature: More Empirical Constraints for Interactivism

Georgi Stojanov


Wednesday, 23 July 2003

9:00

Invited Talk:

A sensorimotor approach to the feel of sensory experience, and the genesis of the notion of space.

J. Kevin O'Regan, David Philipona, Jean-Pierre Nadal

10:30

Break

11:00

An algebraic approach to modeling the emergence of representations through interaction.

Bipin Indurkhya

12:00

Lunch

2:00

Panel on Supervenience and Emergence

Richard Campbell, Johanna Seibt, Stuart Silvers

Organizer: Stuart Silvers

3:30

Dynamical Systems, Emergence and Explanation

Joel Walmsley

4:00

Break

4:30

The world in motion.

Marius Hartmann

5:00

Interactivism at Work
Towards design heuristics for Ambient Intelligence


Mikkel Sorensen


Thursday, 24 July 2003

9:00

Reactive agents and perceptual ambiguity

Michel van Dartel and Eric Postma

9:30


IETAL, MASIVE, POPSICLE… The Sequence…

Goran Trajkovski and Georgi Stojanov

10:00

Perceptual Anchoring: A Key Problem for Cognitive Robotics

Silvia Coradeschi and Alessandro Saffiotti

10:30

Break

11:00

Intentionality from phenomenological, analytic and interactivist perspectives

Helena De Preester Wayne Christensen

11:30

Stripping the consciousness: Is our cognitive system enough to explain for the phenomenon?

Marek Dobes

12:00

Lunch

2:00

Open Afternoon: Discuss, Explore



Friday, 25 July 2003

9:00

Emergent Persons

Jack Martin

10:30

Break

11:00

CONTINGENT RESPONSIVITY AND THE CREATION OF ORDERED WORLDS:
Interactivism and the Normative Intersubjectivity of Talk-in-Interaction


Donald F. Favareau

12:00

Lunch

2:00


Interaction as Natural Semiosis

Jesper Hoffmeyer

2:30

Three Modes of Anticipation: Complex Interface Relations

Edwina Taborsky

3:00

Interactivist naturalization of biosemiotics and Peircean semeiotic

Tommi Vehkavaara

3:30

Break

4:00

An Interactivist Perspective of Autonomous Robotic Sign Users

Erich Prem

4:30

Cognitive Representation as Emulation of Perception and Behavior:
Theory and Robot Models


Tom Ziemke

5:00

Architectural Constraints Imposed by Functional Complexity:
Implications for the structure and operation of the brain.


L. Andrew Coward



Saturday, 26 July 2003

9:00

Cognition viewed as a non-equilibrium optimizing process

Wolfgang Tschacher

10:30

Break

11:00

New Trends in Cognitive Science – Lessons from the Past

Nicole Rossmanith Andreas Reichelt Brigitte Roemmer

11:30

Two New Principles of Interactivist Architecture:

Microgenesis and Themes.

Mark H. Bickhard

12:00

Lunch

2:00

An ontogenetic-based ontology for consciousness.

Riccardo Manzotti, Britta Glatzeder

2:30

Test the representational and presentational conceptions of knowledge and memory with describing and retrieving figurative materials by Chinese and French.

Tzyy-Jiun Lung, Andre Demailly

3:00

Integration, Abstraction, and Concept Learning.

Wayne D. Christensen

3:30

Break

4:00

Some Frontiers of Interactivism


Mark H. Bickhard



Tuesday

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
22 July 03 23 July 03 24 July 03 25 July 03 26 July 03
9:00 Bickhard O'Regan, Philipona & Nadal van Dartel & Postma Martin Tschacher
9:30 Bickhard O'Regan, Philipona & Nadal Trajkovski & Stojanov Martin Tschacher
10:00 Bickhard O'Regan, Philipona & Nadal Coradeschi & Saffiotti Martin Tschacher
10:30 Break Break Break Break Break
11:00 Bickhard Indurkhya De Preester & Christensen Favareau Rossmanith, Reichelt & Roemmer
11:30 Bickhard Indurkhya Dobes Favareau Bickhard
12:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
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2:00 Campbell & Foddis Campbell, Seibt, Silvers Open Afternoon Hoffmeyer Manzotti & Glatzeder
2:30 Campbell & Foddis Campbell, Seibt, Silvers Taborsky Lung & Demailly
3:00 DeLancey Campbell, Seibt, Silvers Vehkavaara Christensen
3:30 Nakamura & Chapman Walmsley Break Break
4:00 Break Break Prem Bickhard
4:30 Perez Hartman Ziemke Bickhard
5:00 Stojanov Sorensen Coward Bickhard

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