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Interactivist Summer Institute

June 9 - 12, 2009

Simon Fraser University

Vancouver, Canada

The ISI 09 meetings will be held in the McCarthy Terault Lecture Room, 2245, at the Simon Fraser University downtown Vancouver campus at Harbour Centre, 515 Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B5K3.

ISI 2009 Program
Abstracts

Tuesday, June 9 2009
9:00

Parmenides to Persons
Mark H. Bickhard
10:30 Break
11:00

Parmenides to Persons
Mark H. Bickhard
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Conceptual issues concerning Foundationalism: A framework for transcending the nativist-empiricist debate
Jed Allen
3:00 Break
3:30

Is the Concept ‘Concept’ a Useful Concept?
Kathleen L. Slaney & Timothy P. Racine
4:15 Forms of Meaning: From Mead's Conversation of Gestures to Significant Gestures
Jeremy Carpendale
5:00
Wednesday, June 10 2009
9:00

Some Issues in Metaethics
Mark H. Bickhard
10:30 Break
11:00

Agent Causation Reconsidered: The Evolutionary and Developmental Emergence of Self-Determining Persons
Jack Martin
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Artificial Scientist: Why are we not there yet?
Georgi Stojanov
3:00 Break
3:30

Developmental Psychology of the Whole Person: Transcending False Alternatives
Robert Campbell, John Chambers Christopher, and Mark H. Bickhard
4:30

A constructivist approach to the “research/application” loop: The example of a numeracy competencies diagnostic software
Sandra Bruno

5:15
Thursday, June 11 2009
9:00

Getting Beyond Rich and Lean Views of Early Social Cognition
Timothy P. Racine, Tyler J. Wereha, David A. Leavens
10:00

Mead’s Emergent Reality of Perspectives
Jake Stone
10:45 Break
11:15

Constitutive Interactivity and the Ontology of Psychological Kinds
Jeff Sugarman
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Decision Capacity Increases Intelligence, Wellbeing, and Survival, But Challenges to Decision Correctness Persist
Nils Greger Olsson
2:45

Group-level Characteristics: Measuring the Emergent Characteristics of Peers in the Classroom Context
Snjezana Huerta
3:30 Break
4:00

Rhythm, anticipation and regulation as key aspects of an interactivist account of behavior.
Jean-Christophe Buisson
4:45

A Constructivist Anticipatory Learning Mechanism For Coupled Agent-Environment Systems
Filipo Studzinski Perotto, Jean-Christophe Buisson, Luis Otávio Alvares
5:30
Friday, June 12 2009
9:00

Panel Discussion: Early Social Development
Mark Bickhard, Jeremy Carpendale, Jack Martin, Tim Racine, Jeff Sugarman  
10:00

Redefining empathy through interactivism
Stuart Hammond
10:45 Break
11:15

Jean Ladrière’s reading of Kurt Gödel and its effect on Jean Piaget’s theory of construction through interaction
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Panel Discussion: Executive Function
Mark Bickhard, Ulrich Müller
2:45 The Induction and Control of Central Nervous System Attractor Landscapes:
The Emergence of Representational Normativity in the Brain
Mark H. Bickhard
3:45 Break
4:15

Frontiers of Interactivism
Mark H. Bickhard
5:30