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Interactivist Summer Institute

Aug 1 - 4, 2013

Harbor Hall (the old Dali Museum), University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg

ISI 2013 Program
Abstracts

Thursday, August 1, 2013
9:00 Parmenides to Persons
Mark H. Bickhard
10:30 Break
11:00 Parmenides to Persons
Mark H. Bickhard
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Interactivism and Central Nervous System Dynamics
Mark H. Bickhard

3:00 Break
3:45

Imitation: Learning to use others as a resource for further learning.
Jed Allen

4:45
 
Friday, August 2, 2013
9:00 Bats? Again?
Gordon Bearn
10:30 Break
11:00

Introducing Interactivism
Mark Bickhard

12:00 Lunch
2:00

The Phenomenology of Objectivity: Or, a Meditation on the "Thing"
Anthony Fernandez

3:00 Break
3:45 We are Expressions of Energy, Nurtured by the Sun and Each Other, Ever Transforming Energies that Motivate, Act, Perceive, Think, and Remember
Nils Greger Olsson
4:45  
 
Saturday, August 3, 2013
9:00

The Bilaterian Body Plan and the Evolution of Intrinsic Intentionality
Alex Levine

10:30 Break
11:00 The Anticipative Brain: Two Approaches
Mark Bickhard
12:00 Lunch
2:00

An Eventful Lesson: Reconceiving Laws of Nature within a Process Framework
Andrew M. Winters

3:00 Break
3:45 The Poincaré Map as an Analogy for Cognitive Representation
Brian W. Dunst
4:45
 
 
Sunday, August 4, 2013
9:00

Meaningful interactions for minimally cognitive agents.
John Symons

10:30 Break
11:00 Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory and the Interactivist Ontology of the Person
Robert L. Campbell
12:00 Lunch
2:00

Abductive Reasoning, Non-Monotonicity and Knowing Levels: An Interactivist Integration.
Jorge Elias Saiden_Nunez

3:00 Break
3:45

Iatrogenics in the Philosophy of Mind
Mark Bickhard

4:45