Interactivist Summer Institute 2009

MAJOR THEMES

Conference themes:

  • Foundations of Interactivism
  • Naturalism
  • Emergence
  • Process metaphysics
  • Cognition and Representation
  • Representation emergent in action systems
  • Central Nervous System realizations of Mental Processes
  • Dissolution of problems of skepticism, error, Chinese room, etc.
  • Concepts
  • Memory
  • Learning
  • Heuristic learning
  • Metaphor
  • Rationality and negative knowledge
  • Agents
  • Interaction
  • Motivation
  • Emotions
  • Autonomous agents
  • Robotic and computational models of interaction and cognition
  • Persons
  • Development
  • Consciousness
  • Sociality
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Social processes and realities