The 2010 UTA Summer Seminar in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroethics

July 13-15, UTA Campus, 303 Chemistry and Physics Building, Arlington, Texas 11:30 Jeremy Shipley
University of Iowa, Philosophy
Presented by: Varying Variance (Invariantly)
The Department of Philosophy and Humanities & The College of Liberal Arts
 
 
And with the generous support of: 3:30 Peter LeGrant & Kenneth Williford
The Office of the Vice President for Research Kirkwood College, Philosophy; UTA, Philosophy
  Spinoza and Functionalism
All events will be held in 303 Chemistry and Physics Building (CPB).  
5:00 Harry P. Reeder
DAY ONE—Tuesday, July 13 UTA, Philosophy
9:45 Beth S. Wright, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts The Role of Language in Phenomenological Description
Opening remarks  
  6:15 Adam Briggle
10:00 Dan Levine UNT, Philosophy
UTA, Psychology What Bioethics can Teach Neuroethics
It’s Not Just “Survival and Reproduction, Stupid”  
   
11:30 Daniel C. Krawczyk DAY THREE—Thursday, July 15
UTD, Center for Brain Health, UTSW, Psychiatry 10:00 Matthew J. Brown
What can Neuroscience tell us about Reasoning? UTD, Philosophy, Center for Values in Science, Technology, and Medicine
  Love Slaves and Wonder Women: Values and Popular Culture in the Psychology of W.M. Marston
3:30 Heekyeong Park  
UTA, Psychology 11:30 Justin Fisher
Neural Correlates of Encoding Within- and Across-Domain Inter-Item Associations SMU, Philosophy
  The Challenge of Syntactic Typing
5:00 Erik Nylen  
University of Iowa, Biomedical Engineering, NYU, Center for Neural Science 3:30 Charles Nussbaum
How much can a Diseased Eye See? UTA, Philosophy
  Can Natural Necessity Be Naturalized?
6:15 Fabrice Jotterand  
UTSW, Departments of Clinical Sciences and Psychiatry/Philosophy and Bioethics 5:00 Timothy Odegard
Please Engineer My Brain…I Was Born a Criminal!:  Neuroimaging Technologies, Psychopathy and Moral UTA, Psychology
Neuro-enhancement Diachronic Disunity:  The Severing of the Self across Time
 
DAY TWO—Wednesday, July 14 6:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Pete Mandik
10:00 Nathanial Blower William Paterson University of New Jersey, Philosophy
University of Iowa, Philosophy The Slow-switching Slowdown Showdown
Dennett vs. Hacker: Mind, Metaphor and the Mereological Fallacy

Exomusicology by Pete Mandik