Workshop: New Perspectives on Mental State Attribution

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Schedule

December 10, 2018

• 9:00 – 9:30: Coffee
• 9:30 – 9:45: Jennifer Nagel (Philosophy, Toronto): Welcome and introductions
• 9:45 – 11:15: Rebecca Saxe (Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT, USA)
• 11:15 – 12:45: Ted Ruffman (Psychology, Otago New Zealand): “A Baby’s Eye View: Theory of Mind Development Through Exposure to Repeated Behaviours”
• 12:45 – 1:45: Lunch break
• 1:45 – 3:15: Johannes Roessler (Philosophy, Warwick UK): “Children’s Understanding of Perceptual Knowledge”
• 3:15 – 3:30: Coffee break
• 3:30 – 5:00: Neil Rabinowitz (Google DeepMind): “Learning a Machine Theory of Mind”

December 11, 2018

• 9:00 – 9:30: Coffee
• 9:30 – 11:00: Kristin Andrews (Philosophy, York): “The Normative Psychology of Social Cognition”
• 11:00 – 12:30: Hannes Rakoczy (Psychology, Göttingen, Germany): “The (dis-)unity of implicit and explicit theory of mind”
• 12:30 – 2:00: Lunch break
• 2:00 – 3:30: Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden): “Building Attitudes in the Grammar”
• 3:30 – 4:00: Coffee break
• 4:00 – 5:00: Rachel Dudley (Cognitive Studies, ENS Paris, France): “Pragmatic Effects in Children’s Understanding of Attitude Verbs”