Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science X (PBCS X), May 3-4, 2021

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From: José Manuel Viejo García <jmanue...@HOTMAIL.COM> <jmanue...@HOTMAIL.COM>

Dear all,

 

Please find below the program of the tenth edition of the Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science (PBCS X).

 

The program is also posted on the conference website: https://pbcsxworkshop.wixsite.com/pbcsxworkshop/program

 

The workshop will be hosted via Zoom (3-4 May 2021). Attendance is free and open to everybody. If you are interested in being part of the audience, please contact us (pbcsxw...@gmail.com). 

 

Kind regards,

The organizing committee

 

 

Tenth Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences

 

Central European Time

May 3 & 4

 

May 3

 

10:30 - 11:00. Welcome and introduction by Cristian Saborido

11:00 - 11:30. Karl Bergman. Should the Teleosemanticist be Afraid of Semantic Indeterminacy?

11:40 - 12:10. Giacomo Zanotti. Causal closure, synaptic transmission and sui generis mental properties.

12:20 - 12:50. Cecily Whiteley. Natural Kinds and Conscious Minds: Reestablishing the Case for Optimism in Animal Sentience Research

13:00 - 13:30. Charles Beasley. Four Errors in the Science of Animal Consciousness

 

-Lunch break-

 

15:20 - 15:50. Aarón Álvarez González. Primitive and Recalcitrant Emotional Phenomenology

16:00 - 16:30. Mark-Oliver Casper & Giuseppe Flavio Artese. The Neglected Option of Ethological Explanations: Explaining Cognitive Phenomena through Enactivism and Ethology

16:40 - 17:10. Ainhoa Rodriguez Muguruza. Menstrual Cycles as key to Embodied Synchronisation

17:20 - 17:50. Tiina Rosenqvist. Color Illusions and the “Competence-Embeddedness” of Color Perception

 

-Plenary Talk-

 

18:00 - 19:30. Marta Jorba. An Affordance-based View of Inner Speech

 

May 4

 

11:00 - 11:30. Malena León. El rol "creativo" de los mecanismos de selección en los procesos evolutivos. Una contribución para entender la creatividad humana.

11:40 - 12:10. David Cortés García. Toward an Organismic Perspective in Evolutionary Biology: On the Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Origin of Novelties and the Evolution of Forms

12:20 - 12:50. David Ricote & Ignacio Maeso. Towards a novel unifying view of the genotype concept.

13:00 - 13:30. Francesca Bellazzi. Genes as natural kinds and their emergence

 

-Lunch break-

 

15:20 - 15:50. Juan Gefaell. Incommensurability and The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Taking Kuhn Seriously

16:00 - 16:30. Antonio Danese. Tree Thinking and Naturalization of Language

16:40 - 17:10. Tiago Rama. Biological teleology: Evaluating the teleosemantic project

17:20 - 17:50. Auguste Nahas. Are Candle Flames Teleological? A Critique of the Organisational Approach

 

-Plenary Talk-

 

18:00 - 19:30. Javier González de Prado. Biological teleology and regulation