Department of Philosophy
Events involving Stirling philosophers
Second AHRC Workshop on
The Interactive Mind, Edinburgh
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
This workshop took place on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th June 2005
Venue
Abden House, Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh
Local Organiser
Mike Wheeler (Philosophy, Stirling)
with assistance from
Andy Clark (Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Edinburgh)
Programme
Friday 10th June
9.15-9.45 Arrival and Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 Eric Clarke (Music, Sheffield) ‘Music – Mind – Environment: An Ecological Perspective’
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Evelyn Tribble (English, Otago) ‘“To Ease the Burden of the Brain”: Distributed Cognition in Early Modern England’
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Mark Rowlands (Philosophy, Hertfordshire) ‘Body Language: Representation in Action’
14.30-15.30 Rachel Jones (Philosophy, Dundee) ‘The Other Within: Questioning the Privacy of Pain’
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Carl Knappett (Archaeology, Exeter) ‘Scaffolding: between Agents and Artefacts in Archaeology’
17.00-18.00 Lambros Malafouris (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) ‘Hylonoetics: Material Engagement and the Archaeology of Extended Cognition’
Saturday 11th June
9.00-10.00: Andrew Smith (Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, Linguistics, Edinburgh) ‘Learning, Culture and Adaptation: how Language Evolves in Interacting Minds’
10.00-11.00 Stephen Cowley (Psychology, Hertfordshire) ‘Language: a Distributed View’
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Mike Wheeler (Philosophy, Stirling) ‘Interactive Minds, Extended Minds, and Vanishing Minds, or How to Avoid Abandoning Oneself to the Flux’
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Marlon Barrios Solano (Independent dance and new media artist/scholar, USA) ‘Post-Humanist Performance: Intersecting Dance Improvisation, Real-time Multimedia Environments and Embodied/embedded Cognition’
14.30-15.30 Irene McAra-McWilliam (Royal College of Art) 'Ambient Intelligence and the Technological Imaginary'
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Matthew Chalmers (Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Glasgow) 'Interaction with and through Computers'
17.00 Close
Both Andy Clark and Simon Kirby were forced to withdraw from the conference at the ladt minute - Andy Clark due an illness in his family and Simon Kirby due to the birth (on 7th June) of his new baby son. Theor slots were filled by Andrew Smith and Mike Wheeler
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