<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">GENERAL INFORMATION<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Interactivist Summer Institute 2015</span><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">June 20 - 23, 2015<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></span></p><div style="line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" style="line-height: 1.22em;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The Interactivist Summer Institute is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of understanding of life, mind, and cognition. There is a growing recognition - across many disciplines - that phenomena of life and mind, including cognition and representation, are emergents of far-from-equilibrium, interactive, autonomous systems. In such a view, mind and biology, mind and agent, are re-united. The classical treatment of cognition and representation within a formalist framework of encodingist assumptions is increasingly recognized as a fruitless maze of blind alleys. From neurobiology to robotics, from cognitive science to philosophy of mind and language, dynamic and interactive alternatives are being explored. Dynamic systems approaches, enactivist and autonomous agent research join in the effort.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The interactivist model offers a theoretical approach to matters of life and mind, ranging from evolutionary- and neuro-biology (including the emergence of biological function) through representation, perception, motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, language, action theory, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology, and ethics. This work has developed interfaces with studies of central nervous system functioning, the ontology of process, autonomous agents, philosophy of science, and all areas of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science that address the person.<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The conference will involve both tutorials addressing central parts and aspects of the interactive model, and papers addressing current work of relevance to this general approach. This will be our eighth Summer Institute:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 2001</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2003</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Clemson University, South Carolina 2005</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The American University in Paris, Paris 2007</span><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 2009</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece 2011</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.25in; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fl 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The Summer Institute is a biennial meeting where those sharing the core interests and ideas of interactivism will meet and discuss their work, try to reconstruct its historical roots, put forward current research in different fields that fits the interactivist framework, and define research topics for prospective graduate students. People working in philosophy of mind, linguistics, social sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, theoretical biology, and other fields related to the sciences of mind are invited to send their paper submission or statement of interest for participation to the organizers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2015/index.htm" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;">http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2015/index.htm</a><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"></o></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 15px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;"> </o></p><div>Mark</div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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