French Cognitive Science Conference
Stevan Harnad
harnad at Princeton.EDU
Fri Aug 12 23:53:54 EDT 1994
From: payette at uranus.atoci.uqam.ca
Subject: French International Cognitive Science Conference
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Seventh Colloquium of the Jacques Cartier Center
Lyon, France.
THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES: FROM COMPUTATIONAL MODELS
TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
under the aegis of:
the Pole Rhones-Alpes of the Cognitive Sciences,
Programme Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Cognisciences,CNRS
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Universite de Montreal
Universite Joseph Fourier
Universite Claude Bernard
Scientific committee:
Denis Fisette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec)
Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon)
Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, Quebec)
Daniel Payette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec)
Vincent Rialle (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble)
Coordination in North America: Daniel Payette and Denis Fisette
Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Dpt de Philosophie, Dpt Psychology; C.P.
8888,Succ A, Montreal (Quebec) H3C-3P8, Canada;
E.mail : payette at uranus.atoci.uqam.ca;
tel (+514) 987 8418; Fax: (+514) 9876721
Coordination in Europe: Vincent Rialle
Universite J. Fourier, Labo.TIMC-IMAG, Faculte de Medecine, 38706 LaTronche
Cedex E.mail: Vincent.Rialle at imag.fr;
Tel. (+33) 76 63 71 87; Fax. (+33) 76 51 8667
DATES: Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994
CONFERENCE SITE:
Amphitheatre CHARLES BERAUDIER. Conseil Regional RHONE-ALPES,78 route de
Paris 69751 CHARBONNIERES-les-BAINS. France
*Talks will only be given by invited speakers. (Simultaneous
French-English and English-French will be provided).
THEME OF COLLOQUIUM
The modeling of mental processes in the various human cognitive
activities has generated increasing interest in the scientific world
today. Cognitive models, cognitive simulations, auto-organization,
adaptation, emergence, genetic selection, Darwinian mentalism and
enaction are active research topics in neurological and psychological
theory.
The cognitive sciences offer a continuum of research extending from the
engineering sciences to the philosophy of mind, including the
neurosciences, cognitive psychology, linguistics, semantics, semiotics
and artificial intelligence. Three subconferences will organize
themselves around the following major complementary themes: (i)
Modeling (cognitive and brain functions), (ii) Philosophy of Mind and
Epistemology, and (iii) Applications (AI, technical and computational
engineering).
(i) Modeling is a point of intersection for all these specialties
because it includes the modeling of functions and dysfunctions of the
central nervous system, the neurocomputer sciences, the modeling of
psychocognitive and mental processes, the emergence of intentional
structure on the basis of biological structure, enaction, genetic
algorithms, neural networks, artificial "life," etc.
(ii) The philosophical and epistemological subcomponent poses questions
like the following: Can we elaborate mathematical models of the mind
and use them to describe and explain human behavior? Are we aiming
toward a mathematical model of the mind? Can we capture the formal
principles of the development and emergence of cognition? Can we
technologically recreate thought? Is the computational symbolic
paradigm, which has imposed itself for the last decades, still a
powerful conceptual tool or is it proving too reductionistic and if so,
how? What is the epistemological status of, for example, the
alternative proposed by the parallel distributed model to the
computational models of classical cognitivism? What is the relation os
the modeling activity of the cognitive and neurosciences and human
experience?
(iii) The applications subconference will consider practical domains in
which scientific results have been applied in the treatment of
language, the automated cognitive analyses of textual documents (an
intersection of linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial
intelligence), aids to decision making, applications in sensory
information processing, etc.
PREPROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, 30 November 1994
8h15 - 8h30
Allocution d'accueil du Conseil Regional
8h30 - 9h
Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble)
Introduction
SESSION 1 : Modelisation neuro et psycho-cognitives
9h - 9h-30
Jean Francois Le Ny (Universite Paris-Sud, psychologie cognitive)
Pourquoi les modeles cognitifs devraient-ils etre calculatoires ?
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, neurosciences)
Le cerveau representationnel
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
10h45 - 11h15
Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers University, USA, psychologie cognitive)
What's in the Mind? A Computational Approach to a Ancient Question.
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Stevan Harnad (Princeton University, psychologie cognitive)
Modeles, mobiles et mentalite
12h00 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Michel Imbert (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, neurosciences)
De l'etude du cerveau a la comprehension de l'esprit
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
Guy Tiberghien (Univers Pierre Mendes-France,Grenoble,psychologie
cognitive)
Connexionnisme: stade supreme du behaviorisme ?
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Jacques Demongeot (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, neurosciences)
Memoire d'evocation dans les reseaux de neurones
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Bennet Murdock (Universite de Toronto, psychologie cognitive)
THE ROLE OF FORMAL MODELS IN MEMORY RESEARCH
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Robert Proulx (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, neuro-psychologie)
Plausibilite biologique de certains systemes de categorisation adaptative a
base de reseaux de neurones
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
TUESDAY, December 1
Session 2 : Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
9h - 9h30
Elisabeth Pacherie (Universite de Provence, CNRS & CREA, Paris)
Domaines cognitifs et modularite
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Pierre Livet (Universite de Provence & CREA, Paris, philosophie)
Categorisation et connexionnisme
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
Normand Lacharite (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, epistemologie)
10h45 - 11h15
Conflits de modeles en theorie de la representation
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Peter Gardenfors (Lund University, Suede, philosophie)
Language and the Evolution of Mind
12h15 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Andy Clark (Washington University, philosophie)
Wild Cognition: Putting Representation in its Place
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
Kevin Mulligan (Universite de Geneve, Suisse, philosophie)
Constance perceptuelle et contenu spatial
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Ronald De Sousa (Universite de Toronto, epistemologie)
La rationalite: un concept normatif ou descriptif ?
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, philosophie)
Rationalite et naturalisme
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Joelle Proust (CNRS & CREA, Paris, philosophie)
Un modele naturaliste de l'intentionnalite
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
FRIDAY, December 2
Session 3: Modelisation IA, Traitement du langage, et semantique cognitive
Paul Jorion (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, psychologie cognitive)
9h - 9h30
Modelisation du reseau mnesique : une utilisation minimaliste de l'IA
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Bernard Amy (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, connexionnisme)
La place des reseaux neuronaux dans l'IA
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
10h45 - 11h15
Paul Bourgine (CEMAGREF, Paris-Antony, IA-modelisation)
Co-evolution et emergence du soi
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Paul Pietroski (Universite McGill, Canada, philosophie)
What can linguistics teach us about belief
12h00 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Le paradigme hermeneutique et la mediation semiotique
Francois Rastier (Institut National de la Langue Francaise, CNRS,
linguistique computationnelle)
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
L'impact des perspectives cognitives dans le traitement de l'information
Jean-Guy Meunier (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, semiotique)
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Guy Denhiere (Universite Paris VIII, psychologie cognitive)
Isabelle Tapiero (Universite Lyon II, psychologie cognitive)
La signification comme structure emergente : de l'acces au lexique a la
comprehension de textes
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Paul Freedman (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montreal, IA)
La vision artificielle: le traitement intelligent de documents
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Denis Vernant (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble, philosophie)
L'intelligence de la machine et sa capacite dialogique
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
18h00: END OF COLLOQUIUM
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