Connectionists: The Interactivist Summer Institute 2011

[Mark H. Bickhard]

Interactivist Summer Institute 2011
July 29 - August 1, 2011
University of the Aegean
Syros, Greece

Join us in 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. Mind and biology, mind and agent, are being re- 
united. The classical treatment of cognition and representation within  
a formalist framework of encodingist assumptions is widely 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 and autonomous agent research join in the effort.

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 sixth  
Summer Institute; the first was in 2001 at Lehigh University,  
Bethlehem, PA, USA, the second in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the  
third in 2005 at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, the fourth  
in 2007 at The American University in Paris, and the fifth in 2009 at  
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. The Summer Institute is a biennial  
meeting where those sharing the core 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.


http://www.lehigh.edu/%7einteract/isi2011web/index.htm


Mark H. Bickhard
Lehigh University
17 Memorial Drive East
Bethlehem, PA 18015
mark at bickhard.name
http://bickhard.ws/

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