In this interdisciplinary conference, we bring together philosophers, comparative psychologists, and cognitive scientists from a range of disciplines to discuss their recent work on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of syntax, in order to make progress in our understanding of these fundamental issues.

Online attendance will also be possible.

In person attendance is free, although you are requested to register in advance because capacity is limited. To register, please contact giulia.palazzolo.1@warwick.ac.uk.

Confirmed speakers:

Nick Chater (University of Warwick)

Cas Coopmans (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Cathy Crockford (ISC Marc Jeannerod)

Olga Feher (University of Warwick)

Richard Moore (University of Warwick)

Nirmalangshu Mukherji (Delhi University)

Ross Pain (University of Bristol)

Giulia Palazzolo (University of Warwick)

Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong)

Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)

Simon W. Townsend (University of Warwick and University of Zurich)

"Ryle's Pragmatism: A Gift from Margaret MacDonald"

Cheryl Misak (Toronto)

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

WMA Mini-Workshop on Emotion, Time, and Reason

2-3.30pm - Michaele Ombrato (Oxford) title TBC

4-6pm - Jean Moritz Müller (Tübingen) "Are Attitudes Intentional Under a Description?"

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

Weds. 13th March  

MEEP Mini-Workshop on Helping and Group Membership

2-3.30pm: Josef Perner (Salzburg) Title TBC

4-6pm: Harriet Over (York) Title TBC     

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk            

CANCELLED: This event has been cancelled. HOWEVER, keep the slot of 2pm-6pm free in your diary. We are looking into the possibility of doing something else during this time and will circulate a message if that materialises.

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Weds 5th June           

MEEP Seminar (location TBC)

4-6pm:“On the Metaphysical and Epistemic Contrasts between Real and Fake Testimony”

Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford)

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Keynotes:         

Matt Soteriou (KCL)

Léa Salje (Leeds)

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

Weds 26th June          

Mini-Workshop on Address

Speakers will include Naomi Eilan, Richard Moore, Giulia Palazzolo.

Full programme TBC.

Contact: giulia.palazzolo.1@warwick.ac.uk

Roberta Locatelli (Tübingen) - "Understanding ADHD and Bridging the Gap Between the Neurodiversity Model and the Disorder Model"

14:30 - 16:00 Craig French (Nottingham) - "Experiences of Derealization: A Naïve Realist Account"

16:30 - 18:00 Joe Cunningham (Nottingham) - "What is the Deep Self?"

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

14:30 - 16:00 Richard Moore - Three Ways of Addressing Others

16:30 - 18:00 Naomi Eilan - Address and The Second Person

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

Please join us for dinner and (a) drink to celebrate making it (almost) to the end of term 1 2024/25!

Please RSVP here!

contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

Giulia Martina (Dortmund) - "Joint Attention to Flavour"

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

On December 9th my group will host a talk from Paula Rubio Fernandez (https://www.mpi.nl/people/rubio-fernandez-paula). Paula has in recent years done important work on the relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind, on cross cultural differences in the organisation of intersubjective space, and on the collaborative foundations of reference.

Her talk will take place at 4pm on December 9th in Lib2 in the library. It's a large room and the talk is out of term time, so please feel free to share details of the talk with anyone who might be interested.
All are welcome. Title and abstract are below.
All the best;

Richard

The Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground

Paula Rubio-Fernandez

Human communication is built around interlocutors’ common ground (CG), or the information they assume to share. Despite having been the focus of intense interdisciplinary research for more than 60 years, we do not yet understand how CG works, or even what exactly it is. In this talk I will introduce a new research program that is essential to understanding CG: I propose to study CG as a product of cultural evolution. This approach requires identifying (i) those cognitive capacities that are required for the emergence of CG in human cognition, and (ii) how those capacities interact in (a) the development of CG through children’s social learning across cultures; (b) its formation through social interaction across the lifespan, and (c) its management in conversation across languages. I hypothesize that forming and using CG is a complex human ability that emerges from the interaction of three cognitive capacities — joint attention, shared memory, and the use of reference systems — under a rationality principle. This is what I informally call the Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground, which could also be described as a naïve model of rational memory.