PRESTOPUNDIT

Conference Program:

"Dewey, Hayek and Embodied Cognition: Experience, Beliefs and Rules"
-- 3rd Annual Symposium on the Foundations of the Behavioral Sciences

American Institute for Economic Research
Division Street, Great Barrington, Mass.
July 18-20, 2003

Keynote Speaker:

Gerald Edelman “Naturalizing Consciousness: From Hard Science to Human Science” [Abstract]

Participants in Plenary Sessions:

Antonio R. Damasio (TBA))

Jean-Pierre Dupuy “Intersubjectivity and Embodiment”

Rodolfo Llinás (TBA)

Douglass C. North “Understanding the Process of Economic Change”

Richard Posner “The Epistemological and Policy Views of Dewey and Hayek”

John R. Searle (TBA)

Vernon Smith “Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics” [Abstract]

Invited Participants:

Bruce Caldwell “Hayek, The Sensory Order, and Psychology”

Thomas C. Dalton “Value, Belief and Inquiry: A Deweyan Perspective” [Abstract]

Kurt Dopfer and Jason Potts “Embodied Cognition in an Evolving Economic Environment: Genetic Invariants and Adoptable Rules”

Edward Feser “Naturalism, Evolution and Hayek's Philosophy of Mind” [Abstract]

Geoffrey M. Hodgson “Instinct and Habit before Reason: Dewey, Hayek and Veblen”

J. Rogers Hollingsworth “Are There Regularities in the Cognitive and Organizational Properties which Facilitate Major Discoveries in Basic Science”

Mark Johnson “How the Embodied Mind Thinks Disembodied Thoughts”

Elisabeth Krecké and Carine Krecké “Law and Experience”

Howard Margolis “Merging Rational Choice with Cognitive Arguments: Some Evidence from Public Goods Experiments”

Bart Nooteboom “Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm”

Mark Perlman “Competing and Complementary Authority Systems” [Table 1][Table 2][Abstract]

John Pickering “Signs and Beliefs: Hayek's Inquiry and Biosemiotics” [Abstract]

Salvatore Rizzello “Knowledge as a Path-dependence Process: Microfoundations and Economic Implications”

Frank X. Ryan “Neuroscience and Dewey’s Critique of Behaviorism”

Ulrich Witt “The Cognitive Underpinnings of the Generation of Novelty”

Contributed Papers:

Timothy L. Adamson “Judgment as Measurement: The Flesh of Thought” [Abstract]

Avner Ben-Ner and Massoud Stephane “The Salience of Different Attributes of Identity: Experimental Evidence” [Abstract]

Harry Binswanger “Consciousness: An Objectivist Approach” [Abstract]

Stephan Boehm “Computation, Markets and Central Planning: The View from Hayek and Searle” [Abstract]

Paul Bohan Broderick “Should Neuroscience Lead to a Reconstruction in Philosophy?” [Abstract]

William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade “Sensory Order and Other Natural
Classifier Systems” [Abstract]

Adam Gifford, Jr. “Meaning, Action and Uncertainty” [Abstract]

Nancy J. Holland “The Knot of Nature: Behavioral/Perceptual Holism in Dewey, Edelman, and Merleau-Ponty” [Abstract]

Elias L. Khalil “The Two Faces of Beliefs: Newcomb Paradox, Book of Job, Chain Letters, and Other Paradoxes of Rationality” [Abstract]

Janet T. Landa and Michael T. Ghiselin “The Bioeconomics of Folk and Scientific Classification” [Abstract]

Gregory P. La Blanc “Embodied Cognition, Psychoneuroimmunology, and the Placebo Response” [Abstract]

Richard N. Langlois “Embodied Cognition and the Economics of Organization” [Abstract]

David Mitch “Professional Education as Embodied Cognition: Legal and Medical Training in Historical Perspective” [Abstract]

Julie A. Nelson “Freedom, Reason, and More: Feminist Economics and Human Development” [Abstract]

Stephen O'Sullivan “The Knot of Nature: What Tought? Whose Mnd? Pragmatic and PenomenologicalResolutions of the Problem of Mental Individuation” [Abstract]

Harold Wolozin “The Unconscious and Emotion in Economic Decision-making:
Convergent Voices” [Abstract]

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www.brc-aier.org

or contact:

Elias L. Khalil, BRC, AIER, PO Box 1000, Great Barrington, MA 01230
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