The Structure of the Innate Mind

Third workshop, Mt Washington Conference Center, Baltimore

8-10 March 2002

Program

Friday 8 March 2002 –

5.30-7.00 Session 1 – Room 200

Norbert Hornstein (Linguistics, Maryland)

7.30-9.00 Dinner in Hayward Dining Room

9.00-11.00 Bar in Games Room (guests pay for selves)

Saturday 9 March –

8.00-9.00 Breakfast Buffet in Hayward Dining Room

or

9.00-9.30 Continental Breakfast in Room 200

9.30-11.00 Session 2 – Room 200

Elizabeth Spelke (Psychology, Harvard)

11.00-11.45 coffee – Room 200

11.45-1.15 Session 3 – Room 200

Susan Gelman (Psychology, Michigan) ‘Two insights about naming in the preschool child.’

1.15-3.00 lunch in Hayward Dining Room

3.00-4.30 Session 4 – Room 200

John Tooby (Anthropology, USCB) ‘Motivation and the Debate on Representational and Non-representational Innateness.’

4.30-5.15 coffee – Room 200

5.15-6.45 Session 5 – Room 200

Steven Pinker (Linguistics, MIT) ‘The Blank Slate, The Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine.’

7.00-8.30 Dinner in Hayward Dining Room

8.30-11.30 Bar in Games Room (guests pay for selves)

Sunday 10 March –

8.00-9.00 Breakfast Buffet in Hayward Dining Room

or

9.00-9.30 Continental Breakfast in Room 200

9.30-11.00 Session 6 – Room 200

Gary Marcus (Psychology, NYU) ‘Plasticity and innateness’

11.00-11.30 coffee – Room 200

11.30-1.00 Session 7 – Room 200

Helen Tager-Flusberg (Psychology, Boston) ‘What neuro-developmental disorders can reveal about cognitive architecture’

1.00-2.00 lunch in Hayward Dining Room

2.00-3.30 Session 8 – Room 200

Paul Bloom (Psychology Yale) ‘Word learning as a test-case for nativism’

3.30 coffee & depart

Also attending (resident):

Stephen Stich (Rutgers, Philosophy)

Gary Bartlett (Rutgers, Philosophy)

Kevan Edwards (Rutgers, Philosophy)

Edouard Machery (Rutgers & Paris, Philosophy)

Chandra Sripada (Rutgers, Philosophy)

Mark Baker (Rutgers, Linguistics)

Stephen Laurence (Sheffield, Philosophy)

Tom Simpson (Sheffield, Philosophy)

Michael Siegal (Sheffield, Psychology)

Jules Davidoff  (London, Psychology)

Richard Samuels (King’s London, Philosophy)

Peter Carruthers (Maryland, Philosophy)

Patricia Greenspan (Maryland, Philosophy)

Georges Rey (Maryland, Philosophy)

(non-resident):

Paul Pietroski (Maryland, Philosophy) 

Travel expenses: Rutgers Graduate students, present receipts to Stephen Stich; visitors from the UK, present receipts to Stephen Laurence; all others send receipts to Peter Carruthers.

To go to the website for the entire project on *Innateness and the Structure of the Mind* click here