Culture and the Innate Mind

Workshop #3 – Inn and Conference Center, College Park Maryland

All sessions take place in 0109 (Basement, East Wing)

Friday, 7 March 2003

6:00 - 7:30 Session 1

Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, North Carolina - Chapel Hill): Confessions of an Anti-Nativist.

7:30 - 9:00 Dinner - Chasen Family Room (1st Floor, East Wing)

9:00 - 11.30 Bar - Oracle Bar (West Wing; pay for self)

Saturday, 9 March 2002

8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast for Residents - Mount Claire Cafe (1st Floor, East Wing)

9:30 - 11:00 Session 2

John Haidt (Psychology, Virginia): How culturally variable morals might be built out of innate and universal intuitions.

11:00 - 11:45 Coffee - Maryland Community Gallery foyer

11:45 - 1:15 Session 3

Rob Boyd (Anthropology, UCLA): Culture as an Adaptation, and Adaptations for Culture.

1:15 - 3:00 Lunch - President's Room (1st Floor, East Wing)

3:00 - 4:30 Session 4

Joe Henrich (Anthropology, Emory): A Cultural Species.

4:30 - 5:15 Coffee - Maryland Community Gallery foyer

5:15 - 6:45 Session 5

Keith Frankish (Philosophy, Open): Innateness, Culture, and the Two-Level Mind.

7:00 - 8:30 Dinner - Chasen Family Room (1st Floor, East Wing)

8:30 - 11.30 Bar - Oracle Bar (West Wing; pay for self)

Sunday, 10 March 2002

8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast for Residents - Mount Claire Cafe (1st Floor, East Wing)

9:30 - 11:00 Session 6

Elizabeth Spelke (Psychology, Harvard): Language and Thought.

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee - Maryland Community Gallery foyer

11:30 - 1:00 Session 7

Scott Atran (Anthropology, Michigan and CNRS): Religion's Evolutionary Landscape:

Counter-intuition, Commitment, Compassion, Communion.

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch - President's Room (1st Floor, East Wing)

2:00 Depart

Additional Participants:

Murat Aydede (Philosophy, Florida)

George Botterill (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Peter Carruthers (Philosophy, Maryland)

Sue Dwyer (Philosophy, UMBC)

Luc Faucher (Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal)

Simon Fitzpatrick (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Patricia Greenspan (Philosophy, Maryland)

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (Philosophy, American University of Beirut)

Stephen Laurence (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Edouard Machery (Philosophy, Sorbonne and Rutgers)

Dominic Murphy (Philosophy, Caltech)

Paul Pietroski (Philosophy, Maryland)

Georges Rey (Philosophy, Maryland)

Bradley Rives (Philosophy, Maryland)

Michael Siegal (Psychology, Sheffield)

Tom Simpson (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Chandra Sripada (Philosophy, Rutgers)

Steve Stich (Philosophy, Rutgers)

Benedicte Veillet (Philosophy, Maryland)

James Walkup (Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers)

Travel expenses claims and travel receipts:

• for US paper-givers plus Aydede: to Peter Carruthers;
• for other US distance travelers: to Stephen Stich;
• for all UK travelers: to Stephen Laurence.

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