From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Oct 25 11:05:57 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9PF5vWF017484 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front3.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l9PF5i2U009791 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 29892 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 15:05:39 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 15:05:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27123 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 15:05:37 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 15:05:37 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3681476 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:36 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 20557 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 15:05:36 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 15:05:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 20128 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 15:05:30 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 15:05:30 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9PF5Uli017440 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l9PF5UZm017439 for cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:30 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200710251505.l9PF5UZm017439@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:30 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: UB CogSci 10/31 L.Stillwaggon: Methodological Continuity in Cog Sci To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4594/Thu Oct 25 08:45:14 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2766 ======================================================================== NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK ======================================================================== Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo presents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liz Stillwaggon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Boydston Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY, and Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are We Practicing What We Preach? Methodological Continuity in Cognitive Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT Philosophers are well aware that our beliefs are often out of sync with how we arrive at them. In this talk, I explore one example of how this philosophical problem manifests in cognitive science. A little over a decade ago, the philosopher of mind Peter Godfrey-Smith introduced the related notions of weak continuity (WC) and methodological continuity (MC), i.e., that cognition is an activity of living systems only, and that cognition ought to be investigated only in the context of living systems, respectively. Although many of us might be willing to grant WC, we would be wary of advocating MC, because doing so constitutes a fundamental rejection of the project of artificial intelligence. I examine some investigations into the nature of cognition from analytic philosophy, (soft) artificial life, and robotics to determine to what extent they respect (or breach) the principle of MC, and conclude by proposing a methodological guideline that is intended to do justice to both WC and MC. Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 If the future resembles the past, then coffee will almost certainly not be served, but cookies are very slightly more likely :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ or contact: William J. Rapaport Colloquium Chair, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy & Linguistics 201 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo Restaurant Guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ Good Things about Buffalo: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalo.html From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Oct 29 17:15:10 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9TLFAkM004339 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:15:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l9TLF1fX020804 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 12862 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2007 21:14:56 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Oct 2007 21:14:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 994 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2007 21:14:47 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Oct 2007 21:14:47 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3772664 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:14:47 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 20317 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2007 21:14:47 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Oct 2007 21:14:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 8597 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2007 20:15:21 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Oct 2007 20:15:21 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9TKF48N001543; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:15:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l9TKF3jj001542; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:15:03 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200710292015.l9TKF3jj001542@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:15:03 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: CogSci 10/31 L.Stillwaggon, Methodological Continuity in Cog Sci Comments: To: JShook@centerforinquiry.net, cogsci-local-list@listserv.buffalo.edu To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC--Metrics: ares.cse.buffalo.edu 1356; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4624/Mon Oct 29 12:32:38 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2765 ======================================================================== THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK ======================================================================== Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo presents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liz Stillwaggon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Boydston Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY and Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are We Practicing What We Preach? Methodological Continuity in Cognitive Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT Philosophers are well aware that our beliefs are often out of sync with how we arrive at them. In this talk, I explore one example of how this philosophical problem manifests in cognitive science. A little over a decade ago, the philosopher of mind Peter Godfrey-Smith introduced the related notions of weak continuity (WC) and methodological continuity (MC), i.e., that cognition is an activity of living systems only, and that cognition ought to be investigated only in the context of living systems, respectively. Although many of us might be willing to grant WC, we would be wary of advocating MC, because doing so constitutes a fundamental rejection of the project of artificial intelligence. I examine some investigations into the nature of cognition from analytic philosophy, (soft) artificial life, and robotics to determine to what extent they respect (or breach) the principle of MC, and conclude by proposing a methodological guideline that is intended to do justice to both WC and MC. Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 If the future resembles the past, then coffee will almost certainly not be served, but cookies are very slightly more likely :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ or contact: William J. Rapaport Colloquium Chair, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy & Linguistics 201 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo Restaurant Guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ Good Things about Buffalo: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalo.html From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Oct 31 09:36:15 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9VDaAVu008041 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front3.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l9VDa0H3065204 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 18193 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2007 12:47:18 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 12:47:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 16220 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2007 12:47:16 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 12:47:16 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3868151 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:16 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 23772 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2007 12:47:16 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 12:47:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 13677 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2007 12:47:15 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 12:47:15 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9VClFJI005790; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l9VClFUC005789; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:15 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200710311247.l9VClFUC005789@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:15 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. 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Rapaport" Subject: CogSci TODAY: L.Stillwaggon Methodological Continuity in Cog Sci Comments: To: cogsci-local-list@listserv.buffalo.edu To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-dcc.uncw.edu-Metrics: ares.cse.buffalo.edu 1201; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4646/Wed Oct 31 06:41:08 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2766 ======================================================================== TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY ======================================================================== Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo presents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liz Stillwaggon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Boydston Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY and Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are We Practicing What We Preach? Methodological Continuity in Cognitive Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT Philosophers are well aware that our beliefs are often out of sync with how we arrive at them. In this talk, I explore one example of how this philosophical problem manifests in cognitive science. A little over a decade ago, the philosopher of mind Peter Godfrey-Smith introduced the related notions of weak continuity (WC) and methodological continuity (MC), i.e., that cognition is an activity of living systems only, and that cognition ought to be investigated only in the context of living systems, respectively. Although many of us might be willing to grant WC, we would be wary of advocating MC, because doing so constitutes a fundamental rejection of the project of artificial intelligence. I examine some investigations into the nature of cognition from analytic philosophy, (soft) artificial life, and robotics to determine to what extent they respect (or breach) the principle of MC, and conclude by proposing a methodological guideline that is intended to do justice to both WC and MC. Wednesday, 31 October 2007; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 If the future resembles the past, then coffee will almost certainly not be served, but cookies are very slightly more likely :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ or contact: William J. Rapaport Colloquium Chair, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy & Linguistics 201 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo Restaurant Guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ Good Things about Buffalo: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalo.html