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 Essentialism Conference

Robert D. Clark Honors College
University of Oregon

 

Friday, February 28: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

8:30-9:00: Arrival and Coffee
9:00-9:30: Introductions

 Session I

Chair: Marjorie Taylor, University of Oregon

9:30-10:30: Susan Gelman, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
                         
Developmental Origins of Essentialism

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-12:00:
Michael Strevens, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
                          
The Myth of the Final Criterion


12:00-2:00: Catered Lunch with Honors College Students in Fir Room, EMU

 Session II

Chair: Chuck Tate, University of Oregon

2:00-3:00: Dave Hamilton, Department of Psychology, UC Santa Barbara
                       
Perceiving Social Groups: Entities and Essences

3:00-4:00:Nick Haslam, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne
                        
Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorders: Medicalization and Stigma

4:00-4:30: Coffee Break

Saturday, March 1: Robert D. Clark Honors College Library

9:00-9:30: Arrival and Coffee

Session III

Chair: Lou Moses, University of Oregon

9:30-10:30: Francisco Gil-White, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
                          
Are Intra-Category Mating and Descent-Based Membership Necessary
                          and Sufficient in the Intuitive Representation of Species Categories?


10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-12:00: Rob Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta
                          
Essentialism in and on the Mind

12:00-1:30: Lunch

Session IV

Chair: Dare Baldwin, University of Oregon

1:30-2:30: Michael Chandler, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
                       
Searching for Essentialism Where the Enlightenment is Brightest: Cross- Cultural Differences in
                       the
Calculus of Individuals and Kinds

2:30-3:30: Susan Carey, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
                       
Essentializing and Naturalizing Human Kinds: Cross-Culturally Universal?

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:40: Discussants' Comments
                 Ellen Markman, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
                 Bertram Malle, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon

4:40-5:00: General Discussion

8:30-10:30: Conference dessert and party at the Excelsior Inn (RSVP to moses@darkwing.uoregon.edu)

Conference Sponsors: Ival McMains, Robert D. Clark Honors College; College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Psychology; Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences.

Inquiries: Lou Moses (moses@darkwing.uoregon.edu) or Dare Baldwin (baldwin@darkwing.uoregon.edu)