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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
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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
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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
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Saturday, March
1: Robert D. Clark Honors College Library
9:00-9:30:
Arrival and Coffee
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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
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12:00-1:30: Lunch
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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)
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