Workshop: Representation in Cognitively Driven Simulation

Lakatos Award: Workshop and Award Lecture on 9 March 2023

Part 1: Workshop

Workshop: Representation in Cognitively Driven Simulation
Room LAK2.06, Lakatos Building, LSE

How in reasoning and planning does compositional conceptual thought interact with other cognitive and perceptual systems, including through simulation, imagination and prospection?

Chair: Jonathan Birch (LSE)

11.00 Welcome (Jonathan Birch) and introduction to the workshop (Nick Shea)

11.30-13.00 Fabrizio Calzavarini (University of Turin): The Conceptual System and the Supramodal Brain

13.00-14.00 Lunch break (attendees make their own arrangements)

14.00-15.30 Steven Frankland (Princeton): Concepts & Compositionality in Biological and Artificial Systems

Tea /coffee (provided for all attendees)

16.00-17.30 Liz Camp (Rutgers): Way-finding and Perspective-Shifting: Toward a Non-Arithmetic Theory of Creative Cognition

Part 2: Award Lecture and Reception

18.00-19.15 Lakatos Award Lecture: Nicholas Shea: Making Good Decisions with a Very Human Brain
(Old Theatre, LSE)

19.30-20.30 Lakatos Award Reception (Shaw Library, 6^th floor of the Old Building)