Workshop on mental simulation

11th December 2008

convento delle Terese

Aula D

 

 

organizers

Vittorio Girotto (vgirotto@iuav.it),

Paolo Legrenzi (legrenzi@iuav.it)

 

 

program

10.30 - 11.30

Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona),

On the folk attribution of consciousness

 

11.30 - 12.10

Cristina Meini (University of Eastern Piedmont at Vercelli)

and Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin),

How pretense can really be meta-representational

 

12.10 - 13.30

lunch break

 

13.30 - 14.10

Vittorio Girotto (University IUAV of Venice),

Cognitive empathy and the simulation of mental alternatives

 

14.10 - 14.50

Alfredo Paternoster (University San Raffaele, Milan),

On the simulative theories of language understanding

 

14.50 - 15.50

Michael Siegal (University of Trieste and University of Sheffield),

Is language the key to reasoning? Evidence from deafness and aphasia