13th October: Disciplinary Perspectives on Causal Cognition
9:00 Welcome Address
Ulrike Davy (ZiF Director)
Opening Address
Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller (convenors)
9:30 Causation and Reliability
David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 The Role of Epistemic State Understanding in Early Causal Learning
Tamar Kushnir (Cornell University)
12:00 Agents and Causes
Michael Waldmann (University of Göttingen)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 What are we to make of Spontaneous Explicit Attributions of Causation?
Maurice Bloch (London School of Economics)
15:00 Force Dynamics as a Generalization over Causation
Leonard Talmy (University of Buffalo)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 tba
Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh)
17:30 Trauma and Amnesia – A Cultural Creation?
Hans Markowitsch (University of Bielefeld)
18:45 Dinner at ZiF
14th October: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
9:00 Cognition goes Social - Promises and Challenges
Wolfgang Prinz (MPI Leipzig)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Panel:
Obstacles and Options for Cross-Disciplinary Cooperation
in the Cognitive Sciences
Chair: Birgit Röttger-Rössler (Free University Berlin)
Panellists: Josep Call (MPI Leipzig)
Markus Knauff (University of Gießen)
Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen)
Günther Schlee (MPI Halle/Saale)
Robert Turner (MPI Leipzig)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Plenary Discussion:
Causality in Medicine and Magic
Chairs: York Hagmayer (King’s College London) and
Thomas Widlok (University of Nijmegen)
15:30 Plenary Discussion:
Agency, Social Interaction and Causality
Chair: Markus Werning (University of Bochum)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Key Note:
The Cultural Nature of Causal Cognition
Douglas Medin (Northwestern University)
19:30 Dinner at Wernings Weinstube