Subject: special stream at cognitive society

special " stream " at the 20th annual meeting of the cognitive science society madison , wisconsin , august 1 - 4 , 1998 co - chairs : sean o nuallain dublin city university , dublin , ireland & national research council , ottawa , canada ( sonualla @ compapp . dcu . ie ) robert l . campbell department of psychology , clemson university , clemson , sc usa ( campber @ clemson . edu ) what the stream is about though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have always been prevalent in cognitive science - - they arise whenever an attempt is made to define cognitive science as a discipline - - they have frequently been downrated by researchers , in favor of empirical work that remains safely within the confines of established theories and methods . our goal to is redress the balance . we encourage participants in this stream to raise and discuss such questions as : * the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind * the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures that encode structures out in the environment * the consequences of excluding emotions , consciousness , and the social realm from the purview of cognitive studies * the consequences of newell and simon 's " scientific bet " that developmental constraints did not have to be studied until detailed models of adult cognition had been constructed and tested * the consequences of attempting to reconcile contemporary psychology ( which includes developmental psychology ) with formal linguistics of the chomskyan variety ( which appears to be resolutely anti-developmental if not anti-psychological ) * the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic a wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome , so long as the presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the proponents of perspectives that are different from their own : * vygotskian approaches to culture and cognition * dynamic systems theories * piagetian constructivism * interactivism * situated cognition * neuroscience accounts such as those of edelman and grossberg * accounts of emergence in general , and emergent knowledge in particular * perception and action robotics * functional linguistics * genetic algorithms * information processing * connectionism * evolutionary epistemology contributors should make their submissions to the cognitive science society , following the standard rules for formatting their papers ( if you have not received the hard-copy call for papers , check the css web site at http : / / www . umich . edu / ~ cogsci / cogsci . html ) . the deadline is february 6 , 1998 . contributors should attach a * separate cover page , * indicating that their submissions are intended for the stream chaired by sean o nuallain and robert campbell . otherwise papers will be reviewed by cognitive science society 's regular reviewers , and are not likely to get a sympathetic response . the " stream " will consist of at least two paper sessions ( a total of 8 papers , 20 minutes each ) at the cognitive science society . * if we get enough good submissions , we can request more paper sessions * . all submissions to our stream will be reviewed by * our special reviewers * . besides the co-chairs , these are : ken aizawa ( kaizawa @ beta . centenary . edu ) mark bickhard ( mhb0 @ lehigh . edu ) selmer bringsjord ( brings @ rpi . edu ) andrew brook ( abrook @ ccs . carleton . ca ) brian cox ( psybdc @ vaxc . hofstra . edu ) terry dartnall ( terryd @ cit . gu . edu . au ) mary hegarty ( hegarty @ condor . psych . ucsb . edu ) ken livingston ( livingst @ vaxsar . vassar . edu ) eoghan mac aogain ( eoghan @ ite . ie ) karl f . macdorman ( kfm @ gull . me . es . osaka-u . ac . jp ) paul mc kevitt ( pmck @ kom . auc . dk ) ronan g . reilly ( rreilly @ ollamh . ucd . ie ) tony veale ( tveale @ compapp . dcu . ie ) robert l . campbell professor , psychology brackett hall 410a clemson university clemson , sc 29634-1511 usa phone ( 864 ) 656-4986 fax ( 864 ) 656-0358 http : / / hubcap . clemson . edu / ~ campber / index . html
