PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AISB-95 Workshop on
REACHING FOR MIND:
FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
April 3rd/4th 1995
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at the
The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95)
(Theme: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions)
Halifax Hall
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England
(Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995)
HOSTED BY
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
and
The Department of Computer Science
(University of Sheffield)
Chair:
SE/AN /O NUALL/AIN
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland &
National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Co-Chair:
PAUL MC KEVITT
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, England
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
John Barnden (New Mexico State University, NM, USA)
(& University of Reading, England)
Istvan Berkeley (University of Alberta, Canada)
Mike Brady (Oxford, England)
Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Peter Carruthers (University of Sheffield, England)
Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, USA)
Eric Dietrich (SUNY Binghamton, NY, USA)
Jerry Feldman (ICSI, UC Berkeley, USA)
Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton, England)
James Martin (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Eoghan MacAogain (Instidiud Teangeolaiochta/
Irish Linguistics Institute, Dublin, Ireland)
John Macnamara (McGill University, Canada)
Mike McTear (Universities of Ulster and Koblenz, Germany)
Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Jordan Pollack (Ohio State University, OH, USA)
Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers University, USA)
Ronan Reilly (University College, Dublin, Ireland)
Roger Schank (ILS, Northwestern, USA)
NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England)
Walther v.Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The assumption underlying this workshop is that Cognitive Science (CS)
is in crisis. The crisis manifests itself, as exemplified by the
recent Buffalo summer institute, in a complete lack of consensus among
even the biggest names in the field on whether CS has or indeed should
have a clearly identifiable focus of study; the issue of identifying
this focus is a separate and more difficult one. Though academic
programs in CS have in general settled into a pattern compatible with
classical computationalist CS (Pylyshyn 1984, Von Eckardt 1993),
including the relegation from focal consideration of consciousness,
affect and social factors, two fronts have been opened on this
classical position.
The first front is well-publicised and highly visible. Both Searle
(1992) and Edelman (1992) refuse to grant any special status to
information-processing in explanation of mental process. In contrast,
they argue, we should focus on Neuroscience on the one hand and
Consciousness on the other. The other front is ultimately the more
compelling one. It consists of those researchers from inside CS who
are currently working on consciousness, affect and social factors and
do not see any incompatibility between this research and their vision
of CS, which is that of a Science of Mind (see Dennett 1993, O
Nuallain (in press) and Mc Kevitt and Partridge 1991, Mc Kevitt and
Guo 1994).
References
Dennett, D. (1993) Review of John Searle's "The Rediscovery of the
Mind". The Journal of Philosophy 1993, pp 193-205
Edelman, G.(1992) Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. Basic Books
Mc Kevitt, P. and D. Partridge (1991) Problem description and
hypothesis testing in Artificial Intelligence In ``Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science '90'', Springer-Verlag British
Computer Society Workshop Series, McTear, Michael and Norman Creaney
(Eds.), 26-47, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Also, in
Proceedings of the Third Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science (AI/CS-90), University of Ulster at Jordanstown,
Northern Ireland, EU, September and as Technical Report 224,
Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, GB- EX4 4PT,
Exeter, England, EU, September, 1991.
Mc Kevitt, P. and Guo, Cheng-ming (1995) From Chinese rooms to Irish
rooms: new words on visions for language. Artificial Intelligence
Review Vol. 8. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer-Academic Publishers.
(unabridged version) First published: International Workshop on
Directions of Lexical Research, August, 1994, Beijing, China.
O Nuallain, S (in press) The Search for Mind: a new foundation for
CS. Norwood: Ablex
Pylyshyn, Z.(1984) Computation and Cognition. MIT Press
Searle, J (1992) The rediscovery of the mind. MIT Press.
Von Eckardt, B. (1993) What is Cognitive Science? MIT Press
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
The tension which riddles current CS can therefore be stated thus: CS,
which gained its initial capital by adopting the computational
metaphor, is being constrained by this metaphor as it attempts to
become an encompassing Science of Mind. Papers are invited for this
workshop which:
* Address the central tension
* Propose an overall framework for CS (as attempted, inter alia,
by O Nuallain (in press))
* Explicate the relations between the disciplines which comprise CS.
* Relate educational experiences in the field
* Describe research outside the framework of classical
computationalist CS in the context of an alternative framework
* Promote a single logico-mathematical formalism as a theory of
Mind (as attempted by Harmony theory)
* Disagree with the premise of the workshop
Other relevant topics include:
* Classical vs. neuroscience representations
* Consciousness vs. Non-consciousness
* Dictated vs. emergent behaviour
* A life/Computational intelligence/Genetic algorithms/Connectionism
* Holism and the move towards Zen integration
The workshop will focus on three themes:
* What is the domain of Cognitive Science ?
* Classic computationalism and its limitations
* Neuroscience and Consciousness
PROGRAMME:
MONDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1995
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INTRODUCTION:
9.00 `Introduction'
Se/an /O Nuall/ain and Paul Mc Kevitt
COMPUTATION AND INTENTIONALITY:
(Chair: Brian C. Smith)
9.30 `The foundations of computation'
Brian C. Smith
Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
10.30 Break
11.00 `Machines and consciousness'
Yorick Wilks
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, EU
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS:
(Chair: F.G. Winkler)
11.30 `Meaningful representations? a dynamical systems approach
and some implications for cognitive science'
F.G. Winkler
Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, EU
12.00 `Remembering, rehearsal and empathy'
K. Dautenhahn and T. Christaller
German National Research Centre for Computer Science
Germany, EU
12.45 LUNCH
SEACHING-FOR-MIND:
(Chair: Se/an /O Nuall/ain)
2.00 `Is cognition an autonomous subsystem?'
M.B. Bickhard, Dept of Psychology, Lehigh University
Department of Psychology
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
2.30 `Crisis? what crisis?'
Paul D. Scott
Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, England, EU
3.00 `The search for mind'
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, EU
3.30 Panel Discussion led by Se/an /O Nuall/ain
MEMBERS: Bickhard, Guzeldere, Mc Kevitt, Scott, Smith, Wilks
4.00 Break
COGNITION AND MIND:
(Chair: Guven Guzeldere)
4.30 `Cartesian modularism'
Guven Guzeldere
Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
5.00 'Redescription, information and access'
Terry Dartnall
Computing and Information Technology
Griffith University, Nathan Brisbane, Australia
5.30 Poster session
6.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION
6.30 DINNER AGUS O/ICHE MHA/ITH
TUESDAY, APRIL 4TH, 1995
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INTRODUCTION II:
9.00 `Introduction'
Se/an /O Nuall/ain and Paul Mc Kevitt
ARCHITECTURES FOR CONSCIOUSNESS:
(Chair: Y. Wilks)
9.30 `A neurocognitive model for consciousness'
Newman, B. Baars and S-B Cho.
10.00 `Consciousness and natural language understanding'
Gerard Sabah
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France, EU
10.30 Break
11.00 `Idle Thoughts'
B.F. Katz and N.C. Riley
School of Cognitive and computing Sciences,
University of Sussex, England, EU
COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PERSON:
11.30 `Cognitive Science and two images of the person'
A. Brook, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
12.00 `Cognitive science, consciousness and selfhood'
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
COGNITIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION:
12.30 Panel discussion with (self-selecting) participants invited to present
a five-minute summary of a program in the area which they have
established followed by general discussion.
`Not what is cognitive science rather what is a cognitive scientist?'
Austin et al. Division of Psychology,
University of Hertfordshire, England, EU
12.45 LUNCH
EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY:
(Chair: Terry Dartnall)
2.00 `The lion, the bat and the wardrobe'
Stuart Watt
The Open University, England, EU
2.30 `Foundational anti-representationalism'
Craig Delancey
Indiana University, Illinois, USA
(Chair: Karl MacDorman)
3.00 `Reinventing the square wheel'
P. Kime
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EU
3.30 `The role of the systematicity argument'
K. Aizawa
Dept of Philosophy,
Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA
4.00 Poster session/Break
4.30 'How to ground symbols adaptively'
Karl MacDorman
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, EU
5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION ON REACHING FOR MIND
6.00 DINNER & O/ICHE MHA/ITH
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OTHER SELECTED PAPERS:
`Separability Hypothesis'
B. Chandrasekaran and S. G. Josephson
Laboratory for AI Research, Ohio State University, Columbis, Ohio, USA
`Mind and the Geometry of Systems'
William Hoffman
Professor Emeritus,
University of Arizona at Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, USA
`Computational Philosophy'
Serge Sharoff
Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Georgia, Russia
SELECTED POSTERS:
`The limits of AI: a plea for a culturally mediated alternative'
Alison Adam
Department of Computation
UMIST, Manchester, England, EU
`Not what is cognitive science rather what is a cognitive scientist?'
Austin et al.
Division of Psychology
University of Hertfordshire, England, EU
`Biomolecular cognitive science'
Ajit Narayanan
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter, England, EU
`Situated computation or situated cognition?'
Tom Routen
Department of Computer Science,
De Montford University, Leicester, England, EU
`Cognition, content and the inner code'
Terry Dartnall
Computing and Information Technology
Griffith University, Nathan Brisbane, Australia
`Cognitive science by any other name'
Guven Guzeldere
Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AISB. We intend to
publish a book with IOS Press on this Workshop Proceedings.
ADDRESSES
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University,
IRL- Dublin 9, Dublin
Ireland, EU
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two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful
Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has
three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more
artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which
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extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and
converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a
new wing. The Botanical Gardens and BROOMHILL area are a stone's throw
away.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD:
Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in
Cognitive Systems and has a large reseach group (AINN) studying
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks. It is strongly connected
to the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing
(ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic
staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology
Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit
(AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large
industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the
development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and
robot workstations. Sheffield Philosophy Department has the Hang Seng
Centre for Cognitive Studies, founded in 1992, which runs a
workshop/conference series on a two-year cycle on topics of
interdisciplinary interest. (1992-4: 'Theory of mind'; 1994- 6:
'Language and thought'.) The Department of Automatic Control and
Systems Engineering is conducting research into Neural Networks for
Medical and other applications.
AI and Cognitive Science researchers at Sheffield include Guy Brown,
Peter Carruthers, Malcolm Crawford, Joe Downs, Phil Green, John
Frisby, Robert Gaizauskas, Rob Harrison, Mark Hepple, Zhe Ma, John
Mayhew, Jim McGregor, Paul Mc Kevitt, Bob Minors, Rod Nicolson, Tony
Prescott, Peter Scott, Steve Renals, Noel Sharkey, and Yorick Wilks.
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