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Moderators
·Roberto Casati
·Gloria Origgi
Guest Panel
·Andre Abath
·Erkki Ahlström
·Jeannes Aptekmans
·Sarah Bendaoud
·Arnaud Blanchard
·Paul Bloom
·Mario Borillo
·Amita Chatterjee
·Camelia-Mihaelas Dascalus
·Frédérique de Vignemont
·Jérôme Dokic
·Julien Dutant
·Karine Duvignau
·Manuel Gatto
·Valeria Giardino
·Valentina Gliozzi
·Emmanuelle Glon
·Donald Glowinski
·Bastien Guerry
·Jose Luis Guijarro
·Damian Justo
·Basileios Kroustallis
·Gilles Lafargue
·Saadi Lahlou
·Frédéric Landragin
·Florent Levillain
·Pascal Ludwig
·Erika Marchetto
·Alda Mari
·Olivier Massin
·Milena Nuti
·Gloria Origgi
·Elisabeth Pacherie
·Nausicaa Pouscoulous
·Daniel Povinelli
·Zenon Pylyshyn
·Susrut Ray
·François Recanati
·Giacomo Romano
·Pierre Steiner
·John Stewart
·Valérie Tartas
·Giuliano Torrengo
·Richard Zuber
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Various notions of material objects play a key role in the study of different sectors of cognition. Infants appear to parse the world in object-like chunks; language makes predominant reference to objects; visual perception is attuned to objects; primates appear to be able to manipulate and modify objects. Yet the notions of objecthood used in the corresponding disciplines are not always aligned and are at times in need of conceptual clarification. The 2004 Summer School on "Reference to objects" tried to address these and related issues, under the direction of Paul Bloom, Daniel Povinelli, François Recanati, and Zenon Pylyshyn. The present workshop moves from papers developed at the School and furthers the discussion on the theme of the role of objects in cognition.
The workshop as part of the Ecole Thématique 2004 on "Reference to Objects" is sponsored by the CNRS, by institut Nicod, by RESCIF, by the European Science Foundation as part of the ESF-OMLL project "Mindreading and the Emergence of Human Communication", by the Indo-French programme of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and by the University of Eastern Piedmont at Vercelli In partnership with
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Tracking objects, Tracking agents
Nicolas Bullot
Patrick Rysiew
Assuming a realist ontology for the world of physical objects and an object-dependent epistemology of singular knowledge, we compare the tracking of objects without mental states with the tracking of intentional agents. Our contention for studying the uniqueness problem in situated agent tracking, referred to as the ‘object-dependence view’, is that in the most basic case, humans track intentional agents by tracking their bodies. However, we uphold that tracking intentional agents as intentional agents requires specific capacities for detecting and understanding biological motion and intentional states.
Date of publication: 3 March 2005
Tracking Agency
Ángeles Eraña
Benjamin Sylvand
Dario Taraborelli
The aim of this paper is to propose an extension of the object file notion to the study of nonconceptual individuation of agents. Robust evidence in psychology supports the hypothesis that dedicated perceptual mechanisms mediate sensitivity to objecthood as opposed to agency. Object individuation and perceptual animacy have been largely studied in recent literature, whereas little is known about mechanisms mediating individuation and tracking of perceptual entities endowed with agency. By introducing a notion of an agent file, we aim to provide a theoretical framework for more constrained empirical investigations into the ability to perceptually track agency.
Date of publication: 3 March 2005
Deferential Utterances
Philippe de Brabanter
David Nicolas
Isidora Stojanovic
Neftalí Villanueva Fernández
The aim of this paper is to spell out the distinction between two linguistic phenomena, both of which may be called “deference”. We distinguish default deference (the ubiquitous fact that the semantic content of our utterances is determined with respect to some language parameter supplied by the context), from deliberate deference (the intentional, communicative act of using a given expression the way it is used in some contextually specified language). We further distinguish linguistic deference from related epistemic and conceptual phenomena.
Date of publication: 3 March 2005
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