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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Problem of Cognitive Ontology: Implications for Scientific Knowledge</span></b></p>
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<span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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<span>Center for Philosophy of Science</span><br>
<span>1117 and 1008 Cathedral of Learning</span><br>
<span>University of Pittsburgh</span><br>
<span>Pittsburgh, PA USA</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Functional brain imaging studies try to map patterns of activation to cognitive functions, and usually rely upon functional task decomposition based on hypotheses derived from intuition and cognitive
psychology. The tasks we postulate constitute a cognitive ontology. What is the epistemic status of these functional commitments? Do we have reason to believe they accurately track the fundamental building blocks of cognition? Does the idea that cognition
has fundamental building blocks have merit? Is there a way to bootstrap ourselves out of mistaken theories, or are the methods of neuroimaging ill-suited to alert us to mistaken views? Can other areas of neuroscience help constrain our ontologies? What is
the upshot of the issues for gaining knowledge from neuroimaging studies and for theories of scientific realism more generally? This interdisciplinary conference will focus upon these questions and their philosophical implications, and will explore possible
methods for addressing these philosophical concerns, such as data-driven discovery methods for cognitive functions. We invite scholars from philosophy and the neurosciences to submit proposals for submitted talks and encourage all participants to think broadly
and outside the box about these fundamental epistemological issues in neuroscience.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;
color:black">Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2019<br>
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Please submit a short abstract of 250-300 words.<br>
Abstracts will be anonymously refereed and results communicated to authors by mid-January 2020.<br>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cogont2019" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande",sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cogont2019</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;
color:black">If you do not have an EasyChair account you must create one on entering the site. After logging in, click the ‘New Submission’ link and add your abstract. You can revise your submission
any number of times before the deadline.<br>
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Registration, travel, accommodations, and further information will be posted on the conference website:
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windowtext"><a href="https://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2019-20/other_conferences_2019-20.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">https://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2019-20/other_conferences_2019-20.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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Further inquiries may be addressed to Morgan Thompson (</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:mot14@pitt.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">mot14@pitt.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">).
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Joseph McCaffrey, University of Nebraska, Omaha</span></p>
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color:#A5A5A5;mso-themecolor:accent3">Jackie Sullivan, Western University
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<span>Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College</span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#999999">Trey Boone, University of Pittsburgh</span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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<span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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The Center for Philosophy of Science</span></p>
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PhD Candidate<br>
History and Philosophy of Science</p>
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