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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif">The<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">Problem</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">Cognitive</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">Ontology</span>:
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif">Functional brain imaging studies try to map patterns<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>activation to<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">cognitive</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>functions,
and usually rely upon functional task decomposition based on hypotheses derived from intuition and<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">cognitive</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>psychology. The tasks we postulate constitute a<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">cognitive</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">ontology</span>.
What is the epistemic status<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>these functional commitments? Do we have reason to believe they accurately track the fundamental building blocks<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>cognition?
Does the idea that cognition has fundamental building blocks have merit? Is there a way to bootstrap ourselves out<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>mistaken theories, or are the methods<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>neuroimaging
ill-suited to alert us to mistaken views? Can other areas<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>neuroscience help constrain our ontologies? What is the upshot<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>the
issues for gaining knowledge from neuroimaging studies and for theories<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>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<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">cognitive</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>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="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black">Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2019<br>
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Please submit a short abstract<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>250-300 words.<br>
Abstracts will be anonymously refereed and results communicated to authors by mid-January 2020.<br>
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Abstract submission is electronic. Please go to:<br>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; 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<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">of</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>times before the deadline.<br>
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Registration, travel, accommodations, and further information will be posted on the conference website: <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black"><a href="https://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2019-20/other_conferences_2019-20.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; 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="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black"><br>
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Further inquiries may be addressed to Morgan Thompson (</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black"><a href="mailto:mot14@pitt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif">mot14@pitt.edu</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black">).<br>
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