Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 

Highlights of the 2010 Program

President’s Invited Address

 Saturday Morning, 9:00 a.m.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Boston College

"Mapping Mind to Brain" 

Philosophy Commentator: John Bickle, University of Cinncinnati

 Psychology Commentator: Christopher Petkov, Newcastle University

 Presidential Address

 Friday Afternoon, 5:00 p.m.

 John S. Monahan

Central Michigan University

Invited Speakers

 Michael J. Kane, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

"Working Memory & Wandering Minds: Thought Content as a Window into Executive-Control Variation"

Thursday, 3:00 p.m.

Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard University

"Concepts, Actions and Objects: Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience"

 Roy Baumeister, Florida State University

"Is Conscious Thought Useful for Anything? "

 Friday, 11:00 a.m.

 Robert McCauley, Emory University

"Taking a Cognitive Point of View: Religions as Rube Goldberg Devices"

 Friday, 4:00 p.m.

Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland

"Primate Metacognition: Its Nature and Extent"

 Saturday, 5:00 p.m.

 Invited Symposia

What Primates Know and Remember

Chair: Michael Beran, Georgia State University

Benjamin Basile & Robert Hampton, Emory University

Regina Paxton & Robert Hampton, Emory University

Michael Beran, Georgia State University

Charles Menzel & John Kelley, Georgia State University

 Thursday, 1:00 p.m.

Psychological Research Using Neuroimaging

Chair: Jared Taglialatela, Clayton State University

Jared Taglialatela, Clayton State University

Tricia King, Georgia State University

Chris Petkov, Newcastle University

 Friday, 1:00 p.m.

The Psychology and Philosophy of Teaching

Chair: Lauren Taglialatela, Kennesaw State University

Randolph Smith, Lamar University

George Rainbolt, Georgia State University

Linda Noble, University System of Georgia; Board of Regents

 Friday, 3:00 p.m.

 The Self

Chair: Serife Tekin, York University

Jenann Ismael, University of Sydney and University of Arizona

Barry Dainton, University of Liverpool

Robert Howell, Southern Methodist University

Friday, 9:00 a.m.

Mental Representation

Chair: Whit Schonbein, College of Charleston

Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University

Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University

William Ramsey, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Friday, 1:00 p.m.

 Language and Thought

Chair: Tadeusz Zawidski, George Washington University

José Luis Bermúdez, Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Rescorla, University of California, Santa Barbara

Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, 12:00 p.m.