*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ***
EXTENDED DEADLINE: *August 31st, 2017*
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Third Avant Conference
Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL COGNITION
website: http://avant.edu.pl/trends3/index.html
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October 20-22 2017
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Lublin, Poland
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Within the social sciences, it is widely accepted that groups of people exhibit social properties and dynamics that emerge from, but cannot be reductively identified with the actions and properties of individual members. Nevertheless, psychology and cognitive science have only reluctantly embraced the idea that something similar might happen in the domain of mind and cognition.
Contemporary research on the distinctively social aspects of human cognition, which has become abundant over the past two decades, tends to fall somewhere along the following continuum. On the “conservative” side, the minds of individuals are currently being reconceived as socially situated, culturally scaffolded, and deeply transformed by our life-long immersion and participation in group contexts. According to more “liberal” multi-level approaches, the informational integration of functionally interdependent and socially distributed individual cognitive processes can enable the rise to emergent group-level cognitive phenomena. We invite participants to explore the full spectrum of social cognition, ranging from the elementary social-cognitive skills that allow people to think and act together, through embodied behavioral coupling and joint intentionality, mechanisms of mind reading and mutual understanding, all the way to group cognition.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
• Socially situated and scaffolded individual cognition
• Social cognition from an evolutionary, cultural-historical, and ontogenetic perspective
• Psychological underpinnings of social interaction (joint, multi-agent, collective)
• Collective intentionality and social ontology
• Technologically vs. socially extended cognition
• Distributed cognition and group minds
• Current debates on mindreading, empathy, social affordances, and the cognitive bases for intersubjectivity
*** Invited Speakers ***
Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, USA, book promotion)
Morana Alač (University of California San Diego, USA)
Him Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark)
Arkadiusz Gut (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Robert Rupert (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Judith Simon (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Robert Wilson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Applications for TIS 2017 through EASYCHAIR: http://avant.edu.pl/trends3/submissions.html#easyChair
TIS 2017 Website: http://avant.edu.pl/trends3/index.html
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Marcin Trybulec
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Poland, Lublin
TIS 2017 Chair
4E Cognition Group 