To: uunet!comp-ai-nlang-know-rep Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:09:30 GMT From: popowich@cs.sfu.ca (Fred Popowich) Subject: CFP: Cognitive Science Conference Announcement ANNOUNCEMENT 7th Annual Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference February 11-12 (Fri-Sat) 1994 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada MODELING RATIONAL AND MORAL AGENTS PARTICIPANTS AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Evolution and Rationality The Evolution of Cooperation B. A. Huberman (Xerox PARC) "Social Dilemmas" Robert Frank (Cornell) "The Evolution of One-Shot Cooperation" Evolutionary Models Peter Danielson (UBC) "Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming" Evolution and Rationality Elliott Sober (Wisconsin) "The Adaptive Advantage of Learning and A Priori Prejudice" Brian Skyrms (UC Irvine) "Charles Darwin meets The Logic of Decision." Rationality and Morality Rationality & Morality David Schmidtz (Yale) "Rational Choice and Moral Constraint" Edward McClennen (Bowling Green) "The Rationality of Commitment?" Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) "Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality" Models of Constrained Maximization William Talbott (U. Washington) "Moral Equilibrium Theory" Leslie Burkholder (Carnegie Mellon) "Artificial Dispositions" Modeling Rationality Ronald deSousa (Toronto) "Modeling Rationality: A Normative or Descriptive Task?" HISTORY In February 1988, Simon Fraser University inaugurated its Cognitive Science Programme by hosting the first annual interdisciplinary conference in cognitive science. The topics and speakers for the annual conference are drawn from philosophy, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology. The topics of previous conferences are summarized below. 1988 Information, Language and Cognition 1989 Formal Grammar 1990 Connectionism 1991 Logic and Cognition 1992 Perception 1993 Biological Basis of Language The proceedings of these conferences are published by Oxford University Press in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science Series. CONFERENCE INFORMATION The conference will take place at the Harbour Centre, the downtown Vancouver extension of Simon Fraser University at 515 West Hastings Street. There will be a banquet the evening of Saturday February 12th. For further information about the conference please send electronic mail to Fred Popowich at popowich@cs.sfu.ca CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Steven Davis, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University Program Chair: Peter Danielson, Department of Philosophy/Centre for Applied Ethics University of British Columbia Local Arrangements: Kathleen Akins, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University Nancy Hedberg, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University Fred Popowich, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Richard Wright, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University -- Fred Popowich e-mail: popowich@sfu.ca Assistant Professor phone: +1 604 291 4193 School of Computing Science FAX: +1 604 291 3045 Simon Fraser University