Special Events Calendar - Spring 2008

NEUROPHILOSOPHY BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES (Spring 2008)

Please join an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students for informal discussions on issues at the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.  Feel free to bring your lunch, and spread the word about the Brown Bag Series.

Thursday, January 10
Time: 12:15-2p
Location: Conference room of the Philosophy Department (34 Peachtree, 11th floor)
Title: "I Can't Get No Satisfaction:  Addiction as a Case Study in Neurophilosophy."
George Graham (Wake Forest University, Philosophy) will discuss addiction, and argue that addictive behavior is compulsive yet not irresistible. The neuroscience of addiction teaches us that addicts
behave in ways they want but dislike, which suggests that the neural substrates of wanting and liking dissociate in addiction.

Monday February 25
Time: noon-2pm, conference room of Philosophy
Location: Department (34 Peachtree, 11th floor)
Title: Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in an Autonomous Robot Architecture"
Ronald Arkin (Georgia Institute of Technology, Mobile Robot Laboratory) will provide a basis, motivation, theory, and design recommendations for the implementation of an ethical control and reasoning system
potentially suitable for constraining lethal actions in an autonomous robotic system so that they fall within the bounds prescribed by the Laws of War and Rules of Engagement. Eddy Nahmias (GSU, Philosophy) will comment.

Thursday, March 27
Time: 12:15-2pm, conference room of the Philosophy
Location: Department (34 Peachtree, 11th floor)
Title: "How Do Chimpanzees and Monkeys Respond To Their Own Fallibility and Impulsivity?"
Michael Beran (GSU, Language Research Center) will provide evidence to the effect that monkeys can monitor their own knowledge states in ways that allow them to deal with fallibility. Such uncertainty monitoring is dissociable from purely associative mechanisms.  Chimpanzees also can delay gratification in the face of increasing temptation, suggesting the possibility of anticipation of the future in these animals.  Both skills offer insights into the nature of animal minds.

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