• Paco Calvo – Systematic behavior and  the varieties of (representational) vehicles
• Wayne Christensen and John Michael – The representational demands of mind reading
• Andrzej Kapusta – Representation and engaged epistemology
• Paweł Gładziejewski – On the relation between folk psychological and scientific concepts of mental representation
• Christopher Martin – A process-oriented definition of teamwork with consequences for team cognition and performance (here is the full paper)
• Huw Price – Representationalism: My journey from nihilism to dualism 
• Jonathan Knowles – Anti-representationalism and perception
• Timo Vuorio – On the very problem of representation
• Robert Clowes – Virtualist representation and the heterogeneous vehicles of thought
• Edouard Machery – Doing without Concepts
• Fredrik Stjernberg – Kinds of representations, kinds of cognition
• Piotr Wilkin – Do representations need to represent?
• Krystyna Bielecka – Social coordination as an important component of mental representation
• Marcin Miłkowski – The role of representation in computational explanations
• Konrad Talmont-Kaminski – Reference and religious representations

And in The Reasoner (vol. 5, no. 10, 2011), there is a short summary of the workshop.

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Invited key speakers

Paco Calvo  (Murcia)
Edouard Machery  (Pittsburgh)
Huw Price  (Sydney / Cambridge)

The notion of representation is essential for the project of naturalizing the mind and meaning. One of the key issues regarding representation concerns the possible varieties of representation: what are various ways of representing? Are mental representations propositional or image-based, connectionist, analog or digital? How can one answer these questions in the case of natural cognitive systems? What consequences does a pluralist attitude to representation have for claims that animals and even plants are capable of representing?

Call for Papers

300 word abstracts are invited no later than June 30. Accepted speakers will have 40 minutes for their presentations, including discussion time. Preference will be given to presentations directly connected to the work carried out by the key speakers. Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=knew11

Registration and accommodation

Applications will be accepted till June 30th, with late applications being accepted till July 31st. Early registration fee is 150 Euro (reduced rate – 75 Euro), while late registration fee is 200 Euro. Fees are payable upon acceptance of application. They cover the workshop sessions, conference materials, lunches, coffee breaks and the minibus to and from Warsaw. Accommodation is available at the hotel at which the workshop will take place and costs an additional 100 Euro (including breakfasts) for twin en suite rooms (limited single rooms available at higher price). Availability of accommodation cannot be guaranteed for late registrants.

KNEW’11 is being organised by Marcin Milkowski (PAN, CPR) and Konrad Talmont-Kaminski (UMCS, CPR) with financial assistance from the Philosophy and Sociology Faculty of Marie Curie-Sklodowska University as well as the Centre for Philosophical Research.

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