EVOLUTION AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
A workshop organized by Academy of Finland funded projects Modeling Mechanisms (Department of Philosophy) and Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration, TINT (Department of Social and Moral Philosophy)
University of Helsinki, Main Building,
November 12-13, 2009
The purpose of the interdisciplinary workshop is to discuss the relevance of evolutionary theory for the human sciences. The first day of the workhop will concentrate on the sciences of cognition, while the focus of the second will be on the social sciences.
The workshop programme and speakers:
DAY 1: COGNITION (Main Building, lecture room 5, Thursday 12th of November)
10.00 - 10.10 Matti Sintonen (University of Helsinki): Opening
10.10 - 11.10 Richard Samuels (Ohio State University): On the evolution of cognitive flexibility
11.20 - 12.20 Pauli Brattico (University of Jyväskylä): Evolutionary approaches to the human language
12.20 - 13.40 Lunch
13.40 - 14.40 Katja Valli (University of Turku): Does Dreaming serve a function? Evolutionary approach to dream consciousness
14.50 - 15.50 Ron Mallon (University of Utah): Evolutionary cognitive and social constructionist accounts of racial cognition: towards an integrated account
16.00 - 17.00 Tomi Kokkonen (University of Helsinki): Psychological innateness and evolutionary explanations of human behavior
DAY 2: SOCIAL SCIENCES (Main Building, lecture room 13, Friday 13th of November)
10.00 - 10.10 Uskali Mäki (Academy of Finland): Opening
10.10 - 11.10 Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute): Five principles for the unification of the behavioral sciences
11.20 - 12.20 Markus Jokela (University of Helsinki): The importance of variation in evolutionary social sciences
12.20 - 13.40 Lunch
13.40 - 14.40 Till Grüne-Yanoff (Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies): Evolutionary game theory between interpersonal comparisons
14.50 - 15.50 Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Is reciprocity-based cooperation "ultimately" altruistic or selfish? A red herring
16.00 - 17.00 Petri Ylikoski (University of Tampere): Evolution and explanatory integration in the social sciences
No prior registration required!
For further information see: www.helsinki.fi/filosofia/tint/events or contact paivi.a.seppala(at)helsinki.fi or petri.ylikoski(at)uta.fi
WELCOME!