Language and the Cognitive Niche

Da mercoledì 11 dicembre a venerdì 13 dicembre avrà luogo a Pisa il seminario dal titolo "Language and the Cognitive Niche".

L'evento è organizzato da Danilo Manca, Giacomo Turbanti e Giorgio Venturi per il Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.

In recent decades, evolutionary theories have portrayed embodied agents as actively modifying their environments through bodily actions, making them more conducive to survival. This has sparked inquiries into the role of language in this process. It has been suggested that language functions as a structure humans have constructed to enhance their cognitive niche. In the sciences, formalization inevitably involves choices about how concepts are represented, alongside the abstract nature of the notions involved, leading to a plurality of perspectives and raising significant ontological and epistemological questions. This workshop aims to investigate the possibility of reinterpreting the expressive, representational, and inferential dimensions of language. We are particularly interested in whether these dimensions should be examined from an internal, mental perspective or whether they instead require an external, social perspective, and in considering the role of science in this relationship between internal and external worlds.

Programma

Mercoledì 11 dicembre

Palazzo Boilleau

14.00 
Registrazione

14.30
Inaugurazione
Alessandra Fussi (Direttore BA and MA Programs in Philosophy)

14.45
Guido Baggio
Gesture, Language and Mathematics from a Pragmatist Enactive Perspective

15.30
Marco Fenici
How Language Acquisition Shapes Mindreading Capacities

16:15
Break

16:30
Francesca Poggiolesi (joint work with & Brian Hill)
Explaining with reasons: from Aristotle to Machine Learning Classifiers

17:15
Luca Bellotti
Gödel, Husserl and the intuition of ideal objects

Giovedì 12 dicembre

Polo Guidotti, Aula G1

10:00
Anke Breunig
Justifying Rules of Language

10:45
Break

11:00
James O’Shea
Norm, Nature, & Representation: Sellars’ Cognitive Fusion of the Early & Later Wittgenstein

11:45
Break

12:00
Ulf Hlobil
How We Can Learn Inferential Roles

12:45
Lunch

15:00
Leon Horsten
What is there?

15:45
Break

16:00
Matteo De Benedetto & Lorenzo Rossi
The Cognitive Content of Mathematical Structures:The Case of Number Concepts

Venerdì 13 dicembre

Polo Guidottti, Aula G2

10:00
Preston Stovall
Primus Inter Pares: Philosophy of Language as First Philosophy

10:45
Break

11:00
Teresa Marques
The Expression of Anger

11:45
Break

12:00
Augusto Basilico
Evolutionary Game Theory and the Origins of Human Language