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About
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The UCLA Iconicity Workshop aims to bring together researchers from philosophy and cognitive science for a discussion of iconicity, including work on diagrams, pictures, maps, quotation, visual perception, and iconic cognition. Open to the Public.
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Schedule
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June 5
10-12: Jacob Beck (University of York), "Analog Mental Representations" 1-3: Sun-Joo Shin (Yale), "How Diagrams Stimulate the Mathematical Mind" 4-6: Mazviita Chirimuuta (Pittsburgh), "The Indecisive Murmur of Colour" June 6 10-12: Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA), "Visual Inference and Pictorial Semantics" 1-3: Herbert Clark (Stanford), "Depictions as Communication" 4-6: Valeria Giardino (Ecole Normale Supérieure), "Operative Iconicity" |
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Participants
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Jacob Beck (University of York)
Professor Beck is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University. He works at the intersection of philosophy and the cognitive sciences. In particular, he is interested in bringing empirical work to bear on philosophical questions about the nature of representation. Dawn Chan [Canceled due to illness.] Dawn Chan is an art critic based in New York. She has published work on the interaction between visual art and popular culture. Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh) Professor Chirimuuta is an assistant professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on the relationship between neuroscience and the philosophy of perception, especially on questions about color. Herbert Clark (Stanford) Professor Clark is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. His work focuses on the psychological underpinnings of language and communication, especially the role of interpersonal features of discourse such as shared knowledge and demonstrations. Valeria Giardino (Ecole Normale Supérieure) Valeria Giardino is a post-doctoral researcher in the department of cognitive science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her work involves analysis of diagrammatic reasoning from a philosophical, psychological and biological perspective. Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) Professor Greenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the formal semantics of pictorial representation. Sun-Joo Shin (Yale) Professor Shin is a professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She works on diagrammatic logic, and the similarities and differences between such systems as Pierce's diagrammatic and graphical logical systems and propositional and predicate logic. |