Program & abstracts

Book of abstracts of all selected contributions (downloadable as a pdf file)

Flier with the program (downloadable as a pdf file)

Provisional Program

	June 30th
900-930	Registration
930-940	Introduction
940-1110	David Papineau	Kinds of Kinds and Kinds of Sciences
1110-1130	Break
1130-1220	Irene Olivero	Towards a unified account of the semantics of natural, artifactual and social kind terms
1220-1310	David Ludwig	Naturalness vs. Social Critique? The Case of “Woman”
1310-1430	Lunch
1430-1520	Marco Viola	Multiply Realizabiltiy within the Standard Ontological Framework of Cognitive Neuroscience
1520-1610	Joe Dewhurst	Natural kinds and folk kinds in the psychological sciences
1610-1700	Emiliano Loria	Preverbal human Infants’ concepts of natural kinds and artifact kinds. Does the natural pedagogy social learning mechanism mesh the Psychological essentialism?
1700-1720	Break
1720-1810	Marco Fenici	Naturalism about mindreading? A discussion of ontological and empirical alternatives
1830-2000	Tour of the historical center
2000	Dinner
	July 1st
900-1030	Andrea Borghini	De Principiis Generum Naturalium
1030-1120	Davide Serpico	What kind of kind is intelligence?
1120-1140	Break
1140-1220	Zdenka Brzović	Natural and practical kinds in psychiatry: the case of psychopathy
1220-1310	Kirsten Brukamp	Diseases in the Philosophy and Theory of Medicine and Health Care: Natural or Social Kinds?
1310-1430	Lunch
1430-1520	Guglielmo Feis	Taxonomizing the Social World: Searlean “Social Ontology” as an Ontology of Kinds
1520-1610	Edoardo Fregonese	Three social “things”: Subjects, objects and institutions
1610-1700	Marco Fasoli	A high-order taxonomy of cognitive techniques
1700-1720	break
1720-1850	John Dupré	Processes, Organisms and Kinds
1850	Closing remarks
2000	Dinner