sPAM is going to San Francisco this April to bring TWO panels to the American Philosophical Association Pacific meeting (April 8-11).
The first panel “Sentience Across Species, Class, and Kingdom” is Wednesday evening 4-6 pm.
| Kristin Andrews (York University) | |||
| “A Dynamic Marker Approach to Identifying Consciousness” | |||
| Irina Mikhalevich (Rochester Institute of Technology) | |||
| “Consciousness, Cognition, and the Moral Standing of Invertebrate Animals” | |||
| Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside) | |||
| “Is There Something It’s Like to Be a Garden Snail?” | |||
| Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia) | |||
| “Sentience and Biopsychism” | |||
The second panel “Methods of Observations in the Animal Mind Sciences” on is Thursday evening 6-8 pm.
| Kristin Andrews (York University) | ||||||
| “Are There Any Principles of Comparative Cognition?” | ||||||
| Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| “Chirps, Grunts, and Guffaws: A Philosopher in the Context of Experimental Design for Comparative Cognition” | ||||||
| Mike Dacey (Bates College) | ||||||
| TBA | ||||||
| Maria Botero (Sam Houston State University) | ||||||
| “Is Observing Animals Behavior an Exclusively Perceptual Process?” | ||||||
Hope to see you there!
