496 Presentations

Tentative Talk Schedule

• October 24: Ray Ricci
• October 26: Alex Rau
• October 29: Dan Goldman
• November 2: Tyler Shovlin
• November 5: Akil Griffiths
• November 9: Dan Parks
• November 16: Don O'Brien
• November 28: Molly Heagerty
• November 30: Marissa Davilla
• December 3: Andrew Syrell
• December 5: Tony Ferrentino

Talk Topics

• Marissa Davilla may talk on Freud and religion.
• Tony Ferrentino will talk on some controversial results or claims in evolutionary psychology.
• Dan Goldman will talk on the differences and similarities and relationships between philosophical behaviorism and psychological behaviorism, perhaps focusing on a philosophical debate regarding what philosophical behaviorism would entail about linguistic meaning. This will be sometime in September, during Skinner.
• Akil Griffiths will talk about the early Freud. The Id will be released!
• Molly Heagerty will talk on introspection.
• Don O'Brien will talk on Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, drawing parallels to Milgram's experiment.
• Dan Parks will talk on Freud's view of culture or civilization.
• Alex Rau will talk about agnosias and aphasias in the cognitive revolution. I'm going to recommend that he focus on, or at least include, hemilateral neglect, as an example of a deficit that is very hard to explain without reference to internal mental states.
• I'm asking Ray Ricci to talk on Stroop effect and the Shepard & Metzler (1971) results.
• Tyler Shovlin will talk on conditioning. This is helpful: we need a reminder of what classical and operant conditioning are.
• Andrew Syrell will speak on falsifiability, especially with respect to Freud.