| Date | Presentation | Readings |
| Tuesday, Sep 2nd | Jakub Szymanik on logic & cognition | Alistair Isaac, Jakub Szymanik, and Rineke Verbrugge. Logic and complexity in cognitive science, Johan van Benthem on Logical/Informational Dynamics, A. Baltag and S. Smets (Eds.), Trends in Logic, Outstanding Contributions to Logic, Trends in Logic book series, Springer, 2014. |
| Thursday, Sep 4th | Enoch Aboh on linguistics & cognition. | Peter Culicover. Linguistics, cognitive science, and all that jazz, The Linguistic Review, Volume 22, Issue 2-4, 2005. |
| Tuesday, Sep 9th | Presentation and discussion by Divna Cpajak | Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. A rich landscape of affordances. Ecological Psychology, forthcoming.Bruineberg, J. & Rietveld, E. Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (599), pp. 1-14, 2014. (READ THIS PAPER FIRST but just the section ‘Skilled Intentionality and Optimal Grip on a Field of Affordances’, pp. 2-4) |
| Thursday, Sep 11th | Erik Rietveld on visual art, architecture and embodied cognition. | See also RAAAF website. |
| Tuesday, Sep 16th | Presentation and discussion by Gunnar De Haan | Oswald, Steve and Alain Rihs. Metaphor as argument: Rhetorical and epistemic advantages of extended metaphors. Argumentation 28, 133-159.Background reading: Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Relevance Theory. In Horn, L.R. & Ward, G. (eds.) 2004 The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632, 2004. |
| Thursday, Sep 18th | Francisca Snoeck Henkemans on metaphors and argumentation. | |
| Tuesday, Sep 23th | Presentation and discussion by Tycho Hofstra | Benedikt Löwe, Methodological remarks about comparing formal frameworks for narratives, in: Patrick Allo, Giuseppe Primiero (eds.), Third Workshop in the Philosophy of Information, Contactforum van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Brussel 2011, pp. 10-28Bernhard Fisseni, Aadil Kurji, Benedikt Löwe, Annotating with Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale: Reproducibility and Trainability, to appear in: Literary and Linguistic Computing (see Blackboard for the paper). |
| Thursday, Sep 25th | Benedikt Löwe on what makes stories similar. | |
| Tuesday, Sep 30th | Presentation and discussion by ?? | Lindley, D. V. The Analysis of Experimental Data: The Appreciation of Tea and Wine, Teaching Statistics, 1993, 15, 22-25. |
| Thursday, Oct 2nd | Eric-Jan Wagenmakers on Bayesian decision making. | |
| Tuesday, Oct 7th | Presentation and discussion by ?? | Van Der Maas, H. L., Dolan, C. V., Grasman, R. P., Wicherts, J. M., Huizenga, H. M., & Raijmakers, M. E. A dynamical model of general intelligence: the positive manifold of intelligence by mutualism. Psychological Review (4), 842, 2006. |
| Thursday, Oct 9th | Han van der Maas on the issues of general intelligence . | |
| Tuesday, Oct 14th | Presentations of project proposals by ??? | |
| Thursday, Oct 16th |
Presentations of project proposals by ??? |
2nd block schedule to be announced later