PAMBA Madrid: April 26-28, 2023
The Inaugural Meeting of the Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association was held in Madrid on April 26-28, 2023. The meeting was hosted by the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science of UNED.
Schedule:
DAY 1 (April 26)
10.00 Opening remarks (Local organising committee & Kristin Andrews)
10.30 – 11.30 Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh): Joyful animals?
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13:00 Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan & Ruhr-Universität Bochum) & Gerardo Viera (University of Sheffield): Temporal cognition in apes
13.00 – 15.30 Poster session & Lunch
15.30 – 16.30 Kristin Andrews (York University) & Susana Monsó (UNED): How to make comparative cognition less WEIRD
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00 PAMBA Prize lecture: Rhys Borchert (University of Arizona) & Aliya Dewey (University of Arizona): In praise of animals
DAY 2 (April 27)
10.00 – 11.00 Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University): Animal empathy
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 –12.30 Antonella Tramacere (University of Bologna): Time for a three-level view of animal cognition
12.30 – 13.30 Christine Webb (Harvard University): Comparative illithology: The study of birth across species and its implications for animal minds
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.00 Mike Dacey (Bates College): Gathering evidence about animal minds
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 Jonathan Birch (LSE): Emotionless animals?
DAY 3 (April 28)
10.00 – 11.00 Richard Moore (University of Warwick): Do chimpanzees know the meaning of words?
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Giacomo Melis (University of Stirling): Rational belief-formation and reflection in human and non-human animals
12.30 – 13.30 Dorna Behdadi (University of Gothenburg): The moral claimant account of moral agency
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.00 José Carlos Camillo (Universidade Federal de Goiás): Episodic memory in non-human animals: An epistemic approach
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 Ali Boyle (LSE): Cognitive archaeology: Unlucky for some?
20.00 Conference dinner
Organizing committee:
Kristin Andrews (York University)
Susana Monsó (UNED)
Richard Moore (University of Warwick)
Scientific committee:
Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
Kristin Andrews (York University)
Laura Danón (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)
Susana Monsó (UNED)
Richard Moore (University of Warwick)
Sponsors:
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project "NORMABIOMED: Normativity and mechanistic approaches in the philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences" (project number PID2021-128835NB-I00)
Dept. of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, UNED
Faculty of Philosophy, UNED
SSHRC Canada
York University