15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 9-12 July 2007




For the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva and the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research "Affective Sciences" I organised the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, which took place from the 9th to the 12th of July 2007 in Geneva.

Invited speakers: James Blair (MINH, Bethesda, USA; The development of the moralities and immoralities: The brain bases and cognitive-affective functional processes), Michael Waldmann (Göttingen, Germany; The Causality of Moral Dilemmas), Zoltan Szabo (Yale, USA; The determination of content), Keith Stenning (Edinburg, GB; The origin of specialties) and Paul Harris (Harvard, USA; Trust in testimony).

There were be invited symposia on mutual exclusivity, opened by Josef Perner (Salzburg) with Ellen Markman (Stanford), Lori Markson (Berkeley) and Martin Doherty (Stirling), on causal reasoning, opened by Johannes Roessler (Warwick) with Josef Perner (Salzburg) and Fred Schueler (New Mexico), on attention in neuropsychology and philosophy, opened by Martin Davies (Oxford) with Anne Aumola Davies (ANU), Philippe Chuard (Southern Methodist University), Robert Rafal (Bangor) and Patrick Vuillemier (Geneva), and on moral emotions, opened by Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) with Peter Goldie (Manchester), Paul Harris (Harvard) and Klaus Scherer (Geneva).

The conference was supported by the Rectorate, the "Commission Administrative" and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Geneva, the Société Académique (Geneva), the Marie Gretler Foundation (Zurich), the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH/SAGW), Blackwell Publishing and the Conférence Universitaire de la Suisse Occidentale.