IconicityWorkshop
About the workshop

The UCLA Iconicity Workshop aims to bring together researchers from philosophy and cognitive science for a discussion of iconicity, including work on diagrams, pictures, maps, quotation, visual perception, and iconic cognition. Open to the public.

Schedule

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TimeSpeakerTalk
June 5
10–12Jacob Beck
University of York
“Analog Mental Representations”
1–3Sun-Joo Shin
Yale
“How Diagrams Stimulate the Mathematical Mind”
4–6Mazviita Chirimuuta
Pittsburgh
“The Indecisive Murmur of Colour”
June 6
10–12Gabriel Greenberg
UCLA
“Visual Inference and Pictorial Semantics”
1–3Herbert Clark
Stanford
“Depictions as Communication”
4–6Valeria Giardino
Ecole Normale Supérieure
“Operative Iconicity”

Participants

Jacob Beck
University of York
Professor Beck is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University. He works at the intersection of philosophy and the cognitive sciences. In particular, he is interested in bringing empirical work to bear on philosophical questions about the nature of representation.
Dawn Chan
Canceled due to illness
Dawn Chan is an art critic based in New York. She has published work on the interaction between visual art and popular culture.
Mazviita Chirimuuta
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Chirimuuta is an assistant professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on the relationship between neuroscience and the philosophy of perception, especially on questions about color.
Herbert Clark
Stanford
Professor Clark is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. His work focuses on the psychological underpinnings of language and communication, especially the role of interpersonal features of discourse such as shared knowledge and demonstrations.
Valeria Giardino
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Valeria Giardino is a post-doctoral researcher in the department of cognitive science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her work involves analysis of diagrammatic reasoning from a philosophical, psychological and biological perspective.
Gabriel Greenberg
UCLA
Professor Greenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the formal semantics of pictorial representation.
Sun-Joo Shin
Yale
Professor Shin is a professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She works on diagrammatic logic, and the similarities and differences between such systems as Pierce's diagrammatic and graphical logical systems and propositional and predicate logic.

Organizers

Gabriel Greenberg
UCLA Philosophy
Gabby Johnson
UCLA Philosophy
Gabe Dupre
UCLA Philosophy