Monday 3 July 2006
9h - 9h30 Registration, coffee
9h30 - 9h40 Welcome and practical issues (Tony Belpaeme)
9h40 - 10h00 Opening discussion by David Spurrett
10h - 11h Mike Anderson - Internal suports for external symbol grounding
11h - 11h20 Coffee
11h20 - 12h20 Stephen Cowley - Grounding external symbols in humans and other agents
12h20 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h00 Karl MacDorman - Grounding signs in interpersonal norms
15h00 - 15h30 L. Seabra Lopes and A. Chauhan - One-class lifelong learning approach to grounding
15h30 - 16h00 Robert Clowes - Semiotic symbols and the missing theory of thinking
16h00 - 16h20 Coffee
16h20 - 16h50 Christopher Viger - The acquired language of thought hypothesis - a theory of external symbol grounding
16h50 - 17h20 Norman Steinhart - The fundamental role of externally mediated interactions in symbolic interaction: inverting the symbol grounding problem
 
Tuesday 4 July 2006
9h - 10h15 Stevan Harnad - Wittgenstein's error: All language is public, but not necessarily social
10h15 -10h45 Coffee
10h45 - 11h45 Paul Vogt and Federico Divina - Language grounding in a complex ecological environment
11h45 - 12h30 Angelo Cangelosi - The grounding and sharing of symbols
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 14h45 Tony Belpaeme - External grounding of perceptual categories
14h45 - 15h15 Simon Worgan and Robert Damper - Grounding symbols in the physics of speech communication
15h15 - 15h45 Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi - Psychological reality of stable states: assessing stability in psycholinguistic experiments
15h45 - 16h15 Coffee
16h15 - 17h15 Discussion and close

The book of abstracts and papers is available (pdf, 1.14Mb).