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Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract Two ideas characterize many discussions of discourse files or discourse referents. One is that they are only temporary, serving as mental proxies for individuals only across some segment of discourse. Dissociations …

Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract MSDRT (Mental State Discourse Representation Theory) has developed a number of different Types of Entity Representations (its term for what is referred to by others as Mental Files). The different ER Types are for …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract In previous work, I argue that discourse referents-devices for tracking objects under discussion in discourse-are best understood as mental files: vehicles for tracking the same object in cognition independently of any …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract Discourse referents are "mental files" insofar as they are mental representations that function like variables: they architecturally separate addresses from contents. I argue for a construal of discourse referents in which …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract I propose that communication with the indexical pronoun 'I' requires coordination on a familiar discourse referent, just like communication with anaphoric (or deictic) use of 'she'. This proposal improves on a contrasting …

Chair: Michael Murez Abstract Scene constructions, or more broadly, episodic simulations, are internal representations of states, relations, and events in the spatial navigational system of the brain. These constructions serve various purposes, including …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Abstract Children become able to process verbal identity statements as they learn to attribute false beliefs. The mental files explanation points to the need for linked indexed files for solving both tasks, which children achieve …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Hannah Steinicke Hannah Steinicke is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Justus-Liebig University Gießen in Germany. Recently, she worked on the mental representation of sets in infants in …

Abstract Copyright protects original works of the mind, whatever their artistic merit or purpose. But what is a work of the mind ? French copyright law refers to " the imprint of the author's personality" . As AI has (at least not yet!) neither a " mind"  …

Abstract Viciously rejected by some (Bourdieu), does genetic criticism have a place among the social sciences that deal with art ? Is there a place for a " science of written invention ", or more precisely for a discipline that strives to reconstitute …

Abstract In the early modern era, Rome was known as "  teatro del mondo  ", because the balances and tensions of international politics were reflected there in the form of representations, as part of the pontifical ceremonial determining the hierarchy …

Abstract For a long time, the romantic image of creative activity excluded it from the realm of management science. Since the turn of the millennium, the proliferation of work on the creative industries has confirmed their status as a management subject …

Abstract In what way is the governance of the artistic enterprise (i.e., the design that the artist brings to fruition, by devoting material and immaterial resources to it, but also the underlying structure, or even the legal entity, that brings together …

Abstract Understanding artists through their income is not an easy task : the diversity of forms of artistic activity, as well as the multiplicity of statistical sources, pose challenges to this type of approach. Artists are distinguished from other …

Abstract The poem on time in Eccl 3:1-9 is one of the best-known texts in the book of Qohelet. According to this poem, there is a definite moment and time for every event under heaven. Although the poem differs in literary form from the other reflections …