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<span style="font-size:12.8px; font-family:'times new roman',serif">Please join us for the upcoming session of the 56th Annual Program of the Boston </span><span style="font-size:12.8px; font-family:'times new roman',serif">Colloquium</span><span style="font-size:12.8px; font-family:'times new roman',serif"> for
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Hosted by Boston University Center for the Philosophy and History of Science together with Washington University-St. Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Saturday, October 24<sup>th</sup>, 2015<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:14pt">9</span><sup style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">th</sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:14pt"> Floor, Photonics Center<br>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Evolution of Problem Solving Abilities in Mammalian Carnivores</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Kay Holekamp
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Zoology, Michigan State University</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Cetaceans and Primates: Convergent Themes in Cognition</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Lori Marino
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Executive Director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy (Kanab, Utah)</span></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Convergent Abstractions: Why Comparative Cognition Isn’t Mechanistic (Enough)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">
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Colin Allen</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> HPSC and Cognitive Science, Indiana University</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">‘Raven Politics’: Understanding and Use of Third-party Relations</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Thomas Bugnyar
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Cognitive Ethology, University of Vienna</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Why Might Minds Converge? The Case of the Octopus</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Jennifer Mather
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Psychology, University of Lethbridge</span></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Convergence on What: Rationality, Reason, or Passion?</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">
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Daniel McShea </span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Biology, Duke University</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:13pt; line-height:115%; font-family:Times">Smart Moves: Is Behavioral Flexibility Evidence of Cognitive Complexity?</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Irina Mikhalevich
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology</span><span style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> and
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Philosophy, Washington University-St. Louis</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">What Can Insect Brains Tell Us About How Difficult it is to Evolve Intelligence?</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">
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Lars Chittka </span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Sensory and Behavioral Ecology, Queen Mary University of London</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Spoon Lecture ~ Relativity and Anchors in Time</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Nicola S. Clayton
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">and </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Clive A. P. Wilkins
</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Psychology, University of Cambridge, Artist</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Synthetic Commentary</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:115%; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Matt Cartmill
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Undergraduate Program<br>
Biology Education Office 68-120<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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