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From: Roberto Poli <poli(a)GELSO.UNITN.IT>
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Subject: The Origin of Cognitive Sciences
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Mitteleuropaeisches Kulturinstitut / Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura (Bozen)
Europaeische Akademie / Accademia Europea (Bozen)
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The Origins of the Cognitive Sciences 1870-1930
Theories of Representation
DECEMBER, 12-13, 1997
CASTEL MARECCIO (BOLZANO / BOZEN)
December 12, Morning
9.00 Opening
9.30-10.30 Liliana Albertazzi (Trento), Presentational Primitives
10.30-11.30 Martin Kusch (M�nchen), The Politics of Representation: Social
Variables of the Thought Psychology Controversy, 1900 to 1920
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.00 Riccardo Luccio (Firenze), Representation in Psychophysics
December 12, Afternoon
15.00-16.00 Jan Sebestik (Paris), Logical (Bolzano) and Phenomenological
(Mach) Theories of Representation
16.00-17.00 Gianni Zanarini (Bologna), Helmholtz' and Mach's Theories on
Consonance
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 Salvo Dagostino (Roma), The Bild Conception of Physical Theory
from Helmholtz to Schr�dinger
18.30-19.30 Robin Rollinger (Freiburg), Sensorial Localization in Lotze
December 13, Morning
9.00-10.00 Karl Schuhmann (Utrecht), The Concept of Bild in the Early Husserl
10.00-11.00 Elisabeth Valentine (London), Analytic Psychology in G.F. Stout
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 W. Wildgen, Gestaltpsychologie und Semiotik: der Beitrag Kurt Lewins
December 13, Afternoon
15.00-16.00 Ruggero Pierantoni (Genova), The Children's Drawings as
Sensitive Probes sent into the Realm of Representations
16.00-17.00 Luciano Mecacci (Firenze), Morphological Classification of Concepts
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 Alfred Zimmer (Regensburg), The Function of Multiple Formats in
Mental Representation
18.30-19.00 Conclusions
A small number of bursaries are available to qualified students in order to
meet the costs of participation.
For information write to:
Liliana Albertazzi
Department of Sociology and Social Research
26, Verdi street
38100 Trento -- Italy
Tel. ++39-461-881-403
Fax: ++39-461-881-348
e-mail: alberta(a)risc1.gelso.unitn.it
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Roberto Poli
Department of Sociology and Social Research
26, Verdi street
38100 Trento -- Italy
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Fax: ++39-461-881-348
e-mail: poli(a)risc1.gelso.unitn.it
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:09:15 -0500
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Subject: WEBSEMINAR: B. Smith on Hayek & Connectionism
Web Seminar -- Barry Smith on Hayek & Connectionism, Nov. 5 - 13th
Barry Smith of the Department of Philosophy & Center for Cognitive
Science at the University of Buffalo will be conducting an internet seminar
on his newly published paper "The Connectionist Mind: A Study of
Hayekian Psychology" between Wed. Nov. 5th and Thurs. Nov. 13th on
the Hayek-L list: Hayek-L(a)maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Smith's seminar paper is available on the Web at:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/philosophy/faculty/smith/
articles/HAYEK.HTM
The format of the seminar will include an informal introduction
to his paper by Dr. Smith and "Brain & Behavior Science"-type
short review discussions of the paper solicited from Hayek-L
participants with a background in cognitive science and related
areas. Those with questions for Smith or with comments on
his informative paper are welcome to participate in the discussion
commencing Wednesday Nov. 5th and concluding Thursday
Nov. 13th.
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A complete transcript of the seminar discussion will be
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If you would like to be included among those who will submit
short review discussions of Barry's paper, please send a note
to the Hayek-L list host at: gregransom(a)aol.com
Smith's paper is collected in _Hayek the Economist
and Social Philosopher: A Critical Retrospect_, edited by S. Frowen.
London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press. 1997.
Friedrich Hayek is the author of the pathbreaking work in
psychology and neuroscience _The Sensory Order_, and winner
of the Nobel prize in economics. Hayek is notable as perhaps
the first to provide a neurologically plausible mechanism intended to
provide a functionalist solution to the problem of consciousness.
For more on Hayek and his work in neuroscience and
psychology, go to the Friedrich Hayek Scholars Page on
the Web at:
http://members.aol.com/gregransom/hayekpage.htm
Greg Ransom
gregransom(a)aol.com
Hayek-L coordinator
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
THE DYNAMICAL HYPOTHESIS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
by Tim van Gelder
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please send EMAIL to:
bbs(a)soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.htmlhttp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbsftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS
ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators
are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by
anonymous ftp (or gopher or world-wide-web) according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
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THE DYNAMICAL HYPOTHESIS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Tim van Gelder
Department of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3052
Australia
tgelder(a)ariel.unimelb.edu.au
http.//ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au/~tgelder
KEYWORDS: cognition, systems, dynamical systems, computers,
computational systems, computability, modeling, time.
ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen increasing use of dynamics in
cognitive science. If the heart of the dominant computational approach
is the hypothesis that cognitive agents are digital computers, the
heart of the alternative dynamical approach is the hypothesis that
cognitive agents are dynamical systems. This target article attempts
to articulate the dynamical hypothesis and to defend it as an
empirical alternative to the computational hypothesis. Digital
computers and dynamical systems are characterized as specific kinds of
systems. The dynamical hypothesis has two major components: the nature
hypothesis (cognitive agents are dynamical system) the knowledge
hypothesis (cognitive agents can be understood dynamically). A wide
range of objections to the general hypothesis are then rebutted. The
conclusion is that cognitive systems may well be dynamical systems,
and only sustained empirical research in cognitive science will
determine the extent to which that is true.
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.vangelder). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft.
Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise
you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
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These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to
retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc.
Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.htmlhttp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.vangelder
ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.vangelder
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp ftp.princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.vanGelder
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
