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Logical Empiricism in North America (LENA)
7-9 May, 1998
Science Center 226
Harvard University
WWW Page: http://www.phil.vt.edu/lena
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>From the 1930s through the 1960s, Logical Empiricism provided North
American intellectuals with the dominant philosophical framework within
which to understand science. Yet Logical Empiricisms hegemony was not
inevitable. It was a result of historical, sociological, intellectual,
and political factors that Logical Empiricism came to influence North
American thinking about science so deeply.
Logical Empiricism in North America (LENA) aims to promote historical,
philosophical, and sociological understanding of the transmission of the
people and ideas associated with Logical Empiricism to North America in
the 1930s and 1940s. LENA extends recent efforts to understand Logical
Empiricism and related intellectual movements in their historical and
intellectual contexts. Participants in LENA include:
Program:
All sessions are in the Cohen Seminar Room, Science Center 226, Harvard
University
Thursday May 7, 1998
2-2:10
Preliminary Remarks
I 2:10-5:30 PM
Chair: Susan Lanzoni (Harvard University)
Friedrich Stadler (Institute Vienna Circle)
Transfer and Transformation of Logical Empiricism: Quantitative and
Qualitative Aspects
Robert S. Cohen (Boston University)
Encounters With LENA: On Blumberg, Carnap, Feigl, Frank, Hanson,
Kaufman, Margeneau, Nagel, Neurath, and Reichenbach
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Unified Science: Carnap, Morris,
and the Rapprochement between Logical Empiricism and American
Pragmatism
II 7-9:00 PM
Chair: TBA
Peter Galison (Harvard University)
Relativity: Time and Again
Friday May 8, 1998
III 9-11:20 AM
Chair: Jimena Canales (Harvard University)
Gerald Holton (Harvard University)
The Americanized Vienna Circle and B.F. Skinner
Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna)
Psychology, Migration, Unity, Change: Gustav Bergmann, Egon Brunswik
and Other Imigris Between Logical Empiricism and Neo-Behaviorism
11:20-1:00
Lunch
IV 1-3:15 PM
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Gary Hardcastle (Virginia Tech)
C.I. Lewis and Logical Positivism
Richard Creath (Arizona State University)
Carnap, Quine, and Logical Truth
3:15-3:30 PM
Break
V 3:30-6:30 PM
Chair: Christian Fleck (Universitdt Graz)
Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota)
"The Minnesota Center and the Institutionalization of Logical Empiricism
in North America: A View From the Archives"
Rudolf Haller
"On Herbert Feigl"
Alfred Schramm
A New Home for Logical Empiricism: Feigl and the MCPS
Eckehart Koehler
Normative Psychology, Pure Pragmatics and Intuition: The Black Hole of
Logical Empiricism
6:30-9:00 PM
Dinner
9:00-11:30 PM
Reception, Inn at Harvard
Saturday May 9, 1998
VI 9-11:20 AM
Chair: Bob Brain (Harvard University)
Thomas Ricketts (University of Pennsylvania)
"Languages and Calculi"
Hans-Joachim Dahms
(Universitdt Gvttingen)
How to Become An Endangered Species: Pragmatists and Pragmatism in
Neuraths International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
11:20-1:00
Lunch
VII 1-3:15 PM
Chair: Sherri Roush (Harvard University)
George Reisch (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Disunity in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
Thomas Uebel (London School of Economics)
Frank's History of the Vienna Circle: A Programmatic Retrospective
3:15-3:30 PM
Break
VIII 3:30-6:30 PM
Chair: Matt Price (Harvard University)
Diederick Raven
Zilsel In America: A Case Study
Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)
The End of the Science and Values Debate in 1950s Philosophy of
Science
Michael Friedman (Indiana University)
Hempel and the Vienna Circle
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and Virginia Tech.
There is lively Commentary on Green's target article appearing
in Psycoloquy, a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American
psychological Association. Further Commentary is invited.
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Green, CD. Are Connectionist Models Theories of Cognition?
PSYCOLOQUY 9(04) Tuesday 14 April 1998
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.04.connectionist-explanation.1.green
Orbach, J. Do Wires Model Neurons?
PSYCOLOQUY 9(05) Wednesday 15 April 1998
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.05.connectionist-explanation.2.orbach
O'Brien, GJ. The Role of Implementation in Connectionist Explanation.
PSYCOLOQUY 9(06) Sunday 19 April 1998
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.06.connectionist-explanation.3.obrien
Green, CD. Lashley's Lesson Is Not Germane.
Reply to Orbach
PSYCOLOQUY 9(07) Wednesday 22 April 1998
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.07.connectionist-explanation.4.green
Green, CD. Problems with the Implementation Argument.
Reply to O'Brien
PSYCOLOQUY 9(08) Saturday 25 April 1998
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psyc.98.9.08.connectionist-explanation.5.green
Young, ME. Are Hypothetical Constructs Preferred Over Intervening
Variables?
PSYCOLOQUY 9(09) Monday 27 April 1998
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.09.connectionist-explanation.6.young
Grainger, J. & Jacobs, AM. Localist Connectionism Fits the Bill
PSYCOLOQUY 9(09) Monday 27 April 1998
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Copyright 1998 Jonathan Grainger
LOCALIST CONNECTIONISM FITS THE BILL
Commentary on Green on Connectionist-Explanation
Jonathan Grainger
Centre de Recherche en Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS
Universite de Provence
Aix-en-Provence
France
grainger(a)newsup.univ-mrs.fr
Arthur M. Jacobs
Dept. of Psychology
Philips University of Marburg,
Marbug, Germany
jacobsa(a)mailer.uni-marburg.de
ABSTRACT: Green (1998) restates a now standard critique of
connectionist models: they have poor explanatory value as a result
of their opaque functioning. However, this problem only arises in
connectionist models that use distributed hidden unit
representations, and is NOT a feature of localist connectionism.
Indeed, Green's critique reads as an appeal for the development of
localist connectionist models as an excellent starting point for
building a unified theory of human cognition.
1. First, if we agree that theory development in psychological science
is ready for the shift from prequantitative verbal-boxological modeling
toward more formal modeling efforts, then the kinds of questions we
should be asking are: What kind of quantitative modeling is
appropriate? How should we evaluate its appropriateness? In other
words, the verbal theories of human memory discussed by Green (1998)
are not a serious alternative to whatever connectionism might offer.
They are at best a starting point for developing more formal accounts
of human memory. We have recently argued that localist connectionism
provides a promising framework for such an endeavor (Grainger & Jacobs,
1998).
2. Green (1998), as well as many other critics of connectionism,
appears to use the term connectionism as synonymous with trainable
networks with hidden units (often called PDP models, and typically
trained with backpropagation, Rumelhart, Hinton, & Williams, 1986).
Many connectionist models do not include hidden units. Some of these
are trainable (with Hebbian learning, for example), and some are
hardwired (e.g., McClelland & Rumelhart's, 1981, interactive activation
model). We refer to any connectionist model in which all processing
units can be unambiguously assigned a meaningful interpretation as
"localist connectionist." Note that, as in all connectionist models, all
processing units in localist connectionist models are identical; it is
only their position in the network that guarantees their unique
interpretation. The modeler can artificially label each of these units
in order to facilitate interpretation of network activity.
3. Grainger and Jacobs (1998) analyzed the advantages of adopting
a localist connectionist approach as opposed to the currently more
popular PDP approach. Here we will discuss only those points relevant
to the issues raised by Green (1998). Green identifies the close
connection between theoretical and observable entities as a critical
feature of traditional scientific theories. One must be able to link
transparently the theoretical entities of the theory to the observable
entities in the target world in order to achieve explanatory adequacy.
Without examining the extent to which this is fails to be a feature of
PDP models, it should be clear from the above discussion that localist
connectionist models do provide this transparent link. Units in
localist connectionist models do refer to relatively uncontroversial
aspects of the target world. They represent the categories (such as
letters and words) that the brain has learned from repeated exposure to
the environment.
4. As noted by Jacobs, Rey, Ziegler, and Grainger (1998), transparency
will always tend to diminish as models become more complex. Jacobs et
al. conclude, however, that algorithmic models of the localist
connectionist variety may offer the best trade-off between
clarity/transparency and formality/precision. It is the increased level
of precision that allows localist connectionist models to achieve
greater descriptive adequacy (Jacobs & Grainger, 1994) without
sacrificing explanatory adequacy.
5. Apart from greater explanatory and descriptive adequacy, localist
connectionist models offer a simple means of quantifying pre-existing
verbal-boxological models that have already stood the test of extensive
empirical research. Referring to this point, Page and Norris (1998)
speak of a symbiosis between verbal theorizing and quantitative
modeling. Furthermore, the principle of nested modeling has been
readily applied with localist connectionist models. Adopting this
approach facilitates the process of model-to-model comparison.
Models differing by a single feature (e.g., interactivity, Jacobs &
Grainger, 1992), can be compared, and different variants of the model
can compete in strong inference studies (e.g., Dijkstra & van Heuven,
1998).
6. Finally, localist connectionist models, using the same simple
processing units and activation functions, provide a unified
explanation for phenomena observed in the different subdomains of human
cognition. The general principles that govern processing in all
localist models (e.g., similarity based parallel activation, lateral
inhibition) can also be isolated and analyzed in an easily
interpretable manner (see e.g., Grainger & Jacobs, in press). We
therefore conclude that localist connectionism provides an excellent
starting point for the development of a unified theory of human
cognition.
REFERENCES
Dijkstra, T. & van Heuven, W.J.B. (1998). The BIA model and bilingual
word recognition. In J. Grainger & A.M. Jacobs (Eds.), Localist
connectionist approaches to human cognition. Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.
Grainger, J. & Jacobs, A.M. (1998). On localist connectionism and
psychological science. In J. Grainger & A.M. Jacobs (Eds.), Localist
connectionist approaches to human cognition. Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.
Grainger, J. & Jacobs, A.M. (1998). Temporal integration of information
in orthographic priming. Visual Cognition, in press.
Green, CD. (1998) Are Connectionist Models Theories of Cognition?
PSYCOLOQUY 9(4)
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psyc.98.9.04.connectionist-explanation.1.green
Jacobs, A.M. & Grainger, J. (1992). Testing a semistochastic variant of
the interactive activation model in different word recognition
experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 18, 1174-1188.
Jacobs, A. M., & Grainger, J. (1994). Models of visual word
recognition: Sampling the state of the art. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 1311-1334.
Jacobs, A.M., Rey, A., Ziegler, J.C, & Grainger, J. (1998). MROM-P: An
interactive activation, multiple read-out model of orthographic and
phonological processes in visual word recognition. In J. Grainger &
A.M. Jacobs (Eds.), Localist connectionist approaches to human
cognition. Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.
McClelland, J. L. & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An interactive activation
model of context effects in letter perception: Part I. An account of
basic findings. Psychological Review, 88, 375-407.
Page, M. & Norris, D. (1998). Modeling immediate serial recall with a
localist implementation of the primacy model. In J. Grainger & A.M.
Jacobs (Eds.), Localist connectionist approaches to human cognition.
Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.
Rumelhart, D.E., Hinton, G.E. & Williams, R.J. (1986). Learning
internal represenatations by error propagation. In D.E. Rumelhart, J.L.
McClelland, & the PDP research group, Parallel distributed processing:
Explorations in the microstructure of cognition (Vol. 1). Cambridge,
MA: Bradford Books.
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5th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, NBU, July 13 - 25, 1998
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The Summer School features advanced courses in Cognitive Science, workshop,
participant symposia, panel discussions, and intensive informal
discussions. Participants will include university teachers and researchers,
and graduate students. Working language is English.
International Advisory Board
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
William HIRST (New School for Social Sciences, NY, USA)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Courses
Mappings in Thought and Language - Gilles Fauconnier (U of California San
Diego, USA)
Coherence in Thought and Action - Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada)
Analogy-Making - Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Boicho
Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
Concepts and Categorization - James Hampton (City University London, UK)
The Psychology of Decision Making - Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA)
Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli (Stanford, USA)
Creative Cognition - Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA)
Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (University of Queensland, Australia)
Animal Cognition - Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster,
PA, USA)
Connectionist Models of High-Level Cognition - John Barnden (University of
Birmingham, UK)
Workshop: Advances in Analogy Research:
Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and
Neural Sciences
In parallel to the Summer School a workshop on analogy will take place
(July 17-20). For a description of the workshop see workshop announcement.
Plenary Talks
Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University, USA) Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD, USA) Analogy and Conceptual Integration
James Hampton (City Univ. London, UK) The role of similarity in how we
categorize the world
Jaime Carbonell (CMU, USA) Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to
the Creative
Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Qualitative Mental Models:
Simulations or Memories?
Graeme Halford (U. of Queensland, Australia) The Problem of Structural
Complexity in Cognitive Processes: A Metric Based on Representational Rank
Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada) Emotional Analogies
Usha Goswami (U. College London, UK) Analogical Reasoning in Children
Mark Keane (Trinity College, Ireland) Why Conceptual Combination is Seldom
Analogy
Adam Biela (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Analogical Resoning as a
Base for Structuring Cognitive Schemata in New Situations: A Case of
Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Countries
Dedre Gentner (NWU, USA) Comparison and Cognition
Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA) The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol System
Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria) Analogy is like Cognition: Complex,
Emergent, Context-Sensitive
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Cognitive Science Society
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Haralanova
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Course Abstracts
Mappings in Thought and Language - Gilles Fauconnier (U of California San
Diego, USA)
The course will deal with some of the general cognitive operations that
underlie the construction of meaning and the use of language. We will
focus on mental space mappings, conceptual blending, analogy, metaphor and
framing. We will examine some important linguistic and non-linguistic
phenomena: counterfactual reasoning, tense and mood, reference and
viewpoint in spoken and signed languages, blending with material anchors,
fictive motion, grammatical constructions, interface design, conceptual
underpinnings of mathematics and other forms of creative thought. Gilles
Fauconnier is the author of a recent book with the same title as well as of
Mental Spaces. He is a professor of Cognitive Science at the University of
California, San Diego and one of the leading cognitive linguists in the
world.
Coherence in Thought and Action - Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada)
This course concerns how people make sense of each other and the world they
live in and presents a new theory how coherence play an important role in
thinking, actions, emotions, and in cognition in general.. Making sense is
the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of
mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions.
Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as
constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can
be given coherence-based solutions. Paul Thagard is a Prof. of Philosophy
and the author of Conceptual Revolutions, Computational Philosophy of
Science, Mental Leaps, and a number of other books. He is currently the
President-elect of the Cognitive Science Society.
Analogy-Making - Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Boicho
Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
This course presents the psychological data and theories about how human
beings make analogies: how they retrieve appropriate bases from memory, how
they map the two domains, how they transfer knowledge from one domain to
the other, etc. The role of structural isomorphism between the two domains
and the systematicy principle will be outlined. Other factors as the role
of semantic and pragmatic constraints on mapping and retrieval, as well as
of the representation building process will be discussed. Various theories
and models will be presented and all these models will be compared with the
data from psychological experiments. The developmenta of analogolical
reasoning in children and infants will be discussed. Dedre Gentner is a
Prof. of Psychology and past Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive
Science Society. She is on the editorial boards of Cognitive Science,
Psychological Review, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, Journal of Learning
Sciences, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
She is one of the leading persons and the founders of the field of analogy
research.
Concepts and Categorization - James Hampton (City University London, UK)
Summary: The course will review current psychological models of how
conceptual categories are represented in memory. Each model will be
presented together with a critique of its range of applicability, and an
evaluation in terms of (a) empirical evidence and (b) philosophical
arguments about the role that concepts must play in thought and language.
The course will combine a tutorial presentation of current models and
theory with a review of recent empirical work in the field.
Decision Making - Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA)
This course presents psychological theories and data about how people make
decisions, how they make choices, what are the structures, attributes and
relations they are basing their decisions on, models of choice that borrow
heavily from work in economics, the heuristics and biases approach to
choice first championed by Kahneman and Tversky, a variety of process
models of choice including Payne, Bettman and Johnson's effort-accuracy
model, and the dynamics of choice. Research both in psychology and in
consumer behavior suggests that preferences are often constructed at the
time a choice is made. This construction involves formation of the choice
set, comparison of options, and evaluation of options relative to active
goals. Arthur Markman is a Prof. of Psychology and the author of many
publications on similarity, decision-making, analogy.
Creative Cognition - Thomas Ward (Texas A&M Univ, USA)
This course is concerned with the cognitive processes and structures that
underlie creative or generative thought. It will begin with a brief
examination of traditional approaches to creativity, but will shift quickly
to concentrate primarily on recent developments in cognitive science that
hold the promise of achieving a more complete understanding of creative
functioning. We will cover laboratory and applied research studies, and we
will consider the extent to which research findings support or contradict
more anecdotal reports of the processes involved in real-world instances of
creativity. The recent cognitive science advances will be considered
within the organizing framework of the creative cognition approach. That
approach seeks to understand creative functioning in terms of the
application of fundamental cognitive processes to existing knowledge
structures. It seeks to understand when and how otherwise similar
processes and structures sometimes produce creative outcomes and sometime
produce noncreative outcomes. Thomas Ward is Professor of Psychology and
the author of many publications and books on creative processes.
Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (U. of Queensland, Australia)
This course will present psychological theories and data on the development
that infants and children undergo in their cognitive abilities. Questions
like what is innate and what is acquired will be in the focus of attention.
Graeme Halford is Prof. of Psychology and author of many books on Cognitive
Development.
Comparative Animal Cognition - Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA, USA)
A comparative overview of recent advances in the study of animal cognition
and their implications for theory and method in cognitive science. Under
what circumstances - and why - are we willing to attribute purpose,
intelligence, intentionality, mental states, reasoning, language and
personal autonomy to other animals? Are we humans alone in these and other
cognitive capacities such as self-awareness? How might we know?
Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli (Stanford, USA)
This course surveys current theory and findings about the functional neural
architecture of human learning, memory, and thought. Specific topics are
the brain bases of (1) explicit or declarative long-term memory; (2)
implicit or procedural long-term memory; (3) short-term and working memory;
and (4) problem-solving and reasoning capacities. The consequences of
focal (stroke, resection) and degenerative (Huntington's disease,
Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, aging) lesions upon specific
components of learning, memory, and thought are reviewed. Also reviewed
are recent findings with functional neuroimaging techniques such as
positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI). These findings are related to cognitive research to
provide a cognitive neuroscience perspective on human learning, memory, and
thought.
Connectionist Models of High-Level Cognition - John Barnden (U of
Birmingham, UK)
The course will cover the system requirements imposed by high-level
cognitive tasks such as commonsense reasoning, natural language discourse
understanding, and scene understanding, and will consider possibilities for
meeting those requirements in connectionist models. The course will present
the considerable difficulties involved in doing so, and will outline a
number of connectionist models and approaches that have been developed in
the direction of meeting the requirements. It will also address some types
of high-level task that have largely been ignored in discussions between
connectionist and non-connectionists, such as reasoning about other agents'
mental states. John Barnden in Professor in Artificial Intelligence and the
author of many books and papers on beliefs and intentions, connectionist
systems for reasoning, including analogy/case-based reasoning, etc.
Meghivo
Az ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeke szervezeseben
kerul sor a kovetkezo eloadasra:
"Varieties of Relatedness between Science and its Research Objects:
A Psychological Analysis"
Gunther Fleck
Military Psychology Service Department of Philosophy of Science
Sub-dept of Aviation Psychology University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria
Az eloadas idopontja: aprilis 28, kedd, 18 ora
helye: Budapest, Rakoczi u. 5. II. em. 229. terem
Abstract:
Every scientific investigation is based on a particular epistemological
stance (mindset) determining the kind of relationship between the
researcher and his or her object. It is argued that the acquisition and
taking up of a particular epistemological stance towards an object does
not represent a pure rational choice, rather affective processes do play
an important role. Normally, the affective part of an epistemological
stance is not conscious. To make it conscious active self-reflection of
the scientist is necessary.
Via the demonstration of two dominating scientific world views, the
positivistic-mechanistic-reductionistic on the one hand, the
organismic-systemic one on the other hand, an attempt is going on to be
made to work out the underlying implicit affective parts. Especially, it
will be shown that both the ability of an individual (scientist) to
create boundaries towards the world and the ability to transcend
these boundaries, thereby coping with appearing anxieties, are essential.
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk. udv kgy
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George Kampis, Associate Professor, Chairman,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
ELTE University, Budapest, H-1088 Rakoczi u. 5., Hungary
Phone/FAX: (36) 1 266 4954 email: gk(a)hps.elte.hu
http://hps.elte.hu ftp://hps.elte.hu
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-----------------------Final Call for Papers -------------------------------
European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998 (EWLR-7) - Edinburgh, 20 July 1998
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The seventh European Workshop on Learning Robots will take place at the
Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in
Scotland, on the 20th of July 1998, immediately before the International
Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS-98).
Introduction
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Robot Learning is an area of interest to many different scientific fields
such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Neuroscience,
and Cognitive Science. The main goal of EWLR-7 is to bring together
researchers of different scientific fields working on or interested in
Robot Learning. EWLR envisages to be an interdisciplinary workshop
and aims to stimulate an exchange of ideas across the different fields.
EWLR has good foundations to achieve this ambitious goal. The European
Machine Learning and Robotics community has already organised a series of
six successful workshops (Vienna (1993), Torino (1994), Heraklion (1995),
Karlsruhe (1995), Bari (1996), Brighton (1997)) incorporating researchers
from various fields over the years.
Scope
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Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
* Learning and Adaptation in robot control
* Reinforcement learning
* Robot implementations of human motor learning mechanisms
* Evolutionary learning in robots
* Connectionist approaches to robot learning
* Machine learning techniques applied to robot problems
* Learning from interaction with humans
* Learning by observation, imitation, and cooperation
* Learning in multi-robot systems
* Industrial applications of robot learning
* Hardware issues in learning robots including Evolware
* Robot-Learning and cognition
The EWLRs focus on - but are *not* restricted to - European research.
Program Committee
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* Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan.
* Luc Berthouze, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan.
* Daniel Bullock, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department, Boston
University, USA.
* Thomas Christaller, GMD, Germany.
* Kerstin Dautenhahn, Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK.
* Edwin De Jong, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, VUB, Belgium.
* Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
* Ruediger Dillmann, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany.
* Philippe Gaussier, Neurocybernetics group, ETIS, ENSEA, France.
* John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
* Gillian Hayes, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
* Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan.
* Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA, CSIC, Spain.
* Henrik Lund, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark.
* Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California and ERATO / Japan Science
and Technology Corporation.
* Patrick van der Smagt, Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics, German
Aerospace Research.
* Hendrik Van Brussel, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
* Jun Tani, Sony Computer Science Lab, Tokyo, Japan.
* Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
* Carme Torras, Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial, UPC, Spain.
* Jeremy Wyatt, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
Important Dates
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* May 1, deadline for submission of papers.
* June 2, notification of acceptance/rejection.
* July 3, deadline for submission of final manuscripts.
* July 20, workshop in Edinburgh.
Submission information
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Electronic submission is encouraged. Submitted papers (max 10 A4 pages,
two columns, single-spaced, body text size 10 pt, LaTeX files available
at the workshop's WWW page) should be in postscript format (try using
'gzip' and 'uuencode' to reduce the size, and check whether the size of
the file you are sending is within the size limits of your e-mailer),
and should be sent to ewlr7(a)dai.ed.ac.uk
Alternatively, 5 hard-copies of the paper should be submitted to REACH the
chair by the deadline.
Papers should include full contact details (including email addresses)
and affiliation of authors.
Publication
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All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the workshop,
which will be available at the workshop. Similar to last year, we aim to
publish a selection of the best papers in a book (last year's publisher
was Springer-Verlag, LNAI).
Facilities available at the venue
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The audio-visual equipment available at the venue includes overhead
projectors, slide projectors, and barco projector connected to video player
(PAL/NTSC), to UNIX colour X-terminal (connected to the Internet for live
demos if needed), and to PC machines running MS-Windows. The venue is next
to the Mobile Robots Research Laboratory, where standard RWI and Khepera
robots are available for live demonstrations if authors are interested. Sun
and Intel-based workstations are also available, and all possible technical
support will be given to people that would be interested in bringing along
their own robots for demonstrations.
EWLR-8 in 1999
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In addition to this call for papers for EWLR-7, proposals are invited
for the organisation of EWLR-8. Please send submissions to the
organisers, who will collect them and present them during EWLR-7 for
selection from the attendees. Since this is the second time that the
workshop is being organised in the UK, proposals from other parts of
Europe are particularly welcome.
Organisers
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Chair Co-Chair
John Demiris Andreas Birk
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
University of Edinburgh Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Brussels, Belgium
johnde(a)dai.ed.ac.uk cyrano(a)arti.vub.ac.be
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Kedves kollegak !
A pecsi evolucios szekcioulesunkkel kapcsolatban kuldom az ujabb
levelet. Ez mar vegleges.
Sikerult a korabbiakban kozoltnel valamivel tobb idot kapnunk, egy
kiegeszito orat, 11h30 es 12h30 kozott
Aprilis 16-an, csutortokon ket reszben tartjuk a szekciot, mindkettot
a Pecsi Janus Pannonius Tudomanyegyetem Pollack Mihaly Muszaki Karan.
11h30 - 12h30 017-es terem
14h30 - 18h00 011-es terem
Az eloadasok besosztasa
Elnezest kerek, hogy ezt nem sikerult senkivel egyeztetnem, csak a
szervezokkel, a nyomda surgette oket.
Altalanos diszkutalo: Kampis Gyorgy lesz.
Reszletek: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Mindenkit szerettel varunk.
1998. aprilis 16.
delelott: elmelet I. - elnok: Csanyi Vilmos
11h30 - 11h40 Nanay Bence: Az elme mint evolucios rendszer
11h40 - 11h50 Topal Jozsef: Tudathipotezisek a kognitiv etologiai
vizsgalatok tukreben
11h50 - 12h10 Miklosi Adam: Allati modellek az emberi evolucio
kutatasaban
12h10 - 12h20 Bende Istvan: A jatek mint helyettesito cselekves...
12h20 - 12h30 Diszkusszio
delutan: elmelet II. - elnok: Bereczkei Tamas
14h30 - 14h50 Pleh Csaba: Az evolucios szemlelet a pszichologiaban:
felmerulese, eltunese s ujra megjelenese
14h50 - 15h10 Csanyi Vilmos: A human viselkedeskomplexum evolucioja
15h10 - 15h20 Kaldy Zsuzsa: (R)Evolucios pszichologia?
15h20 - 15h40 Banyai Eva: A hipnozis evolucios ertelmezese
15h40 - 16h00 Diszkusszio es kave
delutan: empirikus munkak - elnok: Banyai Eva
16h00 - 16h20 Bereczkei Tamas: Reproduktiv strategiak magyarorszagi
cigany populaciokban
16h30 - 16h40 Csanaky Andras, Bereczkei Tamas: A szocializacio
evolucios palyai: kedvezotlen csaladi kornyezetbol szarmazo gyerekek
szexualis es reproduktiv strategiai
16h40 - 16h50 Voros Szilvia, Bereczkei Tamas, Gal Agnes, Bernath
Laszlo: Adaptiv dontesek es trade-off mechanizmusok a parvalasztasban
16h50 - 17h10 Gergely Gyorgy: A kontingencia-detekcios modul szerepe
a korai reprezentacios es szocio-emocionalis fejlodesben illetve az
autizmus etiologiajaban
17h10 - 17h20 Diszkusszio (Terestyeni Tamas elmarad)
17h20 - 17h30 Doka Antal: A fajok kozotti kommunikacio etologiai es
pszichologiai problemai
17h30 - 17h40 Kiss Szabolcs: A naiv tudatelmelet
evolucios megkozelitese
17h40 - 17h50 Balogh Tibor: Egy meg nem szuntetheto megorzes
posztmodern interpretacioi
17h50 - 18h00 Diszkusszio
A helyi szervezoktol hallom, hogy talan tobben nem fizettek. Laszlo
Janos uzenetet tolmacsolom: aki csak 1 napra jon, az ott helyben
fizethet kedvezmenyes 2000 Ft reszveteli dijat.
Kozlekedesi informaciok:
Intercity (helyjegy kell) Bidapest, Deli 7h20 - Pecs 9h48, ott var
majd valaki. Igazabol Bereczkei Tamas kuldhetne egy diakot talan,
mert magam meg egy masik ulesen leszek.
Visszafele: gyorsvonat Pecs 19h00 - Budapest, Deli 22h43.
A programot mindenki megkapja postan is, aki jelentkezett, illetve az
eloadoknak magam mar elkuldtem!
Csaba Pleh
associate professor
Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U
Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378
T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933
Csaba Pleh
associate professor
Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U
Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378
T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933
