MEGHIVO
Az ELTE BTK Pszichologiai Doktori Iskolaja meghivja az erdeklodoket
KISS SZABOLCS:
"A NAIV TUDATELMELET TERMESZETE ES KIALAKULASA"
cimu Ph.D. disszertaciojanak nyilvanos vitajara.
A vita helye: ELTE BTK Kari Tanacsterem, Budapest, V., Piarista koz
1. I. em.
A vita idopontja: 1999. december 10. pentek, 14 ora.
A disszertacio megtekintheto az ELTE BTK Pszichologiai Intezetenek
Konyvtaraban. Budapest, VI., Izabella u. 46.
THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT:
THE TOP 100 WORKS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Presented by The Center for Cognitive Sciences at the
University of Minnesota
They've done it for novels, movies, and who knows what else!
And now we ask for your help in compiling a list of the 100
most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th
century. We'll accept and list nominations on our web site
http://cogsci.umn.edu/millennium/home.html
until mid-December 1999. Then an esteemed panel of experts will
evaluate the nominations and arrive at a rank-ordered list
of the top 100 entries. In January 2000, we'll post this
"Top 100" for the world to admire and grumble about
(assuming our web server is Y2K compliant). Then, we'll all
have our reading set for the 21st century!
Please have a look at our growing list. Is your favorite
book or article there? Contribute a nomination, or add a
comment, pro or con, to an existing nomination. Come back
often!
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
November 29
12:30
6. em. 6.54
M a t o l c s i T a m a s
ELTE TTK Alkalmazott Analizis Tanszek
UJ PARADOXONOK A RELATIVITASELMELETBEN
Ket paradoxon jelent meg az utobbi tiz evben. Az egyik a
sebesseg-osszeadasi paradoxon, a masik a fenysebessegi paradoxon.
Mindketto (mint a paradoxonok altalaban) ki nem mondott, termeszetesnek
vett, de nem helytallo feltetelezesbol adodik, es mindezert a
relativitaselmelet szokasos targyalasa felelos, amelyben pontosan meg
nem hatarozott fogalomra, a tehetetlensegi megfigyelo intuitiv fogalmara
alapoznak. A paradoxonok lenyeget es feloldasat egy pontos modell
keretein belul targyalom.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
A Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Filozofiai es Tortenettudomanyok Osztalya
1999. december 16-an Kardos Lajos szuletesenek szazadik evfordulja
alkalmabol jubileumi osztalyulest rendez.
Az ules helye: MTA Szekhaz Felolvaso terem (Roosevelt ter I.e.)
Az ules ideje: 1999. december 16, csutortok 14 ora.
A 40 perces eloadast egy 1975-ben keszult televizios fil bemutatsa koveti.
KARDOS LAJOS EMLEKEZETE
Pleh Csaba eloadas kivonata
Az eloadas Kardos Lajos munkassaganak elso mozzanatakent a latas
konstancia jelensegeivel kapcsolatos kutatasait eleveniti fel. Ramutat
arra, hogyan mutatta a kor szervezodeskozpontu szellemet es finom
fenomenologiajat a kontextualis kiserletezes, s ugyanakkor milyen sajatos
felhangot ad ennek Kardosnal a matematizalas. Kardosnak a hatvanas evek
elmeleti irasaiban jelenik ez meg ujra, mint az erzekeles s kulonosen a
konstanciak kibernetikus ujraertelmezese.
Kardos Lajos osszehasonlito lelektani munkassagaval harom evtizeden at
egyseges elmelet kialakitasara torekedett. Ennek kiindulo mozzanata az
allati viselkedes ekvivalencia viszonyainak ertelmezese illetve a
helytanulas problemaja. Ezekbol az eloszor a harmincas evekben
megfogalmazott kerdesekbol bontakozott ki az allati mnemikus mezo elmelete
illetve azok a kiserletek, amelyek az emlekek helyhez kotottsege
tekinteteben vetik ossze az embert mas emlosokkel.
Kiter az eloadas Kardos Lajos keves viszhangot kapott elmeletere
a lelki elet keletkezeserol, ramutatva, hogy milyen rokonsag van az ott
bemutatott informacios mozzanat es a mai reprezentacios onallosodasi
felfogasok kozott.
Kardos kutatasi es emberi stilusaban, mikozben errol igen keveset
beszelt, jol nyomonkovetheto a becsi szellem hatsa. Megjelenik
ez temavalasztasaiban es metaforaiban, de abban is, ahogyan a nehez
kerdesekben is finom fogalmi elemzesre es nyelvi szigorusagra torekszik.
Olyan orokseg ez, melyre a tudomany viszonylagossagat hangsulyozo
korunkban ugy kell emlekeznunk, mint annak bizonysagara, hogy a klasszikus
kutatoi hozzaallas evtizedek mulva is ervenyes s ujraolvashato
eredmenyeket hoz, mint azt Kardos korai munkainak mai "felfedezese" is
mutatja.
WORKSHOP ON THE PROBLEM OF QUANTUM MEASUREMENT
6-7 December, 1999, Eotvos University, Budapest
Website: http://hps.elte.hu/Workshop/workshop.htm
Organizers:
Miklos Redei and Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University
Sponsored by:
Eotvos University
Ministry of Education
Stiftung Aktion Osterreich - Ungarn
Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office
___________
The workshop consists of Keynote Addresses and Panel Discussions about
the different approaches to the problem of quantum measurement. The
emphasizes are laid upon the Panel Discussions; The Keynote Addresses
are only aimed to sum up the main ideas of the most important approaches
to the foundational questions of quantum mechanics, rather than to
expound someone's personal views or results.
P a n e l i s t s:
GYULA BENE (Theoretical Physics, Eotvos, Budapest)
THOMAS BREUER (Philosophy, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg)
DENNIS DIEKS (Hist. and Found. of Math. and Natural Sci., Univ.of
Utrecht)
LAJOS DIOSI (Research Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest)
TAMAS GESZTI (Physics of Complex Systems, Eotvos, Budapest)
BARRY LOEWER (Philosophy, Rutgers, New Jersey)
TOMASZ PLACEK (Philosophy, University of Cracow)
MIKLOS REDEI (HPS, Eotvos, Budapest)
MICHAEL STOELTZNER (Institute of Vienna Circle, Vienna)
LASZLO E. SZABO (Theor. Phys. and HPS, Eotvos, Budapest)
PIETER VERMAAS (Philosophy, Delft University of Technology)
GREGOR WEIHS (Experimental Physics, University of Vienna)
Venue:
Kari Tanacsterem, 7th floor, Eotvos University, Faculty of Science,
Pazmany P. setany 1/A, Budapest. (About location:
http://hps.elte.hu/dept/Location.htm)
PROGRAM:
6 December, Monday
8:55 Opening
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Chairman: P. Vermaas
9:00 - 9:35 Neumann's theory of quantum measurement (Geszti)
Break
9:45 - 10:20 The many world - many mind interpretation (Loewer)
10:20 - 11:00 The modal interpretations (Dieks)
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:05 GRW and the likes (Diosi)
Lunch
Chairman: L. Diosi
14:00 - 14:30 The statistical interpretation (Szabo)
14:30 - 15:05 Decoherence theories (Bene)
Coffee break
DISCUSSION Chairman: M. Redei
15:35 - 16:40 /Break /16:55 -18:00
Can we agree on criteria a tenable interpretation of quantum mechanics
should (minimally) satisfy? What is the ontological status of the wave
function? Does an individual object have a wave function at all? If wave
function is assigned to an individual object, in what sense does it
represent probability distributions? If not, does it reflect anything
objective about an individual system? How can we identify the system's
wave function experimentally? If a wave function does represent a
probability distribution, then what is it a probability distribution of?
Can we talk about the system's wave function experimentally without any
reference to classical concepts?
7 December, Tuesday
DISCUSSION Chairman: M. Stoeltzner
9:00 -10:30
Is quantum measurement paradox the same problem as Schrodinger's cat? Is
there any physical meaning of the fact that a quantum state is a
superposition of other states, independently of the measurement problem?
If the quantum state of a microscopic system is a\psi_A + b\psi_B, is it
true that one or other of these states has been realized? And what if
"microscopic" is replaced by "macroscopic"? Can we test superpositions
experimentally? What happens when an outcome of a quantum measurement
occurs? Does the wave function collapse? Are the following terms
synonyms: 'to be in a quantum state', 'event', 'the state of the
world/affairs', 'property', 'actualization of a potentiality', 'a
variable takes value', 'property ascription', 'value assignment'? Is it
true that before throwing a dice its wave function is a superposition of
six wave functions belonging to the six numbers? Is quantum measurement
a special kind of process or is it just one of the usual physical
processes?
Coffee break
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chairman: T. Geszti
11:00 - 11:30 Endophysical aspect of the quantum measurement problem
(Breuer)
DISCUSSION Chairman: G. Weihs
11:30 - 13:00
Is there anything particular in quantum measurements with respect to the
epistemic status of measurements in general? Does measurement involve
consciousness or mind in any way? Does indeed quantum cosmology pose a
challenge for quantum measurement theory? Is there any difference
between quantum mechanical statements about the whole universe and other
(classical) statistical statements about the whole universe? Does
universal validity of laws of QM imply that they must provide a
detailed, "complete and exhaustive" description of physical processes?
Should QM account for quantum measurement at all? Do the laws governing
a system differ when you're inside the system from those you see when
you look at the system from the outside? More particularly, can we
formulate QM or other physical theory without any reference to directly
observable (macroscopic) phenomena?
Lunch
DISCUSSION Chairman: T. Placek
15:00 - 16:30
What does it mean that a physical quantity "has a value"? Should the
Kochen-Specker theorem be interpreted by saying that 1) some physical
quantities have no value? 2) the system has no ontologically relevant
intrinsic properties? When do we say that a system possesses a property?
How to translate the following vocabulary into the terms of
observations: actual and potential properties, sharp and non-sharp
values, definite (and indefinite?) outcome? Do objective (ontologically
relevant) properties of a (quantum) system (if there are any) supervene
on "physical quantities" modeled by quantum observables? Or just the
other way round? Why do we prefer to abuse our everyday logic with such
sentences like "it is true that a specific fish weights 4 kilos, but it
is neither true nor false that the same fish weights 5 kilos", rather
than to accept superluminal causal effects? Coffee break
DISCUSSION Chairman: D. Dieks
17:00 18:00
Should QM account for (at least the possibility of ) a consistent
understanding of micro- and macrophysical world in terms of
ontologically relevant properties of a system, or is it enough if it can
consistently explain the measurement processes only? Do decoherence
theories provide such explanation? Should QM account for the specific
classical outcome of an experiment or the human impression that a
specific classical outcome occurs? Should we forget the measurement
paradox and the likes when we will have a local hidden variables theory?
18:00 - 18:30 Closing remarks (Vermaas)
__________________________
PUBLICATION:
The whole workshop will be taped. With the help of the tape-record we
will put down a brief summary of the discussions and send it to the
participants. All participants are asked to elaborate and type his own
contribution.
PRELIMINARY MATERIALS (Links and further papers are available on
http://hps.elte.hu/Workshop/workshop.htm)
- Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox (R. A. Healey and G. Hellman,
eds.), Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998
- Diosi: Emergence of Classicality: From Collapse Phenomenologies to
Hybrid Dynamics
- Diosi: On hybrid dynamics of the Copenhagen dichotomic world
- Geszti: John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum mechanics
- Redei: Von Neumann's concept of quantum logic
- Szabo: Quantum measurement: on this side of paradox
- Szabo: Critical reflections on quantum probability theory
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
Kedves Kollegak !
Mint a Cognitive Sceince Quarterly c. uj lap egyik biztossagi atgja irom
ezt a levelet. A lenyegi keres, amit reszletekben is olvaashattok, hiogz
a szepen indulo lap (lasd az elso szam tartalmat) igencsak var cikkekt.
Kerlek, eljetek a lehetoseggel. Barmiben segitsegetekre tudok lenni,
kerlek, jelezzetk.
Udvozlettel
Pleh Csaba
The COGNITIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY (ISSN 1466-6553)
The first issue of CSQ will be published in February, 2000. It will
hopefully be somewhat longer than 128 pages (at the expense of issue #2,
since we have a limit of 512 pages per year) and contain the following
articles, given here in alphabetical order: -- Margaret A. Boden:
Autopoiesis and life. -- Daničle Dubois: Categories as acts of meaning:
The case of categories in olfaction and audition. -- Trevor B. Penney,
Axel Mecklinger, H. John Hilton & Lynn A. Cooper: Priming and recognition
of novel 3D objects: Guidance from event-related potentials. -- Paul
Thagard: Probabilistic networks and explanatory coherence. -- Stefan Wahl
& Hans Spada: Children's reasoning about intentions, beliefs and
behaviour.
I'm glad that we have such a strong issue to start with. For marketing,
we'll put the whole issue (full text) on our web site from about December,
15, onward: http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/csq So everything
seems perfect.
==> The weak point is: WE ARE IN NEED OF SUBMISSIONS. In fact, I still got
nothing beyond issue #2, which means that we need urgently around ten to
twelve article submissions until January (February at the latest) in order
to be able to continue. Therefore, I appeal to you all to acquire suitable
submissions to CSQ from your co-workers and other colleagues you know.
PLEASE HELP CSQ TO BECOME A SUCCESS!!! All information needed by authors
is on our web site (Guidelines for authors, Word style sheets, etc.).
Last not least, some information on how to subscribe to CSQ: Subscription
rates per year, four issues (ca. 500 pages): Institutions: Europe 180,
outside Europe 195. Special low rates for individuals: Europe 50,
outside Europe 70 (Individual rates apply only if payment is made by
personal cheque or credit card and issues are sent to a personal address.)
Send email to hermes(a)iway.fr or write to: Hermes Science Publications ˇ 8,
quai du Marché-Neuf ˇ F-75004 Paris ˇ France.
Thank you very much,
Gerhard
----------------------
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Strube
Director, IIG, Univ. Freiburg, Friedrichstr. 50, D-79098 Freiburg, Germany
Tel. +49-761-203-4934, Secr. -4933; fax -4938 http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition
President, German CogSci Soc. (Ges. f. Kognitionswissenschaft) http://www.gk-ev.de
Editor, Cognitive Science Quarterly http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/csq
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
November 22
12:30
6. em. 6.54
K a m p i s G y o r g y
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
DARWIN: A FAJOK EREDETE
A nemsokara megjeleno uj forditas kapcsan arrol probalom meggyozni a
hallgatot, hogy "A fajok eredete" minden szempontbol modern es
elolvasasra erdemes mu. Rekonstrualom Darwin ervelesenek menetet, es
megtisztitom a nehol induktiv okoskodast deduktiv kovetkeztetessel
vegyito elemeitol. Kihangsulyozom azokat a pontokat, ahol Darwin jocskan
elebe megy a kesobbi, reszben meg mindig tarto evolucioelmeleti
vitaknak, es megbeszeljuk, miert nem utolagos belemagyarazas ez.
Parhuzamot vonok az eredeti mu gondolatvilaga es szamos olyan mai
fejlemeny kozott is, amelyek az evolucio biologiai, pszichologiai,
nyelveszeti, szocialis vagy filozofiai altalanositasait keresik. Vegul
kiterek arra, hogy miert igazolja Darwin muve a fajok leszarmazassal
valo keletkezeset, es honnan tudjuk, hogy nem olvastak a muvet azok,
akik ebben ketelkednek. Az inyencek a szunetben Darwin tevedeseivel es
mas faramucisagokkal mulathatjak az idot.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
Professor Csaba Pleh
Cognitive Science Group
Department of Psychology
JATE University, Szeged Petofi sgt. 30, H-6722
Hungary
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
Home: Budakeszi, Zichy P. u 4, 2092
Phone: (36)(23)453933
Fax: (36)(23)453932, email: pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
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001 - Zenon Pylyshyn <zenon@ruc - Rutgers; Postdocs in Cognitive/Vision Science
002 - Anne P Hillstrom <hillstr - graduate training, University of Texas at Arlington
003 - RS.Anderson(a)ulst.ac.uk - Lecturer in Optometry/Vision Science, Univ of Ulster
VisionScienceList Digest
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From: Zenon Pylyshyn <zenon(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Rutgers; Postdocs in Cognitive/Vision Science
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:30:38 -0500
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Rutgers: Post-Doctoral fellowships in Cognitive/Vision Science
The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science announces the availability of
several post-doctoral fellowships in Vision Research or Language
Studies. These awards, funded through the NIMH National Research Service
Award program, can begin in the spring or fall of 2000 for a term of one
year and may be renewed. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2000.
The vision research aspect of the Fellowship program, administered by
the Center for Cognitive Science, includes a large number of active
vision laboratories at Rutgers, New Brunswick and involves members of
the departments of psychology, computer science, biomedical engineering,
the School of Library and Information Science, the Laboratory of Vision
research, the Human Computer Interaction Group, the Digital Libraries
Group, and CAIP (a New Jersey Technology Center). The "Human and Machine
Vision" group is a group of researchers who sponsor a regular series of
talks and seminars by visiting researchers. New Brunswick, NJ is close
to New York City and the geographical area includes a large
concentration of academic and industrial research laboratories carrying
out research on vision, with which we have had collaborative relations.
The personnel and facilities for vision and vision-related research at
Rutgers are world class.
For more information on the Center and the NRSA Training program, which
also includes predoctoral fellowships, visit
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/NRSA-info.html.
For more specific information on the Postdoctoral Fellowships, visit
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/NRSA-postdoc.html and the links found there. An
online Notice of Application form (for letting us know that a full
application is on its way) is available at:
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/NRSA-applic.html.
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From: Anne P Hillstrom <hillstrom(a)uta.edu>
Subject: graduate training, University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:55:34 -0600
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The Cognitive group of the Psychology Department at the University of Texas
at Arlington is a small, active group that provides a graduate education
focused on traditional cognitive research and quantitative skills. We aim
the education towards students who will be pursuing academic careers, but
because of the strong quantitative aspect to the education, many of our
students have been successful at competing for industry jobs as well.
Students typically begin their work with a single advisor but are encouraged
to do research with other faculty members as they progress. The more
perceptually inclined faculty are Ira Bernstein and Anne Hillstrom, and the
rest of the cognitive faculty are Harriett Amster, Terry Barnhardt, Jim
Erickson, David Gorfein, and Dan Levine. The department, which is part of
UTA's College of Science, also has strength in personality & social
psychology, developmental psychology, physiological psychology, animal
learning/behavior, and neuroscience.
In addition to the basic assistantship that many of our students receive, in
the coming year the university has made available a special supplemental
fund for qualified incoming students. UTA is in the heart of the Dallas/Ft.
Worth metroplex in Texas.
If you know of students who might be interested in pursuing their cognitive
graduate degree at UTA, please ask them to contact Anne Hillstrom
(hillstrom(a)uta.edu) or look at the department's web page
(http://www.uta.edu/psychology) or both.
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From: RS.Anderson(a)ulst.ac.uk
Subject: Lecturer in Optometry/Vision Science, Univ of Ulster
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:32:02 GMT
University of Ulster
Faculty of Science
School of Biomedical Sciences
Lecturer in Optometry and Vision Science at Coleraine
(Ref: C99/453)
One Year fixed term post initially (with possible renewal up to five years)
The post-holder will be expected to contribute to teaching and/or clinical
training of optometry students as well as enhancing the work of the Vision
Science Research Group. Development of Vision Science research is a stated
objective of the University's highly selective research strategy.
Applicants must possess an Honours degree in Vision Science or a related discipline,
and hold a Professional qualification in Optometry. At least three years experience in
Vision Science research and experience of supervising Optometry students during
clinical training are essential.
Salary: = 17,238 - 30,065 pounds per annum
Closing Date: 19 November 1999
Interview Date: 13 December 1999 (Provisional)
Further details and application form may be obtained from the Recruitment
Office, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co
Londonderry BT52 1SA, UK. Telephone: (0)1265 324946 or internal extension 4957.
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Rutgers Univertsity, New Jersey
ON PHYSICALISM
CEU, room 802
23 November, 1999 11:00 AM
_________________________________________________
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
