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[E-Conf] Provisional Pragram ICCS-99 (fwd)

by Csaba PLEH

27 years, 1 month

Adolf Grunbaum elozetes

by George Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, az elozo hirhez is kapcsolodoan, Adolf Grunbaum professzor (Pittsburg) jun 8-9.-en Budapesten lesz, eloadast fog tartani 9.-en a psichoanalizis temakoreben. Cim, absztrakt, helyszin kesobb, ez csak affele elozetes a kalendariumok vegett. Igyekszunk valami jo helyet talalni. udv kgy ===================================================================== George Kampis, Associate Professor, Chairman, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, ELTE University, 1518 Budapest, P.O. Box 32, Hungary Phone/FAX: (36) 1 372 2924 email: gk(a)hps.elte.hu http://hps.elte.hu/~gk ftp://hps.elte.hu =====================================================================

27 years, 2 months

Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (fwd)

by George Kampis

Ha tobbszoros hir, elnezest, de valaki szolt hogy o nem tud rola, ime, udv kgy ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science Philosophical Problems in the Neurosciences Konstanz, Germany Wednesday, May 26 - Saturday, May 29, 1999 The Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science is the joint undertaking of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie of the University of Konstanz. The Colloquium consists of a series of biennial international conferences that alternate between Pittsburgh and Konstanz. Wednesday, May 26 9:15 Opening Ceremony 9:30-11:00 Opening Lecture: "Consciousness: A Neurological Perspective" Speaker: Paul Schoenle (Medicine, Kliniken Schmieder Allensbach and University of Konstanz) Commentator: Peter Machamer (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) 11:00 - 1:00 "Origin and Development of Neuroscience" Speaker: Olaf Breidbach (History of Science, University of Jena) Commentator: Claude Debru (History of Medicine, University of Strasbourg) 1:00 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 "Theory Structure in Neuroscience" Speaker: Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg) Commentator: Peter McLaughlin (Philosophy, University of Konstanz) 4:30 - 6:00 "On the Nature of Explanation in the Neurosciences" Speaker: Antti Revonsuo (Philosophy, University of Turku) Commentator: Ansgar Beckermann (Philosophy, University of Bielefeld) Thursday, May 27 9:30 - 11:00 "Causality and Explanation in the Neurosciences" Speaker: Thomas Metzinger (Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst) Commentator: Wolfgang Spohn (Philosophy, University of Konstanz) 11:30 - 1:00 "Evidence and Types of Data" Speaker: James Bogen (Philosophy, Pitzer College) Commentator: Robert Olby (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) 1:00 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 "The Explanatory Power and Limits of Simulation Models in the Neurosciences." Speaker: Holk Cruse (Biology, University of Bielefeld) Commentator: Klaus Mainzer (Philosophy, University of Augsburg) 6:00 Evening Lecture: A Pragmatic Definition of the State of Being Conscious Speaker: Ernst P=F6ppel (Medical Psychology, University of Munich) Friday, May 28 9:30 - 11:00 "The Meanings of Computation and its Importance to Neuroscience" Speaker: Rick Grush (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) Commentator: Bruce Buchanan (Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh) 11:30 -1:00 "Extrapolation from Animal Models" Speaker: Kenneth Schaffner (Philosophy, George Washington University) Commentator: Juan Delius (Psychology, University of Konstanz ) 1:00 Lunch 2:00 Excursion Saturday, May 29 9:30 -11:00 "Discovering Mechanisms in Neuroscience" Speakers: Carl Craver and Lindley Darden (Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park) Commentator: German Barrionuevo (Neuroscience,University of Pittsburgh) 11:30 - 1:00 "The Relationship between Neurophysiological Mechanisms and Cognition" Speaker: William Bechtel (Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis) Commentator: Charles Perfetti (Psychology, University of Pittsburgh) 1:00 p.m. Closing Ceremony Lunch Generous financial support from the German-American Academic Council Foundation (Germany) and from the Harvey & Leslie Wagner Endowment (USA) is gratefully acknowledged. The conference fee is DM 130 and DM 80 for students. Four lunches and refereshments are included. Deadline for registration is April 29, 1999. Please check the Colloquium website at: www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/PittsburghKonstanzColl.html =09

27 years, 2 months

Dennett eloadas

by Pleh Csaba

Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) nyilvanos eloadasa a Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag es a Collegium Budapest szervezeseben 1999. marcius 25/en csutortokon 17 orakor lesz a Collegium Budapestben. Tema: A kultura es a meme-ek Mindenkit szeretettel varunk, Pleh Csaba

27 years, 2 months

Cajal On Consciousness (fwd)

by Gergely Csibra

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by ERDI(a)SUNSERV.KFKI.HU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:01:40 +0100 (MET) From: "Pedro C. [iso-8859-1] Mariju=E1n" <marijuan(a)posta.unizar.es> Reply-To: fis(a)listas.unizar.es To: Multiple recipients of list <fis(a)listas.unizar.es> Subject: Cajal On Consciousness PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ______________________________________________________ "CAJAL ON CONSCIOUSNESS" International centennial conference commemorating the publication of "Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados", by Santiago Ra= m=F3n y Cajal (1899), to be held in Zaragoza (Spain): Monday, November 29 - Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Web: http://cajal.unizar.es "Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados", published in 1899 by Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal (Madrid, N. Moya: 1899-1904), is the masterpiece of Spanish science and perhaps the most influential work in the history of the Neurosciences. To commemorate the centennial of its publication, the organizing Aragonese institutions are re-editing the book and holding a public discussion on Cajal=B4s seminal contributions to contemporary science. In this regard, and in collaboration with distinguished Spanish scientists, a dialogue with the most relevant figures of the international scientific community, from the Neurosciences as well as from other disciplines, has been organized. The topic chosen for the debate, the scientific approach to consciousness, is a leit motiv which continually underlies Cajal=B4s own work, and it has become a focal point f= or interdisciplinary dialogue at the turn of the millennium. Undoubtedly, it i= s one of the perennial engines of scientific progress --the ambition to understand the nature of our own consciousness. ______________________________________________________ TENTATIVE PROGRAM OPENING SESSION (Monday 29/11/99) David Chalmers (Arizona University) Ilya Prigogine (Universit=E9 Libre de Bruxelles) MIND AND MATTER (Tuesday 30/11/99) Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute) Harold J. Morowitz (Krasnow Institute, George Mason University) THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS Lynn Margulis (University of Massachusetts) Fran=E7ois Jacob (Institut Pasteur) THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE Terrence Sejnowsky (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California at Berkeley) Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) ROUND TABLE: Natural Sciences and Consciousness: Filling in a Historical Ga= p? THE "DOCTRINE OF THE NEURON" REVISITED (Wednesday 1/12/99) Jean-Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur) Eric Kandel (Columbia University) INFORMATION PROCESSING AND BRAIN ARCHITECTURE Torsten Wiesel (Rockefeller University) Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Petra Stoerig (University of Dusseldorf) THE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology) Stuart Hameroff (Center for Consciousness Studies) Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute) ROUND TABLE: Envisioning Future Breakthroughs CLOSING ADDRESS Floyd E. Bloom (Scripps Research Institute, Editor of "Science") ______________________________________________________ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Carlos Belmonte (Universidad Miguel Hern=E1ndez de Alicante) Alberto Ferr=FAs (Instituto Ram=F3n y Cajal-CSIC) Alberto Galindo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Antonio Garc=EDa Bellido (Centro de Biolog=EDa Molecular Severo Ochoa) Angel Mart=EDn Municio (Real Academia de Ciencias F=EDsicas y Naturales) Federico Mayor Zaragoza (UNESCO) Juan P=E9rez Mercader (Laboratorio de Astrof=EDsica y F=EDsica Fundamental,= INTA) Alberto Portera (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal Ag=FCeras (Cl=EDnica Puerta de Hierro) Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal Junquera (Universidad de Zaragoza) Javier S=E1daba (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Margarita Salas (Centro de Biolog=EDa Molecular Severo Ochoa) Constantino Sotelo (INSERM, Paris) Enric Trillas (Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid) CO-CHAIRS: Constantino Sotelo, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Alberto Portera SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT Pedro C. Mariju=E1n Departamento de Ingenier=EDa Electr=F3nica y Comunicaciones Centro Polit=E9cnico Superior, Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza 50015, Spain Tel. (34) 976 761 927 or 976 761 948. Fax (34) 976 762 111 marijuan(a)posta.unizar.es ______________________________________________________ ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS DIPUTACION GENERAL DE ARAGON UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA sponsored by IBERCAJA and CAI with the scientific collaboration of the Instituto Ram=F3n y Cajal (Madrid)= , and the Center for Consciousness Studies (Arizona) REGISTRATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION Technical Secretariat: DI&CO Paseo Sagasta 19, enlo. dcha. Zaragoza 50008, Spain Tel. (34) 976 211 748 or 976 229 952. Fax (34) 976 212 959 E-mail: dico(a)dico.es Web: http://cajal.unizar.es

27 years, 2 months

Int. Morphology Meeting 2000 (fwd)

by Csaba PLEH

9th INTERNATIONAL MORPHOLOGY MEETING Vienna February 25-27 (Fri - Sun), 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS MAIN THEMES: I. Comparative Morphology on a macro- and a micro-level, including typology, dialectology and diachrony II. Psycholinguistic/Mental Aspects of Morphology, including psychological, psycho- and neurolinguistic studies in morphology. MAIN REPORTERS CONFIRMED SO FAR: M. Baker, A. Carstairs-McCarthy, B. Comrie, G. Corbett, S. Gillis, M. Haspelmath, A. Kibrik, G. Libben, M. Loporcaro, D. Ravid, S. Steele If you would like to attend the meeting, please write to: Morphology Meeting (W.U. Dressler & D. Kastovsky) Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Berggasse 11/2/3 A-1090 Wien / Austria phone: +43-1-310 38 86 fax: +43-1-315 53 47 e-mail: morph(a)ling.univie.ac.at http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics For accomodation see the attached form (both accomodation and flights will be relatively cheap since February is off-season). There will be a fee of 60 Euros (students and unemployed colleagues 30 Euros), which includes drinks after registration and refreshments during the breaks. Those who pre-register after November 1, 1999 will have to pay 80 Euros. Preferably pay by credit card (Visa, Euro/MasterCard) 2-page abstracts for a 20 minutes presentation (plus 10 minutes discussion) should anonymously be sent by mail in tenfold, accompanied by a camera-ready original with the author's name, address, affiliation to the above address. Workshops can be held in the evenings or on February 24 and 28. If you want to organize a workshop, please contact us before April 30, 1999. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 1, 1999 ********************************************************************* PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO COLLEAGUES WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED AND (IF POSSIBLE) PRINT AND POST THE ATTACHMENT ! ********************************************************************* WORKSHOPS SO FAR ACCEPTED: "Computers and morphology: theoretical and descriptive issues" Dr. Ursula Doleschal Institut für Slawische Sprachen Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Augasse 2-6 A-1090 Wien e-mail: ursula.doleschal(a)wu-wien.ac.at Dr. Christiane Dalton-Puffer Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Wien Universitätscampus AAKH, Hof 8 A-1090 Wien fax: +43-1-4277 42 499 e-mail: christiane.dalton-puffer(a)univie.ac.at "Compound Processing" Prof. Gary Libben, Prof. Gonia Jarema & Prof. Eva Kehaiya (Prof. Libben up to June 1999: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität Wien Berggasse 11/2/3 A-1090 Wien) e-mail: Gary.Libben(a)UAlberta.ca "Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition" Prof. Wolfgang U. Dressler, Doz. Maria Voeykova, Mag. Sabine Klampfer Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität Wien Berggasse 11/2/3 A-1090 Wien e-mail: sabine(a)ling.univie.ac.at ******************************** You may be interested in an immediately following meeting on a related topic: "The Word", organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Marburg, Germany; March 1-3, 2000. Contact: Prof. Richard Wiese wiese(a)Mailer.Uni-Marburg.de http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~wiese/ ******************************** ******************************** 9th International Morphology Meeting REGISTRATION FORM Last name: .. .. First name: .. .. Institution: .. .. Address: .. .. City: .. .. Country: .. .. e-mail/FAX: .. .. REGISTRATION FEE: 60 Euros / 80 Euros MODE OF PAYMENT: O Eurocard / Mastercard O VISA O CASH ****************************************************************

27 years, 2 months

[E-Job] Graduate Positions at the UiL OTS (fwd)

by Csaba PLEH

Csaba Pleh Department of Psychology Attila Jozsef University, Szeged Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273 Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933 Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:07:36 +0100 From: UiL-OTS <UiL-OTS(a)let.uu.nl> To: Linguist(a)tamvm1.tamu.edu, colibri(a)let.uu.nl, elsnet-list(a)let.uu.nl, cogling_nl(a)let.uu.nl, neder-l(a)nic.surfnet.nl, uilots-staff(a)let.uu.nl, uilots-phd(a)let.uu.nl, uilots-info(a)let.uu.nl, lot-l(a)let.uu.nl, lotstaff-l(a)let.uu.nl, hil(a)letmail.let.leidenuniv.nl, lotphd-l(a)let.uu.nl Subject: [E-Job] Graduate Positions at the UiL OTS Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 99 23:42:48 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is a research institute of the faculty of arts of Utrecht University. About a hundred people are involved of which 12 full professors, 8 postdoc researchers and about 30 graduate students. The goal of UiL OTS is to develop scientific expertise in the area of language, speech and their use. It participates in the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics LOT and in the Graduate school of Logic OzsL. The research of UiL OTS comprises the following six areas: (i) Syntax and Semantics, (ii) Morphology & Phonology, (iii) Computational Linguistics & Logic, (iv) Phonetics, (v) Language Development, en (vi) Language Use. The research programme of UiL OTS brings together research from different strands of linguistics and related disciplines such as logic, computer science, cognitive sciences, teaching, and social sciences. Specific domains of interdisciplinary co-operation are: the lexicon, 1st and 2nd Language Acquisition, Language Teaching, Natural Language Processing, Text linguistics and Conversation-analysis, Translation Studies, Text-design and Language- and Speech technology. Within the Netherlands the UiL OTS is the only research institute which brings together all these different types of research. The research policy of UiL OTS is focused on making full use of the added value of this concentration of research and strengthen the national and international position of the institute. UiL OTS searches ambitious and enthousiastic candidates for 7 Graduate Positions in Linguistics Start: August 1, 1999. UiL OTS received additional funding for the coming 5 years from the Board of Utrecht University for the research programme "Language in Use". The goal of this programme is to gain insight in several fundamental questions in the area of Language structure, Language Processing and Language Acquisition by combining research methods from different subdisciplines and bringing together experts with different backgrounds. To this end the experimental and computer facilities of UiL OTS have been substantially improved. Against this background, we are especially looking for candidates to carry out research in one of the following areas of research: - The role of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors in the interpretation of referential dependencies. - The role of prosody in Language Structure and Language Processing. - The role of the Language Acquisition Device in first and second language acquisition as compared to general cognitive faculties and experience. - The construction of formal models of syntactic and semantic structure. In all these areas projects will be characterised by an interdisciplinary approach. Candidates are expected to be able to co-operate with researchers from different backgrounds. It is envisaged to assign 5 graduate positions to the programme "Language in Use". Two graduate positions will be available for the other areas of the UiL OTS research programme as it is sketched above. Candidates are invited to apply for a graduate position in one of these research fields. As part of their training, they will be able to follow courses in the graduate programmes of LOT and/or OzsL. Furthermore, candidates will carry out a research project. In each of the above-mentioned research areas projects have been formulated by the institute staff, but candidates may also apply on the basis of a proposal of their own. Such proposals will be evaluated against the research program of the institute. Summaries of the available projects will be sent to you on request. These summaries are also available on our Web-page: www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/graduatepositions.htm. Part of the selection procedure will be to elaborate a project proposal on the basis of a summary. We ask enthusiasm for scientific research and evident interest in one of the areas of research of UiL OTS. The candidate should have a relevant doctoraal, or equivalent (MA-)exam. Those who will finish their doctoraal/MA before August 1, 1999 are also eligible. We offer a stimulating and innovative research environment with many international contacts, a program which offers possibilities for education in a broad area of linguistics, good experimental facilities, bursaries for attending conferences and a monthly stipend. Contingent on progress the stipend will be available for four years. Information will be provided by professor Eric Reuland (academic director), tel. +31-30-256006, or Dr. Jan Don (program coordinator), tel. +31-30-2536065. Applications may be sent before March 22 to the Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands. Applications should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, two references, a list of academic results, and a written specimen of academic research (MA-thesis, paper, etc.) Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS UiL OTS voice: #31 (0)30-2536006 fax: #31 (0)30-2536000 postal address: Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands www-uilots.let.uu.nl - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : ELSNET European Network in Language and Speech - http://www.elsnet.org/ : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

27 years, 2 months

[E-Job] PhD STUDENTSHIP for October 1999 (fwd)

by Andras Mate

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 FEB 1999 10:42:25 GMT From: alex(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk To: luz(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: [E-Job] PhD STUDENTSHIP for October 1999 School for Cognitive Science, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for October 1999 Application deadline: March 31st 1999 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The School for Cognitive Science (SCS) within the Division of Informatics invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in October 1999. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Fragments in Dialogue". A summary of the aims of this project is given at the end of this message. Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Familiarity with current linguistic theory in syntax and semantics is essential. Applicants with expertise in HPSG and good programming skills will be preferred. EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other EU residents are eligible for fees only (and so would need to be able to support themselves during their studies). The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general information on EPSRC studentships, please consult: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm. The School for Cognitive Science has close research links with the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, which is also part of the Division of Informatics. Both the school and the institute were formed out of the Centre for Cognitive Science. The project "Fragments in Dialogue" is one of several projects on computational linguistics that are held within the Institute. In addition to having close connections with other researchers in the institute and elsewhere in the Division, the research on this project will also be closely related to ongoing research at CSLI, Stanford University. For more information about the School of Cognitive Science and the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), see the following home page: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/ Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form. Details on how to receive this form can be found by following the relevant links from the above URL (see http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/apply/). Please note that the above URLs still refer to the Centre for Cognitive Science, as these pages haven't been updated with the Centre's new identity. If we already have your application on file for consideration this year, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: March 31st 1999 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH8 3JZ Email: phd-admissions(a)inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "FRAGMENTS IN DIALOGUE" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Fragments in Dialogue", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 FRAGMENTS IN DIALOGUE: PROJECT SUMMARY People frequently produce utterances which aren't complete sentences, such as "Next Tuesday", "Perhaps on Tuesday" and "How about Tuesday?". In general, these utterances are comprehensible in the context of the dialogue, and their meaning is affected by the words used in the fragment, and the context in which they're uttered. In spite of recent advances in computational semantics, interpreting these so-called fragments is beyond the scope of current natural language processing technology. The aim of this project is to rectify this by doing the following two tasks: (a) provide a linguistically principled and computationally effective theory of the meaning of fragments, which does justice to both their grammatical constraints, and the ways in which pragmatic information in the context affects their interpretation; and (b) implement the result, and in particular, incorporate the grammatical theory of fragments into an existing wide-coverage on-line grammar, which can be used for both parsing and generation. - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : ELSNET European Network in Language and Speech - http://www.elsnet.org/ : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

27 years, 2 months

Tudomanyfilozofia Szeminarium, Boros Janos

by George Kampis

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A Tudomanyfilozofia Szeminarium ________________________________________________ Marcius 11. 12:30 6. em. 662 Boros Janos JPTE BTK Filozofiatortenet Tanszek A genofilozofiarol -- Nehany megjegyzes a genmanipulacio lehetseges kovetkezmenyeihez -- A molekularis biologia es a genkutatas olyan perspektivak lehetosegeit vetiti elore, amelyek meg fogjak valtoztatni az "emberrol" alkotott felfogasunkat, es filozofiai fogalomtarunk atgondolasat is kikenyszerithetik. Az ember biologiai melystrukturajanak "technologizalodasi" lehetosegevel az emberi szubjektum biologiai, pszichologiai, szociologiai, kulturalis es etikai fogalma is valtozni fog. A gentechnologia arra fog kenyszeriteni bennunket, hogy ujraertekeljunk olyan fogalmakat, mint szaporodas, individualitas, tortenelem, szabadsag es szubjektivitas. Az eloadasban elsosorban a "szabadsag" fogalmat fogom vizsgalni. Beszelhetunk meg egyaltalan emberi szabadsagrol, ha a genek manipulaciojaval teljesen meghatarozhatjuk az embert? Vagy talan inkabb a genmanipulatorok, vagy egy atvitt ertelemben a genek, semmint az ember szabadsagarol van szo? Ahogy Dennett az intencionalitas fogalmat kiterjeszti az embernel kevesbe ertelmes lenyekre is, metaforikus ertelemben a szabadsag fogalmat is ki lehet terjeszteni nalunk kevesbe ertelmes letezokre, peldaul a genekre. Ha a genek "dontenek" kulonbozo alternativak kozt, akkor atvitt ertelemben beszelhetunk a genek szabadsagarol, mint ami folulbiralja es iranyitja az emberi szabadsagot. Pontosabban fogalmazva: ha a genmanipulator dont a lehetseges strukturak kozt, akkor hol marad azon ember termeszetes szabadsaga, amelynek genstrukturajat elore meghatarozzak? A genek (a genmanipulatorok) mint "intencionalis" lenyek kodolnak bennunket embereket es valtozasaik az emberi leny atalakulasat eredmenyezhetik. Az eloadas kerdese, hogy ha a teljes emberi genomot megfejtik, es ha valamennyi gen valamennyi implikaciojat, funkciojat es hatasat felfedezik, es ezekkel a genekkel manipulaciokat fognak vegezni, akkor milyen fajta szabadsag, milyen fajta tortenelem, es egyaltalan milyen fajta "emberi leny" fogja tulelni ezt a helyzetet, azaz mi marad abbol az emberi lenybol, amit mi ma ismerunk? A szeminarium szervezoje:Szabo E. 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

27 years, 2 months

The Neurology of Syntax: BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article *** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS policies and address change at the bottom of this message) *** THE NEUROLOGY OF SYNTAX: LANGUAGE USE WITHOUT BROCA'S AREA by Yosef Grodzinsky 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 by April 8th to: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]: Behavioral and Brain Sciences ECS: New Zepler Building University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/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 with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. _____________________________________________________________ THE NEUROLOGY OF SYNTAX: LANGUAGE USE WITHOUT BROCA'S AREA Yosef Grodzinsky Department of Psychology Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL and Aphasia Research Center Department of Neurology Boston University School of Medicine yosef1(a)ccsg.tau.ac.il ABSTRACT: A new view of the functional role of left anterior cortex in language use is proposed. The experimental record indicates that most human linguistic abilities are not localized in this region. In particular, most of syntax (long thought to be there) is not located in Broca's area and its vicinity (operculum, insula and subjacent white matter). This cerebral region, implicated in Broca's aphasia, does have a role in syntactic processing, but a highly specific one: it is neural home to receptive mechanisms involved in the computation of the relation between transformationally moved phrasal constituents and their extraction sites (in line with the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis). It is also involved in the construction of higher parts of the syntactic tree in speech production. By contrast, basic combinatorial capacities necessary for language processing - e.g., structure building operations, lexical insertion - are not supported by the neural tissue of this cerebral region, nor is lexical or combinatorial semantics. The dense body of empirical evidence supporting this restrictive view comes mainly from several angles on lesion studies of syntax in agrammatic Broca's aphasia. Five empirical arguments are presented: experiments in sentence comprehension; cross-linguistic considerations (where aphasia findings from several language types are pooled together and scrutinized comparatively); grammaticality and plausibility judgments; real-time processing of complex sentences; and rehabilitation. Also discussed are recent results from functional neuroimaging, and from structured observations on speech production of Broca's aphasics. Syntactic abilities, nonetheless, are distinct from other cognitive skills, and represented entirely and exclusively in the left cerebral hemisphere. Although more widespread in the left hemisphere than previously thought, they are clearly distinct from other human combinatorial and intellectual abilities. The neurological record (based on functional imaging, split-brain and right-hemisphere damaged patients, as well as patients suffering from a breakdown of mathematical skills) indicates that language is a distinct, modularly organized neurological entity. Combinatorial aspects of the language faculty reside in the human left cerebral hemisphere, but only the transformational component (or algorithms that implement it in use) is located in and around Broca's area. KEYWORDS: agrammatism, aphasia, Broca's area, cerebral localization, dyscalculia, functional neuroanatomy, grammatical transformation, modularity, neuroimaging, syntax, trace-deletion. ____________________________________________________________ To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. 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