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From: "Mezei Balazs" <bmmezei(a)ludens.elte.hu>
To: <mafla(a)hps.elte.hu>, "koglist" <koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:33:00 +0200
A Magyar Pax Romana is a Magyar Filozsfiai Tarsasag Vallasfilozsfiai
Szekcisja
tisztelettel meghmvja
Prof. Dr. Veto Miklss
(Poitiers-i Egyetem)
eloadasara, amelynek cmme
Hit is isz kapcsolata a filozsfiaban
(A Hit is isz papai dokumentumanak irtelmezise filozsfiai szemszvgbol)
Idopont: 2001. oktsber 25. 17 sra.
Helyszmn: Kossuth Klub (Budapest, V. Mzzeum utca 7.)
Veto Miklss az egyik legismertebb franciaorszagi filozsfiatvrtinisz, aki
kvzismert a nimet idealizmusrsl szsls milyenszants munkairsl. Veto Miklss
riszt vett a Hit is isz (Fides et ratio) elokiszmtisiben is tovabbi
munkalataiban. Elemzisiben filozsfiai szempontbsl vizsgalja e fontos
dokumentumot.
Toth Imre eloadas sorozata ket hettel kesobbre tolodott!!!
HIRDETES
Toth Imre
(Az Isten es geometria c. konyv szerzoje)
Matematika-torteneti eloadasok
Muszaki Egyetem
St.(Stoczek) ep. IV.27
November 1-tol egy honapon at
minden csutortok este 6-8-ig
_______________________
Feher Marta
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:44:08 +0100
From: Prof S.R.L. Clark <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: David Lewis' death (fwd)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:24:01 +1000
From: Neil Thomason <n.thomason(a)hps.unimelb.edu.au>
To: aphil-l(a)coombs.anu.edu.au
Dear Philosophers,
I am terribly sorry to have to tell you that David Lewis died Sunday
evening Princeton time. It seems it was very sudden. I have no details on
the immediate cause.
Steffi has a lot of support in Princeton and sounds OK. But she admits
that it hasn't sunk in yet. I think she will welcome calls from her
friends spread out over the next few days. You can get the phone number
from me at 03 9479 3605 or 03 9817 5589.
Their address is: 280 Prospect Avenue, Princeton New Jersey 08540.
Yours,
Tim Oakley
Philosophy
La Trobe
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INVITATION
to a Public Lecture by
Richard W Byrne University of St Andrews, Scotland
To be held at Collegium Budapest on 18 October 2001 at 6 p.m.
Address: 1014 Budapest, Szentharomsag u. 2.
Seeing through the surface of behaviour:
Does ape imitation imply human-like perception?
Which species are claimed to imitate depends which definition of
imitation one takes, but there is good evidence that great apes can
acquire novel, complex behaviour (partly) by imitation of skilled
conspecifics. Compared with the manual skills of other non-human
primates, the food-processing techniques of great apes (including
chimpanzee tool use and gorilla plant gathering) are elaborate,
complex and highly organized; yet this knowledge is traditional and
dependent on imitation, not innate. Typically only the broad-brush,
"program level" structure of the task is copied, whereas details of
execution are often performed idiosyncratically. It is often asserted
that, in order to imitate, an individual must understand the purpose
of the behaviour and how one goes about accomplishing that
purpose. Instead, I argue that sufficient information about the
structure of behaviour can be extracted from watching repeated,
effective actions to enable imitation without intentionality.
Moreover, rather than imitation requiring prior understanding of
intentions, I suggest that "perceiving" the underlying structure of
action beneath the surface form of behaviour may be crucial to
detection of causality and the intentions of others, in humans as well
as other great apes.
Bio-Bibliografia:
Richard Byrne is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the
University of St Andrews, Scotland. In addition to The Thinking Ape
(OUP, 1995), which was awarded the British Psychology Society's
Book Award 1997, he is co-editor of Machiavellian Intelligence:
Social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes and
humans (OUP, 1988) and Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions
and evaluations (CUP, 1997). After a degree in Natural Sciences at
the University of Cambridge, his PhD research was on human
planning and thought. Since coming to St Andrews, he has carried
out field research on baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa,
on topics including behavioural ecology, vocal communication and
deception, manual laterality and feeding techniques. Current projects
concern the development of programs of complex manual action in
great apes, and the cognition of the domestic pig. He is a founder-
member of the Scottish Primate Research Group and was recently
Vice President of the International Primatological Society.
Selected recent papers
Byrne, R W (1997) Machiavellian intelligence. Evolutionary
Anthropology, 5, 135-143.
Byrne, R W and Russon, A (1998) Learning by imitation: a hierarchical
approach. (Target Article) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 667-
721.
Byrne, R W (1999) Imitation without intentionality: using string-
parsing to copy the organization of behaviour. Animal Cognition, 2,
63-72.
Byrne, R W (2000) The evolution of primate cognition. Cognitive
Science, 24 (4) 543-570.
Byrne, R W (2001) Social and technical forms of primate intelligence.
In F B M de Waal (Ed) Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can
Tell us about Human Social Evolution, pp.145-172. Harvard
University Press.
Byrne, R W, Corp, N, and Byrne, J M (2001) Manual dexterity in the
gorilla: bimanual and digit role differentiation in a natural task.
Animal Cognition, 4 (2),
Byrne, R W, Corp, N, and Byrne, J M (2001) Estimating the complexity
of animal behaviour: How mountain gorillas eat thistles. Behaviour,
138, 525-557.
Stokes, E J and Byrne, R W (2001) Cognitive capacities for behavioural
flexibility in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes):The effect of snare
injury on complex manual food processing. Animal Cognition, 4,
11-28
Byrne, R W (2002) Imitation of novel complex actions: What does the
evidence from animals mean? Advances in the Study of Behavior,
31, 77-105.
Corp, N & Byrne, R W (in press) The ontogeny of manual skill in wild
chimpanzees: Evidence from feeding on the fruit of Saba florida.
Behaviour.
Held, S, Mendl, M, Devereux, C, and Byrne, R W (in press) Behaviour
of domestic pigs in a visual perspective taking task. Behaviour.
Held, S, Mendl, M, Devereux, C, and Byrne, R W (in press) Foraging
pigs alter their behaviour in response to exploitation. Animal
Behaviour.
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
15 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: Hungarian)
F e r e n c H u o r a n s z k i
Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
Tudomány és metafizika (Science and metaphysics)
Az eloadas egy meglehetosen altalanos, am mind a filozofia, mind a
tudomanyok szamara erdekes kerdest targyal: a tudomany es a metafizika
viszonyat. A problema a kovetkezokepp fogalmazhato meg. Descartes a
metafizikat a tudomanyok alapjanak tekintette. Ez azt jelentette, hogy a
tudomanyos tevekenyseg vegtermeket csak akkor tekinthetjuk tudasnak, ha
az osszhangban all, sot talan le is vezetheto, bizonyos metafizikai
elvekbol. E megkozelites alternativaja a szkepticizmus volt. Ha
lehetetlen a metafizikai megalapozas, tudomanyos ismeret (tudas) sem
lehetseges. David Hume filozofiai szkepticizmusa reszben igy
ertelmezheto. A kovetkezo szazadban Kant nyoman a neokantianusok egy
*harmadik utat" fogalmaztak meg. Eszerint a tudomanyos ismeretek
kituntettek, a filozofia feladata pedig ezek episztemikus megalapozasa.
Ami viszont a metafizikai elveket illeti, ezek ismeretelmeletileg
megalapozhatatlanok, ezert *tudomanytalanok", es egyaltalaban nem
tekinthetok ismereteknek. A huszadik szazad elejenek szamos filozofiai
iranyzata, koztuk a logikai empirizmus, elfogadta ezt a neokantianus
megkozelitest. Ismeretelmeleti alapul a verifikacionizmus, illetve a
kulonbozo verifikacios elvek szolgaltak. Kiderult azonban, hogy ezek
segitsegevel a tudomanyos igazsagok sem alapozhatok meg. Nem
ertelmezhetok sem a korlatlan altalanositasokat megfogalmazo torvenyek,
sem pedig az ugynevezett *elmeleti terminusok" hasznalatanak
jogosultsaga. A kovetkezo alternativaval szembesulunk tehat: vagy
elfogadjuk a tudomanyos ismeretekkel kapcsolatos szkepticizmust, vagy
pedig elismerjuk, hogy a tudomanyos igazsag nem zarja ki a metafizikai
elvek ertelmesseget. Bar azt ma mar senki sem allitana, hogy a
metafizika a tudomanyok megalapozoja, azt sokan elismerik, hogy a
tudomanyos elmeletek es az (implicit vagy explicit) metafizikai elvek
kozott letezik kapcsolat, illetve hogy nincs jo indok arra, hogy a
metafizikai kerdeseket ertelmetlennek tekintsuk. Az eloadas vegen ezt
roviden nehany peldaval szeretnem szemleltetni: az univerzalek, az oksag
es a modalitas peldajat emlitenem.
______________
Az eloadas temajarol bovebben olvashatunk Huoranszki Ferenc most
megjeleno konyveben: Modern metafizika, Osiris, Budapest 2001.
The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
HIRDETES
Toth Imre
(Az Isten es geometria c. konyv szerzoje)
Matematika-torteneti eloadasok
Muszaki Egyetem
St.(Stoczek) ep. IV.27
Oktober 18-tol egy honapon at minden csutortok este
6-8-ig
_______________________
Feher Marta
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
