koglist March 2002

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7 participants
17 discussions

Fw: Registration form added to May conf. progr.

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh, Professor of Psychology Technical U. of Budapest Center for Cognitive Science Presently at Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Szentharomsag u 2 H-1014 cspleh@ colbud.hu, T: 3612248323, Fax: 3612248310 Mobile: (06)303500431 ----- Original Message ----- From: Nyiri Kristof <nyiri(a)phil-inst.hu> To: <nyiri(a)phil-inst.hu> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:47 AM Subject: Registration form added to May conf. progr. Dunabogdany, Wednesday, 27 March 2002, 09:39 Dear Colleague: Please forgive me for burdening you with this circular. It is to inform you that we have added a "Registration form" link to the program http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/2002_konf I would be most grateful if you could distribute the present message. Also, you are more than welcome to fill out the registration form yourself, too. :) Kind regards, Kristof Nyiri =================================== Kristof [J.C.] Nyiri Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Professor of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Director, Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Address (private): H-2023 Dunabogdany, POB 8 Tel. and fax (Institute): +36 1 3120 243 Tel. and fax (home): +36 26 390 468 Tel. mobile: +36 30 350 0421 E-mail: nyiri(a)phil-inst.hu Personal homepage: http://www.uniworld.hu/nyiri Institute for Philosophical Research website: http://www.phil-inst.hu Institute for Philosophical Research Open University website: http://openuniversity.phil-inst.hu UNIWORLD Virtual University website: http://www.uniworld.hu "Communications in the 21st Century" project website: http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu

24 years, 1 month

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, April

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ April program 8 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Panel discussion: A Godel-tetel filozofiai kovetkezmenyei Philosophical upshot of Godel's theorem Panelists: Ferenc Csaba (Logic, Eotvos) Janos Geier (Psychology, Eotvos) Andras Mate (Logic, Eotvos) Istvan Nemeti (Renyi Institute of Mathematics) Moderator: Laszlo E. Szabo (Theoretical Physics & HPS, Eotvos) Iden unnepeljuk Bolyai Janos szuletesenek ketszazadik evfordulojat! Bolyai, Gauss es Lobacsevszkij az elso nem-euklideszi geometriak megalkotasaval inditottak el azt a folyamatot, amit a matematika ontudatra ebredesenek nevezhetnenk. A matematika eme onreflexiojaval a filozofia epitmenyenek masik tartopillere, a racionalizmus is meginogni latszik. (Az elso, az empirizmus ugyanis mar Hume ota aladucolasra szorul.) A 19. szazad vegere vilagos volt, hogy ujra kell gondolnunk a matematika alapveto mibenletet. Ugy tunik, a matematika -- ahogyan Russell megfogalmazta -- "olyan tudomany, amelyben nem tudjuk mirol beszelunk, vagy hogy igaz-e, amit mondunk". A matematikus szamara sem az axiomaknak, sem a beloluk levezetett allitasoknak nincs jelentese, es nincs igazsaga. A matematikus dolga a levezetes maga. Sokaig ugy tunt, hogy a Hilbert-fele formalista/axiomatikus program a dolgokat a helyere teszi, mignem 1931-ben egy fiatal Becsi matematikus, Kurt Godel kozzetette az "Uber formal unentscheidbare Satze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme" cimu dolgozatat. Altalanos velekedes szerint, Godel eredmenyei lehetetlenne tettek a formalista program folytatasat. Tenyleg igy van-e? Hol tartunk most? Hogyan is kell pontosan ertekelnunk Godel teteleit? Ezekket a kerdeseket fogjuk megvitatni. 15 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Evolutionary Moral Realism John Collier Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria Moral realism is the view that moral kinds, such as values, obligations, rights, duties and the like, are objective kinds that ground moral "oughts". Moral naturalism is the view that moral kinds can best be explained in naturalistic terms. The evolutionary version of moral naturalism holds that evolutionary explanations are central to satisfactory naturalistic explanations of morality. Evolutionary moral realism holds that there are moral natural kinds that can ground moral "oughts", and that these kinds are best explained in evolutionary terms. In previous work we have argued that evolutionary naturalism can be objective: John Collier and Michael Stingl, "Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality", Biology and Philosophy 8 (1993): 47-60, reprinted in Paul Thompson, ed., Issues in Evolutionary Ethics, SUNY Press, Albany, 1995, pp. 409-429. In this talk I will discuss what is at stake, and how our view differs from other moral naturalisms that try to reduce or eliminate moral kinds. In particular, I will discuss why giving an evolutionary explanation of morality does not need to commit the "is/ought" fallacy. 22 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Vallas es tudomany: a konfliktuson innen es tul Religion and Science: this side of the conflict and beyond Mihaly Toth Philosophy, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest Vallas es tudomany, kulonosen pedig a modern termeszettudomany viszonyara gondolva leggyakrabban valamilyen szembenallas kepe sejlik fel elottunk. Ezt az elkepzelest reszben indokoljak az ujkori tudomanytortenet egyes fejlemenyei. A ket terulet kapcsolata azonban sokkal arnyaltabb annal, semhogy egy egyszeru konfliktus- modellel jellemezheto lenne. Az elmult evtizedekben szamos kiserlet tortent mind teologusok, mind termeszettudosok, mind a kozvetitesre vallalkozo filozofusok reszerol, hogy a kerdeses viszony minel tobb aspektusat feltarjak, valamint hogy a kapcsolat jelen es jovobeni lehetosegeit felvazoljak. Eloadasomban a legfontosabb idevonatkozo eszmefuttatasokat kivanom roviden bemutatni - kiterve a magyar vonatkozasokra -, altaluk illusztralva a kerdeskor aktualitasat es jelentoseget. Vitainditokent igyekszem tovabba ramutatni az eddigi kiserletek nehany problematikus pontjara is. 29 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Concepts: where the critics of the classical view went wrong Lilia Gurova Department of Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia In the 1970s, a set of experimental findings convinced cognitive science community that the view whose main claim is that concepts are represented by lists of defining features (the so-called classical view) is to be recognized as inadequate and replaced by a more sound theory. Some of the critics of the classical view have even claimed that this view has failed not only as a psychological theory but also as a methodological prescription in natural sciences (especially in biology). Taken seriously, their claim implies that the search for well-defined concepts in science is generally misleading. Most scientists, however, would hardly agree with such a verdict. Is the criticism against the classical view so unproblematic as it is seen to be today? The aim of this presentation is to denounce some broadly accepted myths concerning the so-called classical view and its alleged main flaws. ___________________ The organizer of the seminar: Lszl E. Szab -- 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

24 years, 1 month

ORTVAY KOLLOKVIUM, E. S z a b o L.

by Laszlo E Szabo

ELTE Fizika Tanszekcsoport ORTVAY KOLLOKVIUM 2001. marcius 21., csut. 15:00 Az ELTE Pazmany P. s. 1/A 1. emelet 1.69 E. S z a b o L a s z l o MTA-ELTE Elmeleti Fizikai Tanszeki Kutatocsoport ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek A relativitaselmelet tokeletesen azonos a relativitaselmelet elotti fizikaval Poincare konvencionalista allaspontja szerint nem lehet empirikusan eldonteni, hogy melyik a terido helyes geometriaja, mert a terido geometriaja es a fizikai elmeletek csak egyutt vethetok ossze a kiserleti eredmenyekkel. Vizsgalodasainkat a specialis relativitaselmeletre korlatozva, meg fogjuk mutatni, hogy a relativitaselmelet es a klasszikus (nem-relativisztikus) fizika nem passzol bele ebbe a kepbe. De nem azert nem, amiert a legtobben hiszik, hogy tudniillik a kiserleti tenyek alapjan kulonbseget tudnank tenni a relativisztikus es a klasszikus fizika kozott! Eppen ellenkezoleg, azt fogjuk megmutatni, hogy a relativitaselmelet es a nem-relativisztikus fizika egymassal teljesen azonos. Meghozza abban a -- fizikus szamara egyedul elfogadhato ertelemben, hogy ugyanazon fizikai mennyisegek ertekerol ugyanazt allitjak (beleertve a ter- es idokoordinatakat is). A relativitaselmelet es a klasszikus fizika kozott csupan lingvisztikai kulonbseg van. Minden erdeklodot szivesen latunk! Az eloadás elott negyed oraval a 1.69 sz. terem bejárata elott teat szolgalunk fel. Az eloadas-sorozatról az interneten az "ortvay-koll.elte.hu" cimen talalhato informacio. -- 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

24 years, 1 month

BBS Call for Commentators: Williams: FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT by Amanda Williams http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) 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. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. _______________________________________________________ FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT Amanda C de C Williams University of London St Thomas' Hospital London, UK KEYWORDS: pain; facial expression; adaptation; evolutionary psychology ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that human expression of pain in the presence or absence of caregivers, and the detection of pain by observers, arise from evolved propensities. The function of pain is to demand attention and prioritise escape, recovery and healing; where others can help achieve these goals, effective communication of pain is required. Evidence is reviewed of a distinct and specific facial expression of pain from infancy to old age, consistent across stimuli, and recognizable as pain by observers. Voluntary control over amplitude is incomplete, and observers better detect pain which the individual attempts to suppress than to amplify or to simulate it. In many clinical and experimental settings, facial expression of pain is incorporated with verbal and nonverbal-vocal activity, posture and movement in an overall category of pain behaviour. This is assumed by clinicians to be under operant control of social contingencies such as sympathy, caregiving, and practical help; thus strong facial expression is presumed to constitute an attempt to manipulate these contingencies by amplification of the normal expression. Operant formulations support skepticism about the presence or extent of pain, judgements of malingering, and sometimes the withholding of caregiving and help. However, to the extent that pain expression is influenced by environmental contingencies, "amplification" could equally plausibly constitute release of suppression according to evolved contingent propensities which guide behaviour. Pain has been largely neglected in the evolutionary literature and that on pain expression, but an evolutionary account can generate improved assessment of pain and reactions to it. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams ====================================================================== IMPORTANT Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. 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24 years, 1 month

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, G. F o r r a i

by Laszlo E Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, BudapestPazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.huhttp://hps.elte.hu PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM __________________________ 25 March 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Language: Hungarian G a b o r F o r r a i Department of Philosophy University of Miskolc Ideak es korpuszkulak: Locke tudomanyfilozofiaja (Ideas and Copuscules: Locke's philosophy of science) A klasszikus arisztoteleszi felfogasban a tudomany szuksegszeru igazsagokrol tokeletesen bizonyos ismereteket nyujt. A modern, durvan hume-ianus felfogasban, a tudomany kontingens igazsagok fallibilis ismereteben all. Az eloadas azt kivanja bemutatni, hogy Locke milyen szerepet jatszott a modern nezet kialakulasaban. Diohejban a kovetkezot. Ismeretelmeleti fomuve azzal a rendkivul pesszimista konkluzioval zarul, hogy a termeszetrol nem lehetseges tudomany, s e pesszimista konkluziotol a tudomanyos ismeret fogalmanak modern atertelmezese reven lehetett legkonnyebben megszabadulni. Az eloadas kozpontjaban az a kerdes all, hogy mikent jut Locke erre a pesszimista konkluziora. Ennek kifejtesehez azonban nemcsak Locke-rol kell majd beszelnem, hanem a skolasztikus es a descartes-i tudomanyfelfogasrol, valamint a korpuszkularis-mechanista termeszetkeprol is. ____________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 5-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the seminar: Laszlo E. Szabo -- 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

24 years, 1 month

BBS Call for Commentators: Williams: FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT

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Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT by Amanda Williams http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) 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. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. _______________________________________________________ FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT Amanda C de C Williams University of London St Thomas' Hospital London, UK KEYWORDS: pain; facial expression; adaptation; evolutionary psychology ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that human expression of pain in the presence or absence of caregivers, and the detection of pain by observers, arise from evolved propensities. The function of pain is to demand attention and prioritise escape, recovery and healing; where others can help achieve these goals, effective communication of pain is required. Evidence is reviewed of a distinct and specific facial expression of pain from infancy to old age, consistent across stimuli, and recognizable as pain by observers. Voluntary control over amplitude is incomplete, and observers better detect pain which the individual attempts to suppress than to amplify or to simulate it. In many clinical and experimental settings, facial expression of pain is incorporated with verbal and nonverbal-vocal activity, posture and movement in an overall category of pain behaviour. This is assumed by clinicians to be under operant control of social contingencies such as sympathy, caregiving, and practical help; thus strong facial expression is presumed to constitute an attempt to manipulate these contingencies by amplification of the normal expression. Operant formulations support skepticism about the presence or extent of pain, judgements of malingering, and sometimes the withholding of caregiving and help. However, to the extent that pain expression is influenced by environmental contingencies, "amplification" could equally plausibly constitute release of suppression according to evolved contingent propensities which guide behaviour. Pain has been largely neglected in the evolutionary literature and that on pain expression, but an evolutionary account can generate improved assessment of pain and reactions to it. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams ====================================================================== IMPORTANT Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. 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24 years, 1 month

szekfoglalok es konyvbemutatok

by Csaba PLEH

Kedves Kognitiv Nepek ! Nehany erdemleges esemeny, melyre mindekit szeretettel latnak. 1. Marcius 19-en, kedden 13 orakor: Mody Istvan: Ki a legeny a gatlason 2. ugyanaznap 14 orakor Buzsaki Gyorgy: Infomacio tarolasa az idegrendszerben cimmel szekfoglalot tart az MTA szekhaza Nagytermeben (Budapest, Roosevelt ter, II. emelet) 3. Marcius 25-en hetfon mas konyvekkel egyutt a Typotex Kiado a Helikon Konyveshazban (Bajcsi-Zsilinszky u. 37), bemutatja Gopnik, Meltzfoff es Kuhl: BOLCSEK A BOLCSOBEN c. konyvet Csaba Pleh, professor of psychology, Center for Cognitive Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest Sztoczek u. 2 H-1111 email: pleh(a)itm.bme.hu Mobile:(36)(30)3500431 also at the Department of Psychology, University of Szeged This year at Collegium Budapest, Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 H-2092 Hungary (36)(23)453933 Fax:932 Editor: Hungarian Review of Psychology

24 years, 1 month

BBS Call for Commentators: Perruchet: THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS

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Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS by Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) 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. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. ____________________________________________________________ THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter Universit de Bourgogne LEAD/CNRS Dijon, France KEYWORDS: Associative learning; automatism, consciousness; development; implicit learning; incubation; language; mental representation; perception; phenomenal experience ABSTRACT: We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC). We show that the SOC framework accounts for the discovery of words and objects, and for word-object mapping. We then argue that isomorphic representations may underlie seemingly rule-governed behavior, as is observed in the areas of implicit learning of arbitrary structures, language, problem solving, and automatisms. This analysis provides support for the so-called "mentalistic" framework (e.g. Dulany, 1997), which avoids postulating the existence of unconscious representations and computations. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet ___________________________________________________________ Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. 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24 years, 1 month

BBS Call for Commentators: Perruchet: THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS by Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) 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. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. ____________________________________________________________ THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter Universit de Bourgogne LEAD/CNRS Dijon, France KEYWORDS: Associative learning; automatism, consciousness; development; implicit learning; incubation; language; mental representation; perception; phenomenal experience ABSTRACT: We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC). We show that the SOC framework accounts for the discovery of words and objects, and for word-object mapping. We then argue that isomorphic representations may underlie seemingly rule-governed behavior, as is observed in the areas of implicit learning of arbitrary structures, language, problem solving, and automatisms. This analysis provides support for the so-called "mentalistic" framework (e.g. Dulany, 1997), which avoids postulating the existence of unconscious representations and computations. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet ___________________________________________________________ Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. 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Fwd: Problems in Philosophy of Science eloadassorozat (fwd)

by Gergely Csibra

BOUNCE koglist(a)www.cogpsyphy.hu: Non-member submission from [Laszlo Ropolyi <ropolyi(a)caesar.elte.hu>] --- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:35:14 +0100 (MET) From: Laszlo Ropolyi <ropolyi(a)caesar.elte.hu> To: koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu Subject: Problems in Philosophy of Science eloadassorozat (fwd) Ertesitjuk az erdeklodoket, hogy az ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken angol nyelvu tudomanyfilozfiai kurzust tartunk minden erdeklodo hallgato szamara: Problems in Philosophy of Science Eloadok: Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Lilia Gurova (Sofia) and Mihail-Radu Solcan (Bucharest) 13 March, 18.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper and Feyerabend on Parmenides I. (Popper's Parmenides) 20 March, 18.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper and Feyerabend on Parmenides II. (Feyerabend's Parmenides) 22 March, 14.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper and Feyerabend on Parmenides III. (Where did Popper and Feyerabend go wrong? New interpretation of Parmenides) 24 April, 18.00: Lilia Gurova: Causation and causal explanations 26 April 14.00: Lilia Gurova: The problem of intratheoretical reduction 3 May, 18.00: Lilia Gurova: Scientific concepts and psychological theories of concepts 8 May, 18.00: Mihail-Radu Solcan: Problems in the philosophy of psychology Az eloadasok idopontja: szerda 6 - fel 8 es pentek 2 - fel 4 (kizarolag a fent megjelolt napokon). Az eloadasok helye: ELTE Budapest, Lagymanyos, Eszaki tomb, 686. terem Tovabbi informaciok megtalalhatok a kovetkezo web cimen: http://hps.elte.hu/ Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk! Ropolyi Laszlo ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek 1518 Budapest Pf. 32. tel: 372 2949

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