koglist April 2003

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8 participants
21 discussions

by Laszlo E. Szabo

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m ____________________________________ 5 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 CANCELLATION! M r s. T i b o r M a d a r á s z & G y ö r g y F a r k a s' seminar talk originally scheduled for 5 May is postponed through conflicting with the Putnam Conference! -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

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Putnam Conference, Pecs

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Pécsi Tudományegyetem Filozófia Tanszékek Magyar Tudományos Akadémia University Pécs Philosophy Department Hungarian Academy of Sciences H i l a r y P u t n a m f i l o z ó f i á j a The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam Nemzetközi Filozófiai Konferencia Hilary Putnam részvételével International Conference in Philosophy with the participation of Hilary Putnam MTA Pécsi Akadémiai Bizottság Székháza House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs Pécs, Jurisics M. u. 44. 2003 május 5.-6. May 5-6, 2003 Organization: János Boros, University Pécs boros(a)btk.pte.hu Monday, May 5, 2003 9.00-9.10 Opening 9.10-10.00 Opening Lecture Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore), Putnam, Pragmatism and Truth 10.00-10.10 Break 10.10-12.20 Morning Session Chair Michael Williams (Baltimore) 10.10-10.25 Zsolt Garai (Pécs-Paris), Varieties of therapeutical realism: McDowell and Putnam 10.25-10.40 Andrea Clausen (Berlin), How to account for objectivity. Brandom?s inferentialism vs. Putnam?s direct realism 10.40-10.55 Krisztián Pete (Pécs), Relativism cum Realism: is it a possible theory? 10.55-11.15 Discussion 11.15-11.30 Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London), Stopping short of the fact 11.30-11.45 Tadeusz Szubka (Lublin), Putnam on the viability of an epistemic conception of truth 11.45-12.00 Matjaz Potrc (Ljubljana), Internal Realism 12.00-12.20 Discussion 12.20-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London) 15.00-15.15 Tim Crane (London), Is the Mind a Thing? 15.15-15.30 Gyula Mezősi (Pécs), Is the strong supervenience thesis defensible? 15.30-15.45 György Kampis (Budapest), How to Be a Brain in a Vat and Why we are not 15.45-16.00 Ferenc Ruzsa (Budapest), Testing the Vat ? Talking about the Ding an sich 16.00-16.20 Discussion 16.20-16.40 Break 16.40-16.55 Ferenc Huoranszky (Budapest), Causation, Explanation and Internal Realism 16.55-17.10 István Danka (Pécs-Budapest), Rethinking non-mathematical necessity 17.10-17.25 András Máté (Budapest), First or second order logic? Putnam, Quine and the Skolem-Argument 17.25-17.40 Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Putnam on properties 17.40-18.00 Discussion 18.00-18.30 Break 18.30-19.30 Evening Lecture Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Objectivity without Objects 20.00 Dinner for the Participants at Pavlik Cellar (Pavlik Pince) Pécs, Varjú dűlő 1. Phone 226 252 Tuesday, May 6, 2003 9.00-10.00 Morning Lecture Ágnes Heller (New School, New York), Hilary Putnam on fact/value dichotomy 10.00-10.20 Break 10.20-12.30 Morning Session Chair: Tim Crane (London) 10.20-10.35 Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore), Putnam?s Wittgenstein 10.35-10.50 János Weiss (Pécs-Frankfurt), Putnam and Habermas 10.50-11.05 Jon Roberts (New York), Putnam, Truth and History: Reading the Past Pragmatically 11.05-11.25 Discussion 11.25-11.40 László Tarnay and Tamás Pólya (Pécs), On Meaning Holism. Is Miscommunication All We Have? 11.40-11.55 Richard Schantz (Berlin), Putnam on perception 11.55-12.10 János Tőzsér (Budapest), Is there a gap between the Mind and the World in perception? 12.10-12.30 Discussion 12.30-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Meredith Williams (Baltimore) 15.00-15.15 János Kelemen (Budapest), Linguistic Division of Labour: Putnam and Rossi-Landi 15.15-15.30 László Komlósi (Pécs), Negotiated and Agreeable Inferences 15.30-15.45 Tibor Szolcsányi (Pécs), Experience, Descriptions and the Spectral Model of Information 15.45-16.05 Discussion 16.05-16.20 Zsofia Zvolenszky (New York), The semantics of natural kind terms 16.20-16.35 Ferenc András (Pécs), The question, the possibility of the answer and the answer 16.35-16.50 János Boros (Pécs), Internal realism is realism: Dewey and Davidson vs. Putnam 16.50-17.05 Csaba Pléh (Budapest) 17.05-17.20. Discussion 17.20-17.30 Conclusion 18.00 Take off for dinner in Villány, Blum Cellar (Blum Pince) Villánykövesd, Pince sor 24. Phone (72) 493 088 Bus starts 18.00 from conference location, stops at 18.05 at Hotel Hunyor. The conference is part in the series of the Pécs Philosophy Conferences. Until today there were conferences with and about the following philosophers: John McDowell, Pittsburgh, 1998 Daniel Dennett, Boston, 1999 Michael Williams, Baltimore, 1999 Robert Brandom, Pittsburgh, 2000 Jacques Derrida, Paris, 2000 Richard Rorty, Stanford, 2001 Ágnes Heller, New York and Budapest, 2002 A konferencia a Pécsi Filozófia Konferenciák sorozat része Eddig az említett filozófusokról és filozófusokkal rendeztünk Pécsett konferenciát. * Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University. His works are among others Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975 Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978 Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981 The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987 Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press, 1990 Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992 The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999 -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

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H i l a r y P u t n a m , Pecs

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Hungarian Academy of Sciences Tisztelettel meghívja Önt H i l a r y P u t n a m (Harvard) Objectivity without Objects angol nyelvű előadására 2003 május 5 hétfő, 18.30h Pécs, MTA Székház (PAB, Jurisics u.44.) További információ: PTE BTK Filozófia Tanszékek Tel. (72) 501 515 boros(a)btk.pte.hu Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University. His works are among others Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975 Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978 Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981 The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987 Realism with a Human Face, Harvad University Press, 1990 Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992 The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999 -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

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Philosophy lecture at CEU

by Krisztina Biber

The Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Friday, 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room "Ethics Without Metaphysics" Chair: Howard Robinson, CEU Philosophy Department Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Mrs. Madarasz & Farkas

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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News from Science & Consciousness Review - Dreaming platypus

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear all, Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ NEWS Does the duck-billed platypus dream? - by Bernard J. Baars You can see a dog dreaming: it twitches and whines, and its eyes move in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In fact, dreaming in dogs and cats is quite similar to human dreaming. But a recent study of dream patterns in the duck-billed platypus, the odd-looking Australian marsupial, reveals an interesting surprise. Full text at: http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030402.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - RADIO: Synapses and the Self - REVIEW: The cognitive revolution - BOOK REVIEW: Memory and Dreams - Unconscious actions in action-blindsight - NEW ISSUE: Brain and Mind See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Editorial: Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030304.html Editorial: An Attention-Based Control Model of Consciousness (CODAM) http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020601.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, B. Láng

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 28 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 B e n e d e k L á n g <mailto:mphlab01@phd.ceu.hu> Medieval Studies Department Central European University, Budapest Necromantia mint a hetedik szabad mu"vészet avagy a tanult mágia a középkori tudomány határain innen és túl (Necromantia as the seventh liberal art - learned magic fringing upon the medieval science ) Az arab szövegek latinra történo" átültetését célzó program, amely az Ibériai félsziget és Szicília 12. századi fordítóiskoláiban bontakozott ki, alapveto" változást és nem kevés zavart hozott az európai tudomány életébe. Egyfelo"l a keresztény nyugat szembesült az arab tudomány gazdagságával és felso"bbrendu" voltával, valamint igyekezett annak eredményeit asszimilálni, másfelo"l pedig az új tudással nem kevés olyan anyag is érkezett, amely elgondolkodásra késztette a nyugat filozófusait. A fordítók ugyanis a matematikai, csillagászati, optikai és orvosi traktátusokkal együtt (so"t nem ritkán ezeket félretéve) különösen szívesen fordították a divináció, a természetes mágia és a talizmán mágia alapszövegeit. Az új tudomány érkezése olyan helyzetet teremtett, amelyre talán nem túlzás a ?paradigmaváltás? kifejezést alkalmazni. Nem csupán azért, mert a természetro"l való tudás mennyisége drasztikusan megno"tt a jellege pedig megváltozott, hanem azért is, mert az új szövegek új kihívással szembesítették a nyugat tudósközösségeit: meg kellett határozni, hogy a tudásanyag mely része mino"sül elfogadhatónak és tudományosnak, és mit kell sürgo"sen kizárni a legitim tudományból, egyszóval állást kellett foglalni a demarkáció kérdésében. A helyzet átmeneti voltára jellemzo", hogy számunkra meglepo" tudástípusok is aspirálhattak a tudomány státuszra: a 12. század néhány oktatási kézikönyve a necromantia tudományát ? bármit is értettek e terminus alatt ? a hetedik szabad mu"vészetként, azaz az oktatás legalapveto"bb elemeként említette. Elo"adásomban 13. századi latin szerzo"k tudományklasszifikációit segítségül híva azt a mechanizmust igyekszem rekonstruálni, amelynek folyamán eldo"lt, hogy mely arab forrásból fordított mágiatípusok nyernek bebocsátást a hivatalos tudomány védo"bástyái közé, és melyek mino"sülnek veszélyes ? de nem megsemmisítendo", csupán félretéve mego"rzendo" ?tudásanyagnak. Ha vizsgálatunkat kiterjesztjük az egész középkorra, megfigyelhetjük, hogy amíg a ?mágia? terminus egyértelmu" elutasítás tárgya volt a kora középkorban, addig a korszak végére korlátozott mértékben lehetségessé vált egyes mágia formák mellett érvelni. A tanult mágia differenciálódásával és az egyes mágiatípusok elkülönülésével párhuzamosan, bizonyos mágiához kötheto" motívumok és teóriák ?pozitivizációjáról?, tudományossá szelídüléséro"l számolhatunk be. Úgy tu"nik, hogy nem csak a tudomány, de a mágia fogalma is történetileg változó, állandó mozgásban lévo" és dinamikus konstrukció, valamint, hogy végso" soron egy tágabb értelemben vett tudósközösség döntésén múlik, hogy mi számít egyetemi szinten oktatható tudásnak, és mi mino"sül veszélyes tévelygésnek. Ezek a következtetések persze nem okoznak meglepetést azoknak, akik figyelemmel követték az elmúlt húsz-harminc év tudományfilozófiai és tudásszociológiai fejleményeit. Azonban amíg e filozófiai tételek illusztrálására és alátámasztására rendszerint 17. századi vagy késo"bbi, modern példák szolgáltatnak történeti anyagot, addig én azt próbálom felderíteni, hogy hogyan lehet hasonló szempontok mentén újraolvasni a 13. század egyes vitáit, azaz hogyan lehet egy olyan korszakot vizsgálni, amely sokkal kevesebb tudománytörténeti és szociológiai információt hagyott ránk, és amelyhez összehasonlíthatatlanul nehézkesebb a hozzáférésünk. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-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 colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- 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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Workshop program: Cognitive modeling of agents and multi-agent interaction

by Ron Sun

Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions August 9, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico (at IJCAI'2003) Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate a wide range of cognitive functionalities (such as a variety of memory/representation, various types of learning, and sensory motor capabilities) have been developed in both AI and cognitive science. In AI, they appear under the rubric of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. In cognitive science, they are often known as cognitive architectures. These strands of research provide useful paradigms for addressing some fundamental questions in AI and Cognitive Science. Artificial intelligence started out with the goal of designing functioning intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous difficulty of the task, the focus has largely been on modeling specific aspects of intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. Nevertheless, some researchers have focused on putting the pieces together with the goal of designing autonomous agents. More important, there is a growing interest in multi-agent interactions that addresses issues of coordination and cooperation among cognitive agents. On the other side, traditionally, the main focus of research in cognitive science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception, memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modeling of cognitive architectures provide new avenues for precisely specifying complex cognitive processes in tangible ways, thereby addressing foundational questions in cognitive science. Such developments need to be extended to multi-agent interactions and there are promising developments in this regard (see e.g. recent papers in this area in the journal Cognitive Systems Research). Against this background, this workshop seeks to bring together cognitive scientists and AI researchers, with a wide range of background and expertise, to discuss research problems in understanding cognition at the individual level as well as at the collective level. Tentative Program August 9, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico 9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks Ron Sun Session 1: Cognitive Models of Physical and Social Environments (Chair: Ron Sun) 9:10 - 11:40 (30 minutes each) A Value-Laden Architecture for Intelligent Behavior Pat Langley Daniel Shapiro Meg Aycinema Michael Siliski Representational Content and Reciprocal Interplay Tibor Bosse Catholijn M. Jonker Jan Treur Cognitive Anatomy and Functions of Expectations Cristiano Castelfranchi Emiliano Lorini Obligations and Permissions as Mental Entities G. Boella L. van der Torre Finding Interaction Partners using Cognition-Based Decision Strategies Partha Sarathi Dutta Luc Moreau Nicholas R. Jennings Session 2: ACT-R Based Cognitive Modeling (Chair: P. Langley) 1:30 - 3:00 (30 minutes each) Cognitive Architectures, Game Playing, and Interactive Agents Robert L. West, Christian Lebiere, Teamwork, Communication, and Planning in ACT-R Brad Best Christian Lebiere Learning to Play Hide and Seek Greg Trafton Alan Schultz Dennis Perzanowski Bill Adams Magda Bugajska Nick Cassimatis Derek Brock Session 3: Short Presentations (Chair: Robert West) 3:00 - 4:45 (15 minutes each) Use of a 3D Gaming Environment for a Cognitive Agent John F. Santore Stuart C. Shapiro Design Agents in 3D Virtual Worlds Mary Lou Maher Greg Smith John Gero Function-Behaviour-Structure: A Model for Social Situated Agents John S. Gero Udo Kannengiesser Optimize or Adapt? Explore or Exploit? Let the Agent (Meta-)Decide Norberto Eiji Nawa BDI Architecture in the Framework of Situation Calculus Robert Demolombe Pilar Pozos Parra Reasoning by Assumption Tibor Bosse Catholijn M. Jonker Jan Treur An Integrative Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence Ben Goertzel Cassio Pennachin Andre Senna Thiago Maia Guilherme Lamacie Panel Discussion: Cognitive Modeling and Multi-Agent Systems---the Synergy 5:00 - 6:00 Chair: Ron Sun Panelists: Cristiano Castelfranchi Christian Lebiere Jan Treur Jonathan Gratch Contact IJCAI regarding registration and travel matters. See http://www.ijcai-03.org for details. See the workshop Web page at: http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/wsp03.html =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun, Ph.D James C. Dowell Professor CECS Department, 201 EBW phone: (573) 884-7662 University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882-8318 Columbia, MO 65211-2060 email: rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun ===================================================================

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Categorization: Summer Institute (Montreal)

by Stevan Harnad

Dear Dr. Qwerty, In the 12 days from June 30th to July 11 2003, Montreal will be the Categorization Capital of the Cognitive World. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html The latest developments in all aspects of categorization will be described and debated across the cognitive sciences spectrum: cognitive anthropology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The University of Quebec/Montreal will host this Cognitive Sciences Summer Institute. I hope you and your colleagues and students will attend and participate in this remarkable convergence. I've attached a sample of only a few of the over 50 speakers. For the full programme: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html Best wishes, Stevan Harnad. Canada Research Chair University of Quebec/Montreal Partial List: Categorization in cognitive neuroscience, Stephen Grossberg, Boston University Brain basis of category learning, John Gabrieli, Stanford University Categorization in linguistics, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen Color categories across languages, Paul Kay, University of California at Berkeley Shape recognition, Irv Biederman, University of Southern California Object perception, Phil G. Schyns, University of Glasgow Category representation, Rob Nosofsky, Indiana University A state of the art on syntactic categories, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University On categorisation and acquisition, Eve Clark, Stanford University Inferential theory of learning Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University Simulation and embodiment in situated conceptualization, Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University Category learning, Rob Goldstone, Indiana University Self-organizing vocabularies, Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome Analogical reasoning, Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University Categorisation and conceptual change, Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo A biological theory of empirical concepts, Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut On category change, Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge

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invitation

by Krisztina Biber

CEU Philosophy Department and ELTE cordially invite you to a public lecture by Harry Frankfurt Monday, 28 April, 5.30 PM- Popper room (Nador str. 9./room 102) "Some Mysteries of Love" Love, in which the will is constrained to a disinterested concern for the good of the beloved, is not necessarily a response to reasons or to value. It is a creator of reasons and of value: things become valuable to us because we love them, and our love means that we have reason to perform the actions that sustaining and promoting their good requires. The ultimate ground of practical normativity and practical reason lies, then, in the contingent necessities of love. These volitional necessities, far from impairing our freedom, are in fact themselves liberating. Harry Frankfurt is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, a past president of the American Philosophical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He specializes in ethics and the history of philosophy, with particular emphasis on the problem of free will. His publications include the articles "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,", "Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility" and the books Demons, Dreamers and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes' Meditations; The Importance of What We Care About and Necessity, Volition and Love. *************************************************************************************************************************** CEU Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by Hilary Putnam 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room "Ethics Without Metaphysics" Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.

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