The Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a public lecture
by
Cheryl Misak (Professor of Philosophy, VP Academic, University of Toronto at Mississauga)
Thursday, 12. June, 5.00 PM - Zrinyi 14/room 412
'Pragmatism and Deflationism'
C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that we should turn our backs on
the correspondence theory of truth because it rests on an unhappy and bloated
metaphysics. We must embrace, rather, a deflated and naturalist view of truth
on which a true belief is a belief which would forever stand up to inquiry.
Contemporary deflationists, however, think of Peirce as a misguided opponent.
They object to his thought that truth is a property; that is, they think that
he hasn't deflated truth enough. I shall argue that the dispute between the
classical deflationist and the Peircean deflationist is not as significant as
it first seems and suggest that the classical deflationist should follow Peirce
in saying something general about what truth is.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Kedves Kognitiv-Népek!
A Szegedi Tudományegyetem Kognitv Munkacsoportja mindenkit vár szeretettel
az őszi kognitiv kurzusokon.
A kurzuskínálatot csatoltam.
udv.
Németh Dezső
SZTE Pszichológia Tk.
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NEMETH Dezso
University of Szeged, Department of Psychology
Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Web: www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd
[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]
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| CONTEXT'03 |
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| Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on |
| Modeling and Using Context |
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| Stanford, California (USA) |
| June 23-25, 2003 |
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| (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) |
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We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation
reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online.
Please, follow this link to formalize your registration:
http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/
You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION
Monday June 23, 2003
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9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake
(Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA)
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I
* Robert Porzel
Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and
Situational Coherence
* Hugo Liu
Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to
Computational Lexicon Design
* Martin Trautwein
Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of
Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts
* Mark Whitsey
Discourse Context and Indexicality
12:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning
* Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy
Varieties of Contexts
* John Bell
A Common Sense Theory of Causation
15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I
* Rolf Nossum
A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction
* Luciano Serafini
Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database
Coordination
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling
* Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus
Explanation as Contextual Categorization
* Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard
Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties
* Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus
Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context
18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus
and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden.
Tuesday June 24, 2003
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9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin
(CSLI, Stanford University, USA)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations
* Claudia Bianchi
How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context
* Roger Young
Demonstratives, Reference and Perception
* Horacio Arlo-Costa
A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives
* Isidora Stojanovic
What to Say on What Is Said
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II
* Richmond Thomason
Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an
Application
* Sasa Buvac
A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic
* Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini
On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms
* Valeria de Paiva
Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30:-18:30 Poster Session
20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees).
Wednesday June 25, 2003
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9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon
(LIP 6, University Paris 6, France)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications
* Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon
A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations
* Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner
Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network
* Lucas Paletta
Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection
* Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo
ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II
* Nobo Komagata
Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and
Information Theory
* Kavita Thomas
Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue
* David Ahn
Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III
* Dominic Widdows
A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning
* Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and
Stefano Zanobini
A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Fausto Giunchiglia (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy)
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France)
Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK)
Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Dikran Karagueuzian (dikran(a)roslin.stanford.edu)
Michele King (mking(a)csli.stanford.edu)
John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu)
Keith Devlin (devlin(a)csli.stanford.edu)
Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti(a)psych.stanford.edu)
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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
7TH ANNUAL MEETING
University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
May 30 - June 2, 2003
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The seventh meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness will be held from May 30th to June 2nd, 2003, at the
University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. This is the final call for
participation.
Invited plenary speakers and symposia will address current empirical and
theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, focusing on the theme of
models and mechanisms of consciousness. The conference will explore the many
connections between models of consciousness and their psychological and
neurobiological mechanisms, from the perspectives of philosophy,
neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science, cognitive ethology,
and artificial intelligence. Plenary symposia will include
- Global Workspace Theory
- Computational models of consciousness
- Binocular rivalry and the NCC
- The role of feedback and re-entrant mechanisms in consciousness
- Animal consciousness
Confirmed plenary speakers include: Igor Aleksander, Bernard Baars, Sarah T
Boysen, Ned Block, Axel Cleeremans, Peter Carruthers, Daniel Dennett, Vince
Di Lollo, Bill Fields, Stan Franklin, Walter J Freeman, Christof Koch,
Victor Lamme, David Leopold, Lionel Naccache, Alva Noe, Alvaro
Pascual-Leone, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Aaron Sloman, Petra Stoerig & Frank
Tong.
For the program, please check the conference website:
http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/
ASSC7 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific
study of consciousness, and as in previous years a significant portion of
the program will be set aside for concurrent sessions of submitted talks.
ASSC7 will provide an excellent opportunity for the presentation of new
empirical findings or novel theoretical perspectives in an atmosphere that
will promote discussion and debate.
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REGISTRATION
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Registration fees:
Non-members USD 225
ASSC members USD 190
Students USD 125
Student ASSC members USD 90
The early membership deadline (April 15, 2003) has now passed. To register,
please follow the instructions available from the conference website as they
become available:
http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/
Address all enquiries about registration to assc7(a)memphis.edu
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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All meetings and poster presentations will be held at the University of
Memphis campus. Accommodations will be available both at local hotels at
discounted rates and at air-conditioned single/double dormitories.
Please check the conference website for further information about the
meeting, including information about paper and poster submissions;
registration and submission forms; information about travel to Memphis and
accommodation; and information about the scientific program of the meeting:
http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/. The site will be continually updated to
reflect the latest information. To enquire about any aspect of the
conference, please write to assc7(a)memphis.edu
<mailto:assc7@klab.caltech.edu>
To find out more about the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult:
http://assc.caltech.edu/ The ASSC publishes two scientific journals about
which further information is available from the following websites:
Consciousness & Cognition: http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/cc.htm
PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ <http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
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ASSC7 Program Committee: Bernard Baars, David Chalmers, Axel Cleeremans,
Stan Franklin (chair), Thomas Metzinger, Geraint Rees, Ron Sun, Patrick
Wilken.
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Science & Consciousness Review (www.sci-con.org) has released new articles
and reviews:
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NEWS
Beyond ordinary consciousness
- by Fred Travis
Self-reports of integration of the transcendent with waking and sleeping
states correlate with objective reports of the integration of different EEG
patterns. As science earlier quantified the physiological markers of waking,
sleeping, and dreaming, so now research has begun to quantify the experience
of states beyond ordinary waking.
Full text:
http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030501.html
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LATEST HEADLINES
- Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition
- Autobiographical Memory and Conceptions of Self
- JOURNAL: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Representation of Change
- SUGGESTED LINK: McCormick Lab
See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html
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PREVIOUS ARTICLES
News:
Atoms of thought
- The microstate hypothesis of conscious states
http://www.sci-con.org/news/articles/20021202.html
News:
Recent Advances in Understanding Attention
http://www.sci-con.org/news/articles/20020603.html
Visit our archives at:
http://sci-con.org/archive.html
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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. Please update your links and preferences.
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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
Announcing a new book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
http://www.erlbaum.com/
D U A L I T Y O F T H E M I N D
A Bottom-up Approach toward Cognition
by Ron Sun
Synthesizing situated cognition, reinforcement learning, and hybrid
connectionist models, a cognitive architecture focused on situated
involvement and interaction with the world is developed in this book. The
architecture notably incorporates the distinction between implicit and
explicit processes.
The work described in the book demonstrates the cognitive validity of
the architecture, by ways of capturing a wide range of human learning
data. Computational properties of the architecture is explored with
experiments that manipulate implicit and explicit processes to optimize
performance in a range of domains. Philosophical implications
of the approach, on situated cognition, intentionality, symbol grounding,
and consciousness, are also explored in detail.
In a nutshell, this book motivates and develops a framework for
studying human cognition, based on an approach that is characterized by
its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, implicit
and explicit cognition.
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For more details, go to
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/book6-ann.html
To order the book, go to
https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-3880-5
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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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Dr. Kovács Gyula
Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem / Technical Univ. Budapest
Kognitiv Tudományi Központ / Center for Cognitive Sciences
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H-1111 Budapest Műegyetem rkp. 9 R. II/203
T:+36-1-463-1176
F:+36-1-463-1072
http://www.itm.bme.hu/ktk/gyula/index.htm
Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released
new articles and reviews:
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NEWS
What's the difference between an invisible face and an invisible face?
- by Anil K. Seth
Plenty, according to a recent study published in PNAS. It is reported that
invisible stimuli gives much information about what happens when a visual
image is consciously perceived. The study provides an original, useful, and
subjectively arresting methodology for teasing apart the relationship
between sensation and perception.
Full text:
http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030501.html
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LATEST HEADLINES
- Naturalizing consciousness: A theoretical framework
- Synaesthesia
- NEW ISSUE: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- RADIO: Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html
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PREVIOUS ARTICLES
News:
Recovering consciousness: A timeline
http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020904.html
News:
Knowing more than you see
http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020902.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. Please update your links and preferences.
_______________________ 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