koglist October 2004

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by Istvan Aranyosi

Dear Colleague! The Budapest Mind Society was founded in mid-September, 2004, by two graduate students, Hong Yu Wong (UCL) and Istvan Aranyosi (CEU), and its purpose is to facillitate communication among researchers in philosophy of mind and related subjects in Hungary. We are organizing talks on a regular basis, with speakers mostly from Hungary. However, researchers from outside Hungary are very welcome to present their newest research in these fields. We already have a list of potential speakers for 2005, who expressed interest in lecturing, and we would be happy to extend it as much as possible. If someone has some business in Hungary and would like to give a talk under the aegis of the society, (s)he should not hesitate contacting the organizers. Information about the society, contact, and current schedule is to be found at: http://philosophy.elte.hu/bms/ We are happy to observe that the BMS, even if the newest such forum of ideas in Hungary, has become the most successful of its kind so far, in terms of attendance (numbers and diversity [in terms of research, institutional, and ethnic background]). Part of our future plans is to find sources of funding, to be able to set up an annual conference (with a student section and a paper prize), as well as a reading group, discussing a new and influential philosophy of mind monograph each year, followed by a workshop having the author of the monograph as a discussant. Ideas about potential international sources of funding are extremely welcome. Yours with best wishes, Istvan Aranyosi http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/

21 years, 6 months

Fw: Last Call for Papers: Special Issue M4M

by Kampis

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carlos Areces <carlos(a)science.uva.nl> > To: <cogling(a)ucsd.edu> > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 7:39 PM > Subject: Last Call for Papers: Special Issue M4M > > >> Last Call for Papers for >> >> "Methods for Modalities" >> >> A Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic >> (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708683) >> >> The workshop `Methods for Modalities' (M4M) organized every two >> years aims to bring together researchers interested in developing >> proof tools and decision methods for modal logic broadly conceived, >> including description logic, hybrid logic, temporal logic, etc. >> >> During 2003 M4M-3, the third instance of the workshop was organized >> in Nancy, France. We have been invited by the Journal of Applied >> Logic to prepare a Special Issue containing selected publications >> from the workshop, in addition to other articles that might fit >> within the topics of interest of M4M. For that reason we are now >> distributing this Call for Papers. >> >> >> TOPICS OF INTEREST OF M4M >> >> The following list is provided as an example of suitable topics for >> the Special Issue. All topics should concern modal-like logics, >> broadly conceived. The list is by no means exhaustive and is given >> in an arbitrary order: >> >> * Automated theorem proving >> * Decision methods >> * Proof methods >> * Standard and non-standard inference problems >> * Model checking >> * Testing >> * Expressive power >> * Modelling >> * Applications >> * Successful uses of modal-like languages in other fields >> * Knowledge representation >> >> >> SUBMISSION DETAILS >> >> The final version of accepted papers has to follow the standard >> layout guidelines of the Journal of Applied Logic. Instructions >> for authors and the latex style files are available from >> >> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~m4m/SI/ >> >> Although not mandatory, we suggest to use the corresponding style >> files from that web-page also for your initial submission. The >> issue aims at high quality papers with a length around 20 to max. 30 >> pages. Please send your submission in postscript or pdf no later >> than October 31th, 2004 to >> >> areces(a)loria.fr. >> >> Notice that all papers will be refereed to ensure that their >> suitability for journal publication. >> >> >> >> IMPORTANT DATES >> >> Deadline for Submissions: October 31th, 2004 >> Reviews Due : November 21th, 2004 >> Final Versions Due : December 19th, 2004 >> >> >> GUEST EDITORS of the Special Issue >> >> Dr. Carlos Areces >> INRIA Lorraine >> 615, rue du Jardin Botanique >> 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France >> phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 >> fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 >> e-mail : carlos.areces(a)loria.fr >> www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces >> > >

21 years, 6 months

Crane-talk @ 4th Mind Society meeting

by Istvan Aranyosi

Hello Everyone! Below and linked find the info about the 4th Meeting of the Budapest Mind Society, which will have Prof. Crane from London as its protagonist. Note that from November 2004 on the sessions will be chaired by -and information about the activities of BMS will be avalilable from- Andras Simonyi simka(a)ludens.elte.hu , as both Hong Yu Wong and Istvan Aranyosi, who founded this group, will have left Hungary by then. http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Budapest_Mind_Societ… --------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Tim Crane, Philosophy, University College London 'The efficacy of colour, shape and size' 10 November, Wednesday, 2004, 5 PM, Dept. of Philosophy, CEU, Zrinyi 14, #412. Asbtract: This paper presents an antinomy about the role of properties in causation. If we think of causation in terms of counterfactual dependence, then there is a persuasive case (made, for example, by Stephen Yablo) for thinking that determinable properties (like redness) can be causes. But on the other hand, if we think of properties as the 'truth-makers' for predications, then it is arguable that only determinate properties (maximally specific shades of colour) are causes. But these claims cannot both be true; which should we deny? ------------------------------------------------------------ Everybody welcome! I will send a reminder a few days before the talk. Cheers Istvan

21 years, 6 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Matolcsi

by Laszlo E. Szabo

21 years, 6 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, November

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 Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 http://hps.elte.hu/seminar Program: November 8 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: Hungarian) T a m a s M a t o l c s i Applied Analysis, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Terido-modellek: kozos gyokerek (Space-time models: common roots) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/November/index.html#1 15 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English, except if all participants speak Hungarian) L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Does special relativity theory tell us anything new about space and time? Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/November/index.html#2 22 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English) H o w a r d M. R o b i n s o n Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest Concept of matter and concept of power Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/November/index.html#3 29 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English, except if all participants speak Hungarian) K a t a l i n M a r t i n a s*+ L a s z l o R o p o l y i++ ___________ * lecturer +Atomic Physics, ++History and Philosophy of Science Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Aristotelian thermodynamics Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/November/index.html#3 ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through 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) -- 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 http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo

21 years, 6 months

Let's dumb-up (journal citation) impact factors

by Stevan Harnad

The following is a commentary on an editorial in the British Medical Journal entitled: Let's dump impact factors Kamran Abbasi, acting editor BMJ 2004;329 (16 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7471.0-h http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7471/0-h I've submitted the following commentary. It should appear Monday at: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7471/0-h Prior Amsci Topic Thread: "Citation and Rejection Statistics for Eprints and Ejournals" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0138.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1112.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrich Impact Measures Through Open Access Analysis (Or: "Let's Dumb-Up Impact Factors") Stevan Harnad The "journal impact factor" -- the average number of citations received by the articles in a journal -- is not an *invalid* instrument, but a blunt (and obsolescent) one. It does have some meaning and some predictive value (i.e., it is not merely a circular "definition" of impact), but we can do far better. Research impact evaluation should be thought of in multiple-regression terms: The journal impact factor is just one of many potential predictive factors, each with its own weight, and each adding a certain amount to the accuracy of the prediction/evaluation. The journal impact factor is the first of the regression weights, but not because it is the biggest or strongest, but just because it came first in time: Gene Garfield (1955, 1999) and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) started to count citations (and citation immediacy, and other data) and produced an index of the average (2-year) citation counts of journals -- as well as the individual citation counts of articles and authors. The fact that unenterprising and unreflecting evaluation committees found it easier to simply weight their researchers' publication counts with the impact factors of the journals in which they appeared was due in equal parts to laziness and to the valid observation that journal impact factors *do* correlate, even if weakly, with journals' rejection rates, hence with the rigour of their peer review, and hence with the quality of their contents: "High citation rates... and low manuscript acceptance rates... appear to be predictive of higher methodological quality scores for journal articles" (Lee et al. 2002) "The majority of the manuscripts that were rejected... were eventually published... in specialty journals with lower impact factor..." (Ray et al. 2000) "perceived quality ratings of the journals are positively correlated with citation impact factors... and negatively correlated with acceptance rate." (Donohue & Fox 2000) "There was a high correlation between the rejection rate and the impact factor" (Yamasaki 1995) But even then, the article and author exact citation counts could have been added to the regression equation -- yet only lately are evaluation committees beginning to do this. Why? Again, laziness and unenterprisingness, but also effort and cost: An institution needs to be subscribed to ISI's citation databases and needs to take the trouble to consult them systematically. But other measures -- richer and more diverse ones -- are developing, and with them the possibility of ever more powerful, accurate and equitable assessment and prediction of research performance and impact (Harnad et al. 2004). These measures (e.g. citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/) include: citation counts for article, author, and journal; download counts for article, author and journal; co-citation counts (who is jointly cited with whom?); eventually co-download counts (what is being downloaded with what?); analogs of google's "page-rank" algorithm (recursively weighting citations by the weight of the citing work); "hub/authority" analysis (much-cited vs. much-citing works); co-text "semantic" analysis (what -- and whose -- text patterns resemble the cited work?); early-days download/citation correlations (http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php) (downloads today predict citations citations in two years (Harnad & Brody 2004); time-series analyses; and much more. So the ISI journal-impact factor is merely a tiny dumbed-down portion of the rich emerging spectrum of objective impact indicators; it now needs to be dumbed-up, not dumped! Two things need to be kept in mind in making pronouncements about the use of such performance indicators: (i) Consider the alternative! The reason we resort to objective measures at all is that reading and evaluating every single work anew each time it needs to be evaluated is not only subjective but labour-intensive, and requires at least the level of expertise and scrutiny that (one hopes!) the journal peer review itself has accorded the work once already, in a world in which qualified refereeing time is an increasingly scarce, freely-given resource, stolen from researchers' own precious research time. Citations (and downloads) indicate that researchers have found the work in question useful in their own research. (ii) The many new forms of impact analysis can now be done automatically, without having to rely on ISI -- if and when researchers make all their journal articles Open Access, by self-archiving them in OAI compliant Eprint Archives on the Web. Remarkable new scientometric engines are just waiting for that open database to be provided in order to add the rich new panoply of impact measures promised above (Harnad et al. 2003). Donohue JM, Fox JB (2000) A multi-method evaluation of journals in the decision and management sciences by US academics. OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 28 (1): 17-36 Garfield, E., (1955) Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas. SCIENCE 122: 108-111 http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/science_v122(3159)p108y1955.htm Garfield E. (1999) Journal impact factor: a brief review. CMAJ 161(8): 979-80. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/161/8/979 Harnad, S. and Brody, T. (2004) Prior evidence that downloads predict citations BMJ Rapid Responses, 6 September 2004 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7465/546#73000 Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access. SERIALS REVIEW 30. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. ARIADNE 35 (April 2003). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/ Lee KP, Schotland M, Bacchetti P, Bero LA (2002) Association of journal quality indicators with methodological quality of clinical research articles. AMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 287 (21): 2805-2808 Ray J, Berkwits M, Davidoff, F (2000) The fate of manuscripts rejected by a general medical journal. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 109 (2): 131-135. Yamazaki, S (1995) Refereeing System of 29 Life-Science Journals Preferred by Japanese Scientists SCIENTOMETRICS 33 (1): 123-129

21 years, 6 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Gy. Bene

by Laszlo E. Szabo

21 years, 6 months

Fw: final call: 9th International Pragmatics Conference

by Kampis

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jef Verschueren <jef.verschueren(a)ua.ac.be> > To: <cogling(a)ucsd.edu> > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:35 PM > Subject: final call: 9th International Pragmatics Conference > > >> THE ABSTRACTS DEADLINE HAS BEEN MOVED FROM 15 OCTOBER 2004 TO 1 NOVEMBER >> = >> 2004. No further extensions will be possible! >> >> The 9TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE will be held on 10-15 July = >> 2005 at the Riva del Garda Congressi conference center = >> (www.palacongressi.it ), RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY=20 >> >> >> For the full call for papers, go to the IPrA website at >> >> www.ipra.be=20 >> >> Abstracts submission is entirely web-based. Just visit the site and = >> follow the instructions. >> >> >> CONFERENCE CHAIR: Marina SBISA (Univ. of Trieste; sbisama(a)units.it )=20 >> >> LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are: >> = >> Claudia BIANCHI (Univ. of Genova); Paolo BOUQUET (Univ. of Trento); = >> Claudia CAFFI (Univ. of Genova); Alessandra FASULO (Univ. of Roma 'La = >> Sapienza'); Roberta FERRARIO (Univ. of Trento); Franca ORLETTI (Univ. of >> = >> Roma Tre); Luigi PERISSINOTTO (Univ. Ca Foscari of Venezia); Fabio = >> PIANESI (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento); = >> Oliviero STOCK (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, = >> Trento); Stefano ZANOBINI (Univ. of Trento). >> >> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the = >> Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes: = >> Karin AIJMER (Univ. of G=F6teborg); Jens ALLWOOD (Univ. of G=F6teborg); = >> Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough Univ.);=20 >> Walter DE MULDER (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Editor); Helmut GRUBER (Univ. = >> of Vienna; IPrA Editor); John GUMPERZ (Univ. of California, Santa = >> Barbara; IPrA President 1986-1990); Monica HELLER (Univ. of Toronto); = >> Andreas JUCKER (Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen; IPrA Treasurer); Sophia = >> MARMARIDOU (Univ. of Athens; IPrA Editor); Bonnie McELHINNY (Univ. of = >> Toronto); Jacob MEY (Odense Univ.); Jan-Ola =D6STMAN (Univ. of = >> Helsinki); Ben RAMPTON (King's College London); Anna-Brita STENSTR=D6M = >> (Univ. of Bergen); Elizabeth TRAUGOTT (Stanford Univ.); Jef VERSCHUEREN = >> (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Secretary General); Yorick WILKS (Univ. of = >> Sheffield); John WILSON (Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown). >> >> >> >> THEMES: As always, the conference will be open to all themes relevant to >> = >> the pragmatics of language in its widest sense as an interdisciplinary = >> cognitive, social, and cultural perspective. In addition, there is a = >> special theme.=20 >> >> SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics and Philosophy=20 >> >> It is both interesting and scientifically productive for pragmatics to = >> revisit and discuss its philosophical starting points and enduring = >> presuppositions, as well as its philosophical implications. Various = >> philosophical problems may benefit from being discussed in a pragmatic = >> perspective, and philosophy itself as a discourse genre is liable to be = >> analyzed by a pragmatic approach. The range of themes meant to be = >> covered by the special topic "Pragmatics and Philosophy" therefore = >> includes at least:=20 >> . philosophical heritages of pragmatics: Austin, Grice, Searle, = >> Wittgenstein, Carnap, pragmatism, phenomenology;=20 >> . philosophical frameworks for pragmatics: speech act theory, = >> neo-Gricean and post-Gricean frameworks, theories of meaning as use, = >> theories of context, pragmatics and hermeneutics, pragmatics and = >> cultural studies;=20 >> . overlaps between pragmatics and philosophy: the semantics/pragmatics = >> interface, indexicals, presupposition, implicature, speech acts, = >> propositional attitudes, context logics, contextualist epistemology, = >> intentionality and subjectivity, agency, emotions, rhetoric, personal or >> = >> collective identities;=20 >> . pragmatics of the philosophical discourse genre: analysis of = >> philosophical discourse, pragmatic approaches to argumentation and = >> dialogue, pragmatics and the teaching of philosophy.=20 >> >> Plenary lectures will include: >> >> Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India), = >> Pragmatics, pragmatism & the postcolonial >> >> >> Robyn CARSTON (University College London), Pragmatics: From philosophy = >> to cognitive science >> >> Steven DAVIS (Carleton University, Ottawa), Demonstratives and = >> understanding >> >> Charles GOODWIN (Univ. of California at Los Angeles), Multi-modal action >> = >> in discourse >> >> Clotilde PONTECORVO (Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza'), From talking to = >> reasoning >> >> >> Marina SBISA (Univ. of Trieste), How to read Austin >> >> >> >> And there will be a plenary session organized by: >> >> Paolo BOUQUET (Univ. of Trento) & Oliviero STOCK (IRST), Computational = >> pragmatics. Guest speaker: Wolfgang WAHLSTER (Universit=E4t des = >> Saarlandes). >> >> >> >> CALL FOR PAPERS=20 >> Abstracts Deadline: 1 November 2004 >> >> >> Two types of paper proposals are invited:=20 >> >> 1. For single-paper presentations to be included in regular lecture = >> sessions (20-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion = >> and allowing 5 minutes for switching between sessions). Author who wish = >> to present their paper as a poster, may choose to do so. >> >> 2. For panels or multi-paper sessions. Panels take the form of a series = >> of closely related lectures on a specific topic. They may consist of = >> one, two or three units of 120 minutes. Within each panel unit an = >> average of four 20-minute presentations are given consecutively; the = >> rest of the period may be taken up by an introduction, open discussion, = >> comments by a discussant or discussants, or any combination of these. = >> Panels are composed of contributions invited by panel organizers, = >> combined with individually submitted papers when judged appropriate by = >> the Conference Committee in consultation with the panel organizers. = >> Typically, written versions or extensive outlines of all panel = >> contributions should be available to the other contributors before the = >> conference in order to facilitate discussion.=20 >> Note that in addition to a panel abstract (to be submitted by the panel = >> organizers), abstracts for all panel contributions, even when invited = >> directly by panel organizers, have to be sent in individually (following >> = >> the single-paper presentations option) and will be reviewed individually >> = >> and anonymously.=20 >> >> For detailed instructions, go to www.ipra.be >> >> Contact: info(a)ipra.be=20 >> > >

21 years, 6 months

meghívó Mérő László

by Sz. Molnár Szilvia

Tisztelt Hölgyem/Uram, mellékelve küldöm meghívónkat Mérő László új könyvének bemutatójára és dedikálására. Üdvözlettel: Sz. Molnár Szilvia Tericum Kiadó szmolnar(a)tericum.hu www.tericum.hu 1036 Budapest Evező u. 1. II. em. 2. Tel: 453 09 29 Fax: 240 56 73

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kognitiv pszichofiziologia kurzus

by Honbolygo Ferenc

Az ELTE-PPK és a DE-BTK Doktori Iskolák Kognitív Pszichológiai Alprogramja elõadás-sorozatot hirdet "KOGNITÍV PSZICHOFIZIOLÓGIA" címmel. Az elõadások helye: MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet (VI. Budapest, Szondi u. 83-85). Az elõadások a megadott napokon de. 10.00-kor kezdõdnek. Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk! Idõpont Elõadó Elõadás címe október 29. Marton Magda születésnapja alkalmából tartott tudományos ülés (MTA-PKI, XIII. Victor H. u. 18-22, alagsor 31. sz. elõadóterem) november 5. Csépe Valéria Fejlõdés-idegtudomány november 12. Czigler István Újdonságdetekció november 19. Csépe Valéria Pszicho-fizio-lingvisztika november 26. Czigler István Az öregedés pszichofiziológiája december 3. Molnár Márk Nemlineáris és lineáris EEG-szinkronizáció: pszichofiziológiai háttér, klinikai vonatkozások december 10. Karmos György Az eseményhez kötött agyi potenciálok genezise december 17. Winkler István Az egyszerû ötlettõl a bonyolult kísérletig: esettanulmány a hallási eseményfüggõ válaszok körébõl The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: kogn_pszichfiz_kiiras.doc Date: 15 Oct 2004, 11:36 Size: 33792 bytes. Type: Unknown

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