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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, change of May program

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf Change of program: Due to other obligations, Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti had to cancel their seminar talk originally scheduled for 21 May. Their lecture is postponed to June 4th, and Peter Fazekas' lecture will be held on 21 May: 21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Peter Fazekas Department of Philosophy, King's College London Department of Philosophy and History of Science, BUTE The physical story behind Phenomenal Concept Strategy Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3 Laszlo E. Szabo the organizer of the Forum (leszabo(a)philosophy.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://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

19 years

Ramsey et al/Animal innovation: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Ramsey-0824… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 17, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: Animal innovation defined and operationalized AUTHOR: Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian, and Carel van Schaik ABSTRACT: Innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture and intelligence. Additionally, innovations may affect a species ecology and evolution. Nonetheless, conceptual and empirical work on innovation has only recently begun. In particular, largely because the existing operational definition (first occurrence in a population) requires long-term studies of populations, there has been no systematic study of innovation in wild animals. To facilitate such study, we have produced a new definition of innovation: Innovation is the process generates in an individual a novel learned behavior that is not simply a consequence of social learning or environmental induction. Using this definition, we propose a new operational approach for distinguishing innovations in the field. The operational criteria employ information from the following sources: (1) the behaviors geographic and local prevalence and individual frequency; (2) properties of the behavior, such as the social role of the behavior, the context in which the behavior is exhibited, and its similarity to other behaviors; (3) changes in the occurrence of the behavior over time; and (4) knowledge of spontaneous or experimentally induced behavior in captivity. These criteria do not require long-term studies at a single site, but information from multiple populations of a species will generally be needed. These criteria are systematized into a dichotomous key that can be used to assess whether a behavior observed in the field is likely to be an innovation. KEYWORDS: behavior, culture, improvisation, innovation, invention, operational definition, social learning. FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ramsey-08242006/Referees/ ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Ramsey-0824… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 17, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years

Ramsey et al/Animal innovation: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Ramsey-0824… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 17, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: Animal innovation defined and operationalized AUTHOR: Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian, and Carel van Schaik ABSTRACT: Innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture and intelligence. Additionally, innovations may affect a species ecology and evolution. Nonetheless, conceptual and empirical work on innovation has only recently begun. In particular, largely because the existing operational definition (first occurrence in a population) requires long-term studies of populations, there has been no systematic study of innovation in wild animals. To facilitate such study, we have produced a new definition of innovation: Innovation is the process generates in an individual a novel learned behavior that is not simply a consequence of social learning or environmental induction. Using this definition, we propose a new operational approach for distinguishing innovations in the field. The operational criteria employ information from the following sources: (1) the behaviors geographic and local prevalence and individual frequency; (2) properties of the behavior, such as the social role of the behavior, the context in which the behavior is exhibited, and its similarity to other behaviors; (3) changes in the occurrence of the behavior over time; and (4) knowledge of spontaneous or experimentally induced behavior in captivity. These criteria do not require long-term studies at a single site, but information from multiple populations of a species will generally be needed. These criteria are systematized into a dichotomous key that can be used to assess whether a behavior observed in the field is likely to be an innovation. KEYWORDS: behavior, culture, improvisation, innovation, invention, operational definition, social learning. FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ramsey-08242006/Referees/ ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Ramsey-0824… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 17, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, change of the May program

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf Another change of program: I am sorry for ignoring the fact that 28 May is another non-working day in Hungary ... so, unfortunately, we have to cancel Marta Bilkova's lecture. So the May program will be the following: 7 May There will be no seminar session! Reason: Bruno Latour Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy? 5:30pm, Popper Room CEU (Nador u. 9) For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp 14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Tihamer Margitay Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus (How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2 21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Hajnal Andreka & Istvan Nemeti Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Relativistic computing and the Turing barrier Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3 With my apologies, Laszlo E. Szabo the organizer of the Forum (leszabo(a)philosophy.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://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

19 years

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, change of program, etc.

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf This is just to remind you that there will be no seminar session on 30 April.(30 April is a non-working day; the campus will be closed.) Peter Fazekas' lecture "The physical story behind Phenomenal Concept Strategy" is moved to 4th June. The next seminar session: 14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Tihamer Margitay Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus (How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2 Finally, let me call your attention to the following lecture: Bruno Latour Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy? 5:30pm, Popper Room, CEU (Nador u. 9) For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)philosophy.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://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, May

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf Program: May 7 May There will be no seminar session! Reason: Bruno Latour Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy? 5:30pm, Popper Room CEU (Nador u. 9) For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp 14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Tihamer Margitay Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus (How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2 21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Hajnal Andreka & Istvan Nemeti Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Relativistic computing and the Turing barrier Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3 28 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Marta Bilkova Department of Logic, Charles University, Prague Modal logic in computer science Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#4 ___________________________________ The Forum is open to everyone, including students,visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60 minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian. A printable poster is available from here: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/poster.pdf Please feel free to post it in your institution! The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)philosophy.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://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

19 years

MAKOG 2006 kotet es PDF

by Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, (1) A 2006-os kotet igen kedvezmenyes aron (1000 Ft) kaphato az ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken. (2) Az (potcikkekkel bovitett...) elektronikus formaja felkerult a Typotex honlapjara (courtesy Typotex Kft), elerheto a http://www.makog.hu -rol is. udv kgy

19 years

Byrne/The Rational Imagination: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, ================================================================== BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Byrne-04032… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 14, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Multiple Book Review Information ** ================================================================== Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. PRECIS OF: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality AUTHOR: Ruth M. J. Byrne, Trinity College Dublin ABSTRACT: The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. People often imagine how events might have turned out if only something had been different. The fault lines of reality, those aspects more readily changed, indicate that counterfactual thoughts are guided by the same principles as rational thoughts. In the past, rationality and imagination have been viewed as opposites. But research has shown that rational thought is more imaginative than cognitive scientists had supposed. In The Rational Imagination, I argue that imaginative thought is more rational than scientists have imagined. People exhibit remarkable similarities in the sorts of things they change in their mental representation of reality when they imagine how the facts could have turned out differently. For example, they tend to imagine alternatives to actions rather than inactions, events within their control rather than those beyond their control, and socially unacceptable events rather than acceptable ones. Their thoughts about how an event might have turned out differently lead them to judge that a strong causal relation exists between an antecedent event and the outcome, and their thoughts about how an event might have turned out the same lead them to judge that a weaker causal relation exists. In a simple temporal sequence, people tend to imagine alternatives to the most recent event. The central claim in the book is that counterfactual thoughts are organized along the same principles as rational thought. The idea that the counterfactual imagination is rational depends on three steps: humans are capable of rational thought; they make inferences by thinking about possibilities; and their counterfactual thoughts rely on thinking about possibilities, just as rational thoughts do. The sorts of possibilities that people envisage explain the mutability of certain aspects of mental representations and the immutability of other aspects. KEYWORDS: conditional, counterfactual, creativity, deduction, if only thoughts, imagination, rationality, reasoning, simulation http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Byrne-04032007/Referees/ ================================================================== BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Byrne-04032… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 14, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years

Byrne/The Rational Imagination: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

================================================================== BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Byrne-04032… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 14, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Multiple Book Review Information ** ================================================================== Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. PRECIS OF: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality AUTHOR: Ruth M. J. Byrne, Trinity College Dublin ABSTRACT: The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. People often imagine how events might have turned out if only something had been different. The fault lines of reality, those aspects more readily changed, indicate that counterfactual thoughts are guided by the same principles as rational thoughts. In the past, rationality and imagination have been viewed as opposites. But research has shown that rational thought is more imaginative than cognitive scientists had supposed. In The Rational Imagination, I argue that imaginative thought is more rational than scientists have imagined. People exhibit remarkable similarities in the sorts of things they change in their mental representation of reality when they imagine how the facts could have turned out differently. For example, they tend to imagine alternatives to actions rather than inactions, events within their control rather than those beyond their control, and socially unacceptable events rather than acceptable ones. Their thoughts about how an event might have turned out differently lead them to judge that a strong causal relation exists between an antecedent event and the outcome, and their thoughts about how an event might have turned out the same lead them to judge that a weaker causal relation exists. In a simple temporal sequence, people tend to imagine alternatives to the most recent event. The central claim in the book is that counterfactual thoughts are organized along the same principles as rational thought. The idea that the counterfactual imagination is rational depends on three steps: humans are capable of rational thought; they make inferences by thinking about possibilities; and their counterfactual thoughts rely on thinking about possibilities, just as rational thoughts do. The sorts of possibilities that people envisage explain the mutability of certain aspects of mental representations and the immutability of other aspects. KEYWORDS: conditional, counterfactual, creativity, deduction, if only thoughts, imagination, rationality, reasoning, simulation http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Byrne-04032007/Referees/ ================================================================== BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Byrne-04032… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than May 14, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is 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 suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, change of program

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf There will be no seminar session on 30 April, due to the fact that 30 April is a non-working day; the campus will be closed. Peter Fazekas' lecture "The physical story behind Phenomenal Concept Strategy" is moved to 4th June. With my apologies, Laszlo E. Szabo the organizer of the Forum (leszabo(a)philosophy.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://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

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