THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 226 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
7 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Tamas Tompa
Department of Physiology, University of Szeged
What You Always Wanted to Know About the Possible Philosophical Implications
of the Modern Neuroscientific Methods, but..
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/April/#1
___________________________________
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://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/March/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 226 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
April Program
7 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Tamas Tompa
Department of Physiology, University of Szeged
What You Always Wanted to Know About the Possible Philosophical Implications
of the Modern Neuroscientific Methods, but..
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/April/#1
14 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Gabor Bacs
Institute of Philosophy, Eotvos University, Budapest
Modalis realizmus hasonmasok nelkul
(Modal Realism without Counterparts)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/April/#2
21 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Lajos Hollokoi
Institute of Philosophy, Eotvos University, Budapest
Muveszetek es mualkotasaik, avagy, "Ugy tunik, leteznie kellene
egy ’esztetika’ nevu targynak, (…)”
(Arts and Works of Arts, or, "It seems that there ought to be a subject
called 'aesthetics', (…)”
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/April/#3
28 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Gabor Zemplen
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The use of argumentation studies in scientific controversies: investigating
the Newton-Lucas debate
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/April/#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://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/March/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 226 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
31 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Nenad Miscevic
Department of Philosophy, University of Maribor
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
Intuitions and thought experiments
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/March/#5
___________________________________
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://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/March/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
Dear All,
I`m sending you the final program of the conference
http://web.ceu.hu/phil/gradconf/program.html
Please note that Professor Galen Strawson's lecture is at 15:00 on
Sunday, and that the clocks change on Sunday!!
Best
Kriszta
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
on
Tria Genera Bonorum
Tuesday, 25 March, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
Abstract:
Go on, then, if you want, make your classifications and lay out your
fancy distinctions of goods into three or four or many kinds! These
categorizations have no bearing on the issue and this isnt the way to
bring us over to Plato. This complaint from the Platonist Atticus
reflects a long history of debate about the good. Is there just one kind
of good (one thinks of Platos Form of the good) or are the complex
classifications we find in later ancient texts closer to the truth? In
this paper I try to reconstruct the history of the doctrine that there
are goods of the body, goods of the soul, and external goods, along the
way pointing to the moral of the story: that technical classifications
can sharpen ethical discussion (such as the debate about the nature of
the happy life) but can just as easily undermine it if taken too far.
Platonists, Peripatetics and Stoics were all involved, but the positions
taken do not align with school affiliations; the philosophical
inclinations of individuals seem to play a greater role.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Tisztelt Érdeklődők!
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Kérem, terjesszék!
Üdvözlettel:
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BOOK: Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, 2007
AUTHORS: Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater
ABSTRACT: According to Aristotle humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and
irrationality is fundamental to many aspects of human life including the law, mental health, and language
interpretation. But what is it to be rational? One answer, deeply embedded in the Western intellectual
tradition since ancient Greece, is that rationality concerns reasoning according to the rules of logicthe
formal theory that specifies the inferential connections that hold with certainty between propositions.
Piaget viewed logical reasoning as defining the end-point of cognitive development; and contemporary
psychology of reasoning has focussed on comparing human reasoning against logical standards.
Bayesian Rationality argues that rationality is defined instead by the ability to reason about uncertainty.
While people are typically poor at numerical reasoning about probability, human thought is sensitive to
subtle patterns of qualitative Bayesian, probabilistic reasoning. In Chapter 14 of Bayesian Rationality,
the case is made that cognition in general, and human everyday reasoning in particular, is best viewed as
solving probabilistic, rather than logical, inference problems. In chapters 57 the psychology of
deductive reasoning is tackled head-on: it is argued that purportedly logical reasoning problems,
revealing apparently irrational behaviour, are better understood from a probabilistic point of view. Data
from conditional reasoning, Wasons selection task, and syllogistic inference are captured by recasting
these problems probabilistically. The probabilistic approach makes a variety of novel predictions which
have been experimentally confirmed. The book considers the implications of this work, and the wider
probabilistic turn in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, for understanding human rationality.
Keywords: Reasoning, rationality, logic, probability, Bayes theorem, rational analysis, selection task,
syllogisms, conditional inference, non-monotonic reasoning
PRECIS: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Oaksford-03132008/Referees/
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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:
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The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
on
Tria Genera Bonorum
Tuesday, 25 March, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
Abstract:
Go on, then, if you want, make your classifications and lay out your
fancy distinctions of goods into three or four or many kinds! These
categorizations have no bearing on the issue and this isnt the way to
bring us over to Plato. This complaint from the Platonist Atticus
reflects a long history of debate about the good. Is there just one kind
of good (one thinks of Platos Form of the good) or are the complex
classifications we find in later ancient texts closer to the truth? In
this paper I try to reconstruct the history of the doctrine that there
are goods of the body, goods of the soul, and external goods, along the
way pointing to the moral of the story: that technical classifications
can sharpen ethical discussion (such as the debate about the nature of
the happy life) but can just as easily undermine it if taken too far.
Platonists, Peripatetics and Stoics were all involved, but the positions
taken do not align with school affiliations; the philosophical
inclinations of individuals seem to play a greater role.
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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From: "Szegedi Péter" <pszegedi(a)caesar.elte.hu>
To: <mafla(a)phil.elte.hu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: XXIIIrd Congress of History of Science
Tisztelt Kollegak,
Felhivom a figyelmuket az alabbi konferenciara:
The International Union for the History and Philosophy of
Science/Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPS/DHST) is
organizing its XXIIIrd Congress of History of Science and Technology
from July 26-31, 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.
Congress Secretariat
c/o SCOPE Ltd.
Kende u. 13-17.
phone: +36-1-209-6001
fax: +36-1-386-9378
e-mail: ichst09(a)conferences.hu
homepage: http://www.conferences.hu/ichst09
The main topic of the Congress is: "Ideas and Instruments in Social
Context."
This slogan, conjuring images of both scientific theory and practice,
is meant to suggest a broad agenda, not a restrictive one. The
organizers welcome a wide range of proposals for papers and sessions,
covering any period from antiquity to the present and any place on
the face of the globe.
Although all presentations should relate to the history of science or
technology, they may focus on institutions as well as beliefs,
inventions as well as applications, the popular as well as the
abstruse. They may explore the historical relations of science and
technology with such topics as politics, medicine, religion, gender,
education, and the arts-or look at the intersection of the history of
science and technology with philosophy and sociology.
Ideas mean, in this respect, all kinds of scientific, technical,
philosophical, religious, political and social ideas that influenced,
in a given period and in a given area, the development of science and
technology. Topics that show the mutual influence of philosophical,
religious, political and social ideas and scientific and technical
development are highly appreciated. The analysis of ideas that
brought into being or changed an instrument or an institution forms
also part of the topic.
All kinds of scientific and technical instruments as preserved in
museums, descriptions, memories and in art belong to the topic of the
congress. The influence of the instruments on the culture of the
laboratories and on everyday life in the different periods is also a
highly appreciated topic of the congress.
The history of all kinds of "instruments" that helped or hindered the
development of science and technology like legislation,
international, state or local influence, and institutions are
incorporated into the second part of the topic.
For much of the history of our discipline, two separate and sometimes
antagonistic approaches to the history of science have focused on the
study of ideas, and on the study of instruments. However, in the past
few decades, more and more scholars have striven to integrate both
aspects, showing that instruments not only constitute the material
culture of science, but also shape and even embody ideas. They are
also central in understanding how science operates within societies,
is shaped by the milieus as well as the material conditions in which
it is produced, and in return contributes to the construction of
these societies. The advent of "Big Science" in the twentieth
century, closely dependent on highly sophisticated and costly
instruments, has forcefully brought forward the importance of their
study by historians of science.
Moreover, the Budapest Congress will be the first to be held after
our Division´s change of name from "Division of History of Science"
to "Division of History of Science and Technology" in 2005. In order
to explicitly bring out the ways in which science and technology have
been interrelated in history and how studies of both fields are
complementary, a series of plenary lectures, symposia and special
sessions will be devoted to "Science and ideas in social context",
with the aim of bringing together historians of science and
historians of technology, and to enhance common discussion on objects
that are traditionally regarded as pertaining exclusively to one or
the other.
The most important deadlines are:
Deadline for symposia proposals 30 June 2008
Second Circular 30 September 2008
Deadline for determination of the final symposia programs 15 December
2008
Deadline for grant applications 15 January 2009
Confirmation of grant applications 15 February 2009
Deadline for submission of paper abstract 15 March 2009
Deadline for notification of working meeting by DHS Commission 15
March 2009
Deadline for acceptance of abstracts 15 April 2009
Deadline for early registration 30 April 2009
Deadline for hotel reservations 30 April 2009
Third Circular 31 May 2009
Opening of the Congress 26 July 2009
For all other information please visit the Congress homepage:
http://www.conferences.hu/ichst09.
To receive further information please register using the "Intention
to participate form" on the website.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Budapest in July 2009.
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC).
Dr. Szegedi Peter
a LOC tagja
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