koglist January 2009

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by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by David Lauer (Freie Universität, Berlin)) on The World in View. McDowell vs. Brandom on the Necessity of Experience Tuesday, 3 February, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Discussion of John McDowell’s contribution to the philosophy of perception tends to concentrate on his conceptualism - the thesis that the contents of perceptual experience are „conceptual through and through“. However, this astounding claim of McDowell’s is in fact just a corollary of two more basic tenets of his philosophy, namely the rejection of what Sellarsians call the „Myth of the Given“, and a commitment to what McDowell himself calls „Minimal Empiricism“. Therefore, in order to assess the credentials of McDowell’s conceptualism, his reasons for holding on to these tenets should be assessed. I will do so for the latter of the two. Minimal Empiricism is the thesis that we cannot understand our empirical beliefs as being about the world - and therefore, as being beliefs - if experience does not offer us reasons for them. Many commentators have complained that they cannot find a satisfying argument for this thesis in Mind and World. I will try to reconstruct an argument for Minimal Empiricism on McDowell’s behalf, using materials gathered from a series of exchanges between him and Robert Brandom, which revolves around a thought experiment originally introduced by Brandom and known as the story of the chickensexers. Brandom, like Davidson, thinks that we cannot and need not make sense of experience as offering us reasons for belief, and that we can understand the intentionality and world-involvingness of our thought and talk without relying on any theoretical notion of experience altogether. Against this, McDowell defends the claim that casting out experience from the realm of rational relations renders the position of the epistemic subject toward the world unrecognizable and therefore makes intentionality unintelligible. I will reconstruct McDowell as arguing for the idea that without reconstructing intentional world-involvingness as a structural feature of the sensory consciousness of an epistemic subject, as part and parcel of the phenomenology of our being-in-the-world, any attempt to exorcise the Myth of the Given (which unites McDowell with Brandom and Davidson) would remain incomplete. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

17 years, 3 months

CEU CDC seminar series

by Gergely Csibra

CEU Cognitive Development Center Our seminar series continues in the Spring term with the following talks: 4 Feb, 5.30pm Brenda Philips (Psychology, Sheffield) Acquiring artifact knowledge: How children use pedagogical and intentional cues to learn the function of novel tools 11 Feb, 5.30pm Ernő Téglás (Psychology, MTA) Mechanisms of probability computation in preverbal infants 18 Feb, 5.30pm Vlad Namescu (Anthropology, CEU) Learning religion in Eastern Christian monasticism: a case for the role of the imagination in religious experience 25 Feb, 5.30pm Mária Farkas (Biztos Kezdet Program) Sure Start in Hungary: Preventive Early Intervention for Socially Disadvantaged Children 11 March, 5.30pm Marcel Brass (Psychology, Gent) Shared representations of self and other: from visuo-motor priming to joint action 25 March, 5.30pm László Mérő (Psychology, ELTE) To see face to face: The nature of belief and belief-blindness Venue: Department of Philosophy, CEU Room 412, Zrinyi u. 14., 1051 Budapest Everyone is welcome to attend. --- Gergely Csibra

17 years, 3 months

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, February

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 February Program 16 February 4:00 PM Room 226 Gabor Kutrovatz Department of History and Philosophy of Science Faculty of Science, Eotvos University, Budapest Szakertelem es meta-szakertelem a tudomanyban (Expertise and Meta-expertise in Science) Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/February/#3 23 February 4:00 PM Room 226 Ferenc Csatari Department of Logic, Institute of Philosohy Eotvos University, Budapest Az egytol az omegaig - fejezetek a szamfogalom tortenetebol (From '1' to 'omega' - selected topics from the history of arithmetic) Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/February/#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/2008-2009/December/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

17 years, 3 months

invitation to the next screening of the Philm club

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening of its Philm Club series: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Stanley Kubrick, 93 min. Friday, 30 January, 6:00 p.m. TIGy Room, Nador 11 Courtyard The Philm Club aims at screening and discussing movies that raise philosophically relevant issues in accessible as well as entertaining ways. Find out more on the club's blog: http://philmclub.wordpress.com/ 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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Invitatation to two philosophy lectures

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to two lectures (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by John Cooper (Princeton University)) on Chrysippus on Physical Elements NOTE! Monday!! 26 January,, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT This paper concerns fundamental aspects of the Stoic conception of the physical world (Stoic cosmology). In Stoic theory, everything there is is corporeal (there are no "spirits" or "spiritual entities" of the sort that Platonist philosophy indulges in with abandon). But not all corporeal things arematerial entities: reason (whether in nature as a whole, organizing the world at large, or in our own minds and souls) is a spatially extended thing, able to act on matter, through which it is extended, but it is not a material thing. I discuss a neglected and not well appreciated text of Chrysippus, the most important philosopher among the originators of the Stoic "school" of philosophy, in which he identifies three usages of the term (physical) "element." One of these refers to the familiar physical elements of Greek theory: fire, water, air, and earth (the elements of matter). The other two usages are hard to figure out, and my focus in the paper is on how to understand these other two usages. AND by Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin) on The Mark of the Mental Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT I will claim that intentionalism about qualitative states, i.e. the thesis that qualitative states are identical with or supervene on intentional states, is incorrect even in its weak form, according to which qualitative states also have an intentional content. The best way to argue for intentionalism is to show that qualitative states have the features that qualify the simplest intentional states, i.e. objectual states such as Othello’s being jealous of Desdemona or Vladimir’s looking for Godot, namely the possible nonexistence and the possible aspectual shape of the intentional object of a state. Yet there are cases of qualitative states which fail to possess those features. As a result, if one wants to look for the mark of mental, it is better to turn one’s eyes away from intentionality. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

17 years, 3 months

Philm club invitation

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening of its Philm Club series: Irréversible 2002, directed by Gaspar Noé , 97 min. Friday, 23rd January,, 6:00 p.m. TIGy Room, Nador 11 Courtyard The Philm Club aims at screening and discussing movies that raise philosophically relevant issues in accessible as well as entertaining ways. Find out more on the club's blog: http://philmclub.wordpress.com/ 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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Vigil/Human Sex Differences in Expression of Emotion: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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From the perspective of a socio-relational framework, emotive behaviors evolved to facilitate the motivation to either exploit or avert specific types of relationships, and do so by advertising the two most parsimonious properties of reciprocity potential, or perceived attractiveness as a prospective social partner. These are the individual's (a) perceived capacity or ability to provide expedient resources or to inflict immediate harm onto others, and their (b) perceived trustworthiness or probability of actually reciprocating altruism (Vigil, 2007). Depending on the unique social demands and relational constraints that each sex evolved, individuals should be sensitive to advertise "capacity" and "trustworthiness" cues through selective displays of dominant vs. submissive and masculine vs. feminine emotive behaviors, respectively. In this article, I introduce the basic theoretical assumptions and hypotheses of the framework, and show how the models provide a solid scaffold to begin to interpret common sex differences in the emotional development literature. I conclude by discussing how the framework can be used to predict condition- and situation-based variation in mood and other forms of expressive behaviors. KEYWORDS: emotion, evolutionary psychology, femininity, masculinity, mood, motivation, nonverbal behaviors, sex differences, social behaviors, social cognition FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Vigil-02212008/Referees/ ================================================================== ================================================================== Instructions for BBS Associate Membership Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. 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17 years, 3 months

invitation to a philosophy lecture

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Robert Scharff (University of New Hampshire) on Heidegger's 'Untimely' Critique of Technology Tuesday, 20 January, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Heidegger’s treatment of technology is undoubtedly and fundamentally critical from beginning to end. About the hegemony and increasingly global reach of technoscientific understanding, he is deeply “distressed.” Yet his critics are wrong to conclude that Heidegger’s criticisms are overdrawn-that he suffers from anti-technoscientific bias or terminal pessimism. Objections of this sort typically misread Heidegger’s aims and selectively read his texts. His critique of technology is, in fact, “untimely” in Nietzsche’s sense. It says what people do not want to hear, precisely when they need to hear it. Hence, the standard objections to Heidegger’s critique are best viewed as the sign of a widespread contemporary tendency-a tendency found even among allegedly post-positivist and phenomenological writers about technoscience-to overestimate the degree to which we have left behind a Comtean, or classical positivist understanding of our age. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

17 years, 3 months

XVII. MAKOG, Budapest 2009

by Laszlo E. Szabo

KONFERENCIAFELHÍVÁS XVII. MAKOG A Magyar Kognitív Tudományi Alapítvány az MTA-ELTE Nyelvfilozófiai Kutatócsoportjával közösen konferenciát rendez A nyelvi és a mentális reprezentáció természete címmel. A konferencia ideje: 2009. május 7–9. A konferencia helyszíne: Az ELTE BTK Filozófia Intézete (Budapest 1088, Múzeum krt. 4. I. épület, Bence-terem). A konferenciára való jelentkezés határideje: 2009. április 1. A jelentkezéseket (melyeknek a tervezett előadás 10-15 soros összefoglalóját kell tartalmazniuk) a következő címre kérjük: xvii.makog(a)gmail.com Regisztrációs díj: 5000 Ft. Diákoknak: 3000 Ft. A konferencia weboldala: http://phil.elte.hu/MAKOG2009 A4-es méretű színes plakát letölthető innen: http://phil.elte.hu/MAKOG2009/makog2009.pdf A konferenciaelőadások írásos változataiból tanulmánykötet megjelentetését tervezzük. -- 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

17 years, 3 months

Call for papers: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2009 Budapest

by Gergely Csibra

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 17th ANNUAL MEETING: CEU Budapest, Hungary, August 27-30th 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 15th April 2009. ESPP Webpage: www.eurospp.org Conference Webpage: http://web.ceu.hu/phil/espp09/ Invited speakers include: Dare Baldwin (University of Oregon) Leonard Talmy (SUNY at Buffalo) Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma) Invited symposium organizers include: Loiuse Röska-Hardy - Rational Imitation Nick Shea and Tim Bayne - Consciousness in Vegetative State Patients Pierre Jacob - Dissociations Between Perception and Action The Society invites submitted papers, posters and symposia for this meeting. Previous topics covered at ESPP include spatial concepts, emotion, perception, simulation theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, causal understanding, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, connectionism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results. See www.eurospp.org for full details of electronic submission requirements. Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists. Submissions of papers and posters must include an abstract of 250 words maximum, in addition to a 750 word summary (psychology and linguistics) or a short paper (philosophy) They have to be submitted electronically through the ESPP web page www.eurospp.org by April 15, 2009. Symposium submissions should consist of a 250 word description and a list of speakers and should be sent by the potential convenor to the appropriate programme chair by March 15, 2009. We particularly welcome POSTER submissions. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as at designated poster sessions. The first author of each accepted poster (and who does not also present a paper) will get free ESPP membership for 2009. Programme chairs: Philosophy: Matt Nudds, U. Edinburgh, UK. matthew.nudds(a)ed.ac.uk Psychology: Sarah Beck, U. Birmingham, UK. s.r.beck(a)bham.ac.uk Linguistics: Peter Svenonius, U. Tromsoe, Norway. Peter.Svenonius(a)hum.uit.no --- Local organizers: Katalin Farkas (CEU) Gergely Csibra (CEU) György Gergely (CEU) Csaba Pléh (BME)

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