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> From: "Paul Weith" <weith_paul(a)ceu-budapest.edu>
> Date: 23 November 2009 12:42:48 pm GMT+01:00
> To: "Gergely Csibra" <CsibraG(a)ceu.hu>
> Subject: PolBeRG event today: This is Your Brain in Politics
>
> Dear All,
>
> The Political Behavior Research Group cordially invites you to a
> fascinating talk about human nature, genetics, neuroscience and
> political behavior today, at 5:45 p.m. in FT 309. Darren Schreiber
> from the University of California San Diego, Department of Political
> Science, is one of the very few political scientists working with
> neuroscience and trying to reveal the biological roots of our
> political engagement and actions. Today, he will be presenting the
> paper outlined below:
>
> This is Your Brain on Politics
> by Darren Schreiber
>
> In political science, we have long had low levels of explanatory
> power with conventional models. Accounting for just a quarter of
> the variance is usually a tremendous accomplishment and often
> requires many independent variables and sophisticated statistical
> techniques. Two dogmas of the discipline, the behaviorist approach
> and rational choice theory, preclude biological explanations. In
> this talk, however, I will review a variety of results that show how
> some of the central phenomena of interest in the field can be
> accounted for using work based in genetics and neuroscience. I'll
> discuss work on race, political sophistication, voter turnout, and
> partisanship. And, I will show how we can use fMRI to predict your
> political party affiliation with shocking accuracy and some
> preliminary evidence of the neural substrates of egalitarianism.
>
> The Political Behavior Research Group (POLBERG) is a research-
> facilitating and learning environment for the study of political
> behavior and political communication. It organizes regular seminars
> with paper presentations, replication seminars, and more informal
> talks on research methods and emerging research agendas
> (seehttp://www.personal.ceu.hu/staff/voting_behavior/POLBERG).
> The events are open to students and faculty from any CEU department
> as well as interested scholars at other academic institutions, and
> offer them the opportunity to discuss their own research with a
> specialist audience. If you liked to learn more about upcoming POLBERG
> events, present your own work at the seminar or propose a guest
> speaker (e.g. a notable scholar whom you happen to know is going to
> visit Budapest), please email Paul Weith at paul_weith(a)ceu-budapest.edu
> .
>
> You are all welcome.
> Best wishes,
> The PolBeRG team.
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow))
on
Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience: Rethinking the Issue in
Light of an Indirect Mechanism
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Can the phenomenal character of perceptual experience be altered by the
states of one’s cognitive system, for example, one’s thoughts or
beliefs? If one thinks that this can happen (at least in certain ways
that are identified in the paper) then one thinks that there can be
cognitive penetration of perceptual experience; otherwise, one thinks
that perceptual experience is cognitively impenetrable. I claim that
there is one alleged case of cognitive penetration that cannot be
explained away by the standard strategies one can typically use to
explain away alleged cases. The case is one in which it seems
subjects’ beliefs about the typical colour of objects affects their
colour experience. I propose a two-step mechanism of indirect cognitive
penetration that explains how cognitive penetration may occur. I show
that there is independent evidence that each step in this process can
occur. I suspect that people who are opposed to the idea that perceptual
experience is cognitively penetrable will be less opposed to the idea
when they come to consider this indirect mechanism and that those who
are generally sympathetic to the idea of cognitive penetrability will
welcome the elucidation of this plausible mechanism.
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Wednesday 5:00 PM Room 226 Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
25 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Adrien Barton
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
Rationality and observations in an Everettian universe
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/November/#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/2009-2010/November/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
professor of philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
Dear Colleagues,
We'd like to call your attention to CEU's upcoming summer course "MEANING, CONTEXT, INTENTION". Also, we would greatly appreciate your help in promoting the course among your colleagues, your graduate students, or any interested researchers. We'd be grateful if you could forward the information below to those potentially
interested in our summer school (individuals, listservs, blogs,
electronic journals, etc.) and/or have a short announcement placed on a
relevant web site.
Thank you in advance, yours sincerely,
Zsófia Zvolenszky
----------------------------------------------------------
"MEANING, CONTEXT, INTENTION"
Course dates: JULY 19-30, 2010
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary,
Detailed course description: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/meaning
Tuition fee: EUR 550. Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 15, 2010
Online application (from late November): http://www.sun.ceu.hu/03-application/howto_apply.php
Course directors:
* Zsofia Zvolenszky, Eötvös University (ELTE), Institute of Philosophy,
Budapest, Hungary;
* Jason Stanley, Rutgers, Philosophy Department, New Brunswick, USA;
Jason Stanley, Zsófia Zvolenszky
Faculty:
* Ray Buchanan, University of Texas, Philosophy Department, Austin,
USA
* Herman Cappelen, University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy,
UK
* Wayne A. Davis, Georgetown University, Philosophy Department,
Washington DC, USA
* Katalin Farkas, Central European University, Philosophy
Department
* Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University, Center for Cognitive Science,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick US
* Stephen Neale, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
* Adam Sennet, University of California, Davis, Department of
Philosophy, USA
* Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Yale University, Department of Philosophy, USA
What we express, communicate by uttering a sentence varies with the context of utterance. What is the role of semantics in bringing this about? According to one simple model, a semantic theory assigns to sentences relative to contexts what would be expressed by those sentences in normal assertive utterances, by assigning values to the meaningful parts of the sentences in those contexts and combining them via a recursive process. According to another, radically different model, the meanings of words are rules that constrain the use of expressions, but there is no notion of what is said by a sentence (as opposed to the person) that matches the speaker's communicative intentions, and that plays a fundamental role in the account of communication. There are many versions of each of these views of linguistic communication. How we think about language is determined by which we adopt. The purpose of this course is to bring together leading researchers who have formed the debate, together with some younger researchers with new approaches.
This summer school invites applications from junior faculty and doctoral students at philosophy and linguistics departments. Minimum background required: philosophy of language at the advanced undergraduate level. Participants should ideally bring some work in progress related to the course theme for discussion during the course.
A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit tanszéki
szemináriumsorozatának *következő előadásá*ra:
November 30., hétfő, 12:00-13:00, BME, XI., Stoczek u. 2., St. ép.,
320.-as terem.
*Gyimesi Kinga*
PhD hallgató
BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék
Modalitások közötti interakciók hatása akusztikus és vizuális ingerek
kódolására és előhívására
Bővebb info itt <http://cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=102>
--
Attila Keresztes
PhD student
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
Stoczek u. 2, Budapest
1111, Hungary
Tel & Fax: +36 1 4631072
Tisztelt Kollegak,
Segitseguket kernem a kovetkezo uzenet celba erese erdekeben.
Jovo ev, 2010 januar 1.-tol indulo palyazatunk tamogatasaval lehetosegunk van egy PhD diak alkalmazasara. A palyazatbol fizetheto a PhD kurzus koltsege (ha koltsegteriteses) valamint a PhD osztondijnak megfelelo fizetes.
Palyajeloleses technikakban, histologiaban (feny es elektronmikroszkopos) vagy elektrofiziologiai modszerekben jaratos jeloltek elonyt elveznek. A tema a tapintas neuralis mechanizmusainak tanulmanyozasa foemlosok agykergeben. A kiserletek kollaboracioban az USA-ban folynak. A munka jellegebol fakadoan a jelolt minden evben nehany hetet vagy honapot az USA-ban toltene, ahol resztvesz a kiserletek elvegzeseben es az ahhoz szukseges modszerek elsajatitasaban. Az alkalmazott modszerek: elektrofiziologiai terkepezes, optical imaging es palyajelolo anyagok injektalasa. Az ezt koveto histologiai munka es az ehhez kapcsolodo adatgyujtes es feldolgozas itthon tortenik.
Jelentkezni a level aljan lathato cimen lehet.
Koszonettel,
Negyessy Laszlo
--
Laszlo Negyessy
Neurobionics Research Group,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences -
Peter Pazmany Catholic University - Semmelweis University
Tuzolto u. 58
H-1094 Budapest
Hungary
Tel.: +36-12156920 ext. 53712
Fax: +36-12176937
E-mail: negyessy(a)ana.sote.hu
negyessy(a)gmail.com
http://www.ana.sote.hu/cvhu_nl.htm
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Zsuzsa Kaldy
Associate Professor
UMass Boston
http://psych.umb.edu/faculty/kaldy/
Title: Apples and oranges: How to solve the problem of visual salience in
infant studies
Date and time:
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 5.00 pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1015+Budapest,+Budapest,+Hattyu+utca+14,+Hung…
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Our seminars start on time and we may not be able to let latecomers in.
Abstract:
What kind of featural information do infants rely on when they are
trying to recognize a previously seen object? The question of whether
infants use certain features (e .g. shape or color) more than others
(e. g. luminance), can only be studied legitimately if visual salience
is controlled, since the magnitude of feature values – how noticeable
and interesting they are – will affect results. We employed a novel
methodology that allowed us to quantify salience changes along shape,
luminance and color feature dimensions. We then compared infants’
identification of objects, employing feature changes that were equally
salient and found that infants more readily identify objects on the
basis of color and shape than luminance. Our method can be easily
adapted to different experimental paradigms (for example, visual
search) and have the potential to have a considerable impact on the
field of infant cognition.
Kedves Kollégák,
Kérjük továbbítsátok és hirdessétek más fórumokon is, ahol érdeklődésre
tarthat számot,
üdvözlettel,
Lukács Ágnes
KONFERENCIAFELHÍVÁS
*XVIII. MAKOG
*
*Interfészek a megismeréstudományban*
A megismeréskutatás visszatérő kérdése a kognitív rendszerek kapcsolata.
Előtérben áll ez a moduláris feldolgozással kapcsolatos vitákban, felmerül
az idegtudományi plaszticitás értelmezéseiben, de ugyanígy a modern
nyelvészet komponensek közötti viszonyokat kereső felfogásában is.
A konferenciára olyan előadásokat várunk melyek ezt a témát érintik, a
legtágabban értelmezve, vagyis ideértve a megismerőfunkciók közötti
kapcsolatokat, a modalitások közötti átjárást, a tudományterületek közötti
együttműködést egyaránt. Elsősorban a megadott témakörben várjuk a
jelentkezéseket, de ettől eltérő tematikájú előadásokat is szívesen látunk.
A konferencia ideje: *2010. január 25-26* (hétfő-kedd)
A konferencia helyszíne: *Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem*
A konferenciára való jelentkezés határideje: *2009. december 1.*
A legfeljebb egyoldalas előadáskivonatokat egy név nélküli és egy neveket is
tartalmazó példányban a következő emailcímre kérjük:
makog2010(a)cogsci.bme.hu
A hazai kognitív tudomány módszertani finomodását, az aktív kognitív mester
és doktori programokat figyelve úgy érezzük, hogy megérett a helyzet ahhoz,
hogy közel két évtizedes múlt után kivonatokon alapuló valódi anoním
szelekciót alkalmazó elbírálást használjunk.
A kivonatnak kísérleti munkákat bemutató előadások esetében hipotéziseket és
eredményeket kell tartalmaznia, az elméleti előadásoknál pedig a kiinduló
keret(ek) bemutatásán túl az előadás új hozzájárulását emelje ki. A
kivonatokat két független bíráló pontozza, a bírálatok elkészítésének
várható időpontja 2009. december 20.
A neveket is tartalmazó kivonaton legyenek feltűntetve az alábbiak:
Cím:
Név:
Intézmény:
email:
Regisztrációs díj: 5000 Ft
Diákoknak: 3000 Ft
Szervező: BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszéke
Pléh Csaba, Lukács Ágnes, Racsmány Mihály
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Vladan Djordjevic (University of Belgrade)
on
Assumptions, Premises and Antecedents
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
The distinction between the notions in the title, if followed by an appropriate pragmatic theory, can be more useful than it is usually recognized. I will explain the distinction and try to show its explanatory power through an examination of three well known paradoxes (the fatalism paradox, the so called direct argument, and a counterexample to modus ponens). For each of the paradoxes many different and often unrelated solutions have been proposed. I will argue that by using the distinction we can explain away all three of them.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Wednesday 5:00 PM Room 226 Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
18 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Tamás Füzessy
Department of Logic, Eötvös University, Budapest
Egy ismeretelméleti probléma vizsgálata formális eszközökkel
(Formal analysis of an epistemological problem)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/November/#3
___________________________________
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/2009-2010/November/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
professor of philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo