The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Gergely Csibra (Central European University)
on
Object-directed gaze as a communicative-referential signal
Tuesday, 3 March, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Lexical acquisition in young children has been shown to be supported by their sensitivity to social signals that indicate the potential referents of novel words. This led to the proposal that understanding the referential relation between words and their referents is ontogenetically derived from children's comprehension of other types of intentional relations, like perception or attention. I challenge this view by showing that referential expectation in communicative contexts developmentally precedes the understanding of perception and attention. The paradigmatic case here is the phenomenon of gaze following. I provide empirical arguments for the proposal that this behaviour serves two distinct functions in humans: in addition to informing the perceiver about the potential content of the perceptual state of the observed individual, gaze can also act as a non-verbal deictic signal. I demonstrate that human infants' tendency to follow others' gaze reflects this second, communicative-referential interpretation of gaze. Thus, grasping the referential relation between the behaviour of a communicator and an external referent is not dependent on, and is not derived from, the understanding of other types of intentional relations, while it could support lexical acquisition in its own right.
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
Room 226 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
Change in March Program:
9 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Joshua Schechter
Philosophy, Brown University
Justification, Rational Self-Doubt, and the Failure of Closure
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#2
Gergely Székely's lecture has been postponed to 27th April!
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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/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)
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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
2 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Zoltan Molnar
Department of Algebra, Mathematical Institute
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Instabilitas a logikaban
(Instability in logic)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#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/2008-2009/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
A L’HARMATTAN KIADÓ
tisztelettel meghívja Önt és barátait
AMBRUS GERGELY DEMETER TAMÁS
FORRAI GÁBOR TŐZSÉR JÁNOS
E l m e f i l o z ó f i a
szöveggyűjtemény
bemutatójára
2009. március 11-én, szerdán 16 órakor
az Írók Boltjába
(cím: 1056 Budapest, Andrássy út 45.)
A könyvet bemutatja: PLÉH CSABA
--
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
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening
of its Philm Club series:
Survive Style 5+
(2004, directed by Gen Sekiguchi ,120 min.
in Japanese with English subtitles)
Friday,27 February, 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/
Kedves Kollegak!
Ajanlom szives figyelmukbe az alabbi lehetoseget. Eloadokat es
hallgatokat egyarant szivesen latunk.
Udvozlettel:
Ropolyi Laszlo
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Call for Papers: Session on History of Cognitive Science
The XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology
will be held in Budapest between 28 July - 2 August, 2009. The
congress will have forty sessions and about one hundred symposia.
A special session of the congress will focus on the problems of history
of cognitive science and related topics. We invite original
contributions to the research on the broad field of cognitive science in the
context of history of interdisciplinarity.
The history of cognitive science has not yet attracted enough the
attention of professional historians of science. The two most accepted
texts on the subject (H. Gardner's "The Mind's New Science" (1985) and M.
Boden's "Mind as Machine" (2006)) are done by insiders whose
stories, although providing invaluable first-hand information, are
inevitably framed by their authors. personal attitudes and academic
preferences.
The aim of the session is to bring together cognitive scientists,
historians, philosophers and sociologists of science who are
interested in re-thinking and filling out the insiders. stories by
discussing the key issues in the half-century history of cognitive
science in a broader historical, philosophical and social context.
Informative and/or critical papers related to any aspect of the history
or pre-history of cognitive science are welcome but priority
will be given to texts which focus on the roots, the unfolding and the
results (especially the added value, if any) of the cognitive
interdisciplinary project, viewed as a part of the larger context of
history of interdisciplinarity.
If you are interested in the participation please visit the web site of
the congress (note that the real deadline for abstract
submission will be 6 March) and contact one of the session organizers.
The web site:
http://www.conferences.hu/ichst09/invitation.htm
We plan to publish a book based on the presented papers.
Kind regards,
The Organizers:
Lilia Gurova: lgurova(a)nbu.bg
and
Laszlo Ropolyi: ropolyi(a)elte.hu
Please forward this to anyone who would be interested.
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Mária Farkas (Biztos Kezdet Program)
Title:
Sure Start in Hungary: Preventive Early Intervention for Socially
Disadvantaged Children
Date and time:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 5.30 pm
CEU Philosophy Department
Room 412, Zrinyi u. 14, 1051 Budapest
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Gergely Csibra
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Martin Muransky (Comenius University, Bratislava))
on
Is There an Absolute Obligation to Ethics?
Tuesday, 24.February, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
the abstract can be found here:
http://web.ceu.hu/phil/talks_abstracts.html#MaMu
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Kedves Kollégák!
Várunk mindenkit szerettel a Szegedi Megismeréstudományi és Neuropszichológia Programon:
Bódizs Róbert: Az alvás és az alvászavarok kognitív idegtudományi megközelítésben. Február 27. Tömbösítve
Krajcsi Attila: Funkcionális képalkotó adatok elemzése. Márciusban Tömbösítve
Kovács Ágnes és Téglás Ernő: Kognitív fejlődés - Tudatelmélet, Végrehajtó Funkciók, Gondolkodás. Március 20. Péntek
Janka Zoltán: Pszichiátria. Csütörtök 12-14
Winkler István, Háden Gábor, Tisljár Roland: Egy távoli Föld pszichológiája: A sci-fi pszichológiai emberképe. Csütörtök 14-16 Kéthetente
Racsmány Mihály: Kognitív neuropszichológia. Kedd 14-16
Ivaskó Livia: Neurolingvisztika. Szerda 8-10
Tisljár Roland : Etológia. Kedd 16-18.
Németh T. Enikő: Pragmatika. Kedd 14-16
Németh Dezső: Pszicholingvisztika. Kedd 14-16
Szokolszky Ágnes: Tárgy- és eszközhasználat
További infók:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/
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NEMETH, Dezso
University of Szeged, Department of Psychology
Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/
Cognitive Sciences at University of Szeged:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/english/
Psychology at University of Szeged:
http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/pszichologia/
