CALL FOR PAPERS
As part of the annual conference series
“LANGUAGE, UNDERSTANDING, INTERPRETATION”,
the Philosophy Institute of Eotvos University and the MTA-ELTE
Philosophy of Language Research Group announces its conference entitled
LOGIC, LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
Date: September 17-19, 2009.
Location: Muzeum krt. 4/i Budapest, Hungary
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2009
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Hajnal Andreka (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics)
Ferenc Csaba (Eotvos University Budapest)
Gabor Forrai (University of Miskolc)
Gyula Klima (Fordham University)
Andras Mate (Eotvos University Budapest)
Tamas Mihalydeak (University of Debrecen)
Istvan Nemeti (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics)
Laszlo Polos (University of Durham (GB))
Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale University)
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University)
The conference is held in memory of Imre Ruzsa (1921-2008), the father
of modern philosophical logic in Hungary. His professional interests
centered around modal logic, intensional logic, modeling natural
language in systems of intensional logic, and the foundations of logic
and mathematics. He always thought of his generalization of A. N.
Prior’s concept of semantic value gaps to quantified, intensional and
type-theoretic systems as his most important contribution to logic. He
was the author of three books in English (Modal Logic with
Descriptions, The Hague, 1982, Intensional Logic Revisited, Budapest,
1991, Introduction to Metalogic, Budapest, 1993), several monographs
and textbooks in Hungarian, and many articles in leading logic
journals.
Several of Imre Ruzsa’s former students from across the globe will
gather to discuss his legacy, and also to present on some of his
favorite themes, topics, and areas—we invite you to do the same.
Contributions for 20-minute panel-presentations are sought in the
following areas: modal and intensional logics; logics with truth value
gaps; metalogic; Frege’s philosophy of language and mathematics;
Tarski’s theory of truth; and more broadly in philosophical logic,
mathematical logic, formal semantics, philosophy of mathematics, and
philosophy of language. Plenary talks will be in English; some of the
afternoon panels are held in English, some in Hungarian. Graduate
students are encouraged to submit.
Contributors are asked to submit the following in an email attachment:
(1) the title of their presentation (in the language in which they plan
to present), (2) a 15-line abstract, (3) school/institute affiliation,
and (4) e-mail address. Submissions should be sent to
ruzsaconf(a)phil.elte.hu
Yours sincerely,
the organizing committee of the conference:
Janos Kelemen, president
Andras Mate, co-president
Tibor Barany
Peter Mekis
Janos Tozser
Zsofia Zvolenszky
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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
Is logic universal?
Call for papers
Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis (Birkhauser/Springer)
http://www.birkhauser.ch/LU
There will be a special issue of the journal logica universalis
dedicated to the question "Is logic universal?"
Many questions are connected to this issue:
1. Do all human beings have the same capicity of reasoning?
Does a man, a woman, a child, a papuan, a yuppie, reason in the same way?
2. Does reasoning evolve?
Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago?
In the future will human beings reason in the same way?
Did computers change our way to reason?
Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ?
3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation?
Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy?
4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings?
5. Is there any absolute true way of reaoning ?
Any contibutions dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic
universal?" is welcome.
Submit your paper to
universal.logic(a)ufc.br
before August 31st 2009
Postdoctoral Research Positions in Early Social Cognition
Cognitive Developmental Center
Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
Directed by Professors Gergely Csibra and György Gergely
We have funding for two postdoctoral positions, starting from
September 2009 (or when filled), to work collaboratively on research
on social cognition in infants and toddlers. Specific questions of
investigation include early understanding of ostensive referential
communication, the development and representation of artifacts and
natural kind concepts, mechanisms of cultural transmission of generic
knowledge, and action understanding and representing other minds in
normally developing and autistic children, using behavioral, eye-
tracking and electrophysiological (EEG and ERP) techniques.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in psychology or a related field, and a
strong record of prior research accomplishments. Familiarity with eye-
tracking or electrophysiological methodology is an advantage.
Interested persons should send a cover letter stating research
interest, a CV, and contact address for 3 references to Human
Resources Office, Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Nádor
u. 9., Hungary, e-mail: hro(a)ceu.hu. We encourage electronic
applications. We will start reviewing applications in mid-April, 2009.
Informal inquiries about the positions could be addressed to Professor
György Gergely (gergelygy(a)ceu.hu) or to Professor Gergely Csibra (csibrag(a)ceu.hu
).
CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a graduate research-intensive university
specializing primarily in the social sciences, located in Budapest,
Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU's primary
mission is to promote academic excellence, state of the art research
and civic commitment, so as to contribute to the development of open
societies in Central and Eastern Europe. CEU offers both master's and
doctoral programs, and it enrolls about 1500 students from nearly 100
countries. The teaching staff consists of more then 130 resident
faculty from more than 30 countries, and a large number of prominent
visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction
is English.
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Laszlo Mero (Psychology, ELTE)
Title:
To see face to face: The nature of belief and belief-blindness
Date and time:
Wednesday, 25 March 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
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
30 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Marina Bakalova
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Ability View of Knowledge
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#5
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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
April Program
6 April
There will be no seminar session. Instead you are invited to the
following mini-conference:
Fischer Antal - Anton Fischer elete es a Becsi Kor elgondolasaihoz
fuzodo kapcsolata (http://minerva.elte.hu/nmft/AntonFischer.htm)
20 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Ferenc Huoranszki
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
A Dispositionalist Analysis of Causation
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/April/#3
27 April 4:00 PM Room 226
Gergely Szekely
Algebraic Logic, Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Megmaradasi tetelek a relativisztikus dinamikaban
(Conservation postulates in relativistic dynamics)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/April/#4
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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/April/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
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you
to the next screening of its Philm Club series:
Primer (2004) - directed by Shane Carruth, 77 min, English
Friday, March 27, 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
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Severin Schroeder (University of Reading)
on
A Tale of Two Problems: Wittgenstein's Discussion of Aspect Perception
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
What is the point of Wittgenstein's discussion of aspect perception (in `Part II' of the Philosophical Investigations)? I argue that what makes it so difficult to find a convincing answer to this question is that, in fact, in those passages Wittgenstein occupied himself with two connected, but distinct conceptual problems which he was not always careful to keep separate. The two problems are:
1. Are visual aspects actually seen or are they only thought of in an interpretation?
2. How (or in what sense) is it possible to experience an aspect (a thought, the meaning of a picture) in an instant?
Considering question (1), visual aspect perception may well be called `seeing', although it is often more concept-laden than seeing just shapes and colours. One crucial consideration for Wittgenstein to justify calling visual aspect perception `seeing' is that it involves a certain attitude towards an object, especially the internal object of a pictorial representation. Here, seeing-as is taken not only in an episodic sense, but also as a continuous and largely dispositional stance.
On the other hand, considering question (2), Wittgenstein was particularly interested in the phenomenon of the lighting up of an aspect. Question (2) is just another instance of the paradox of the instantaneous experience of complex contents already discussed in `Part I' of the Philosophical Investigations. There Wittgenstein asks `How is it possible to experience the meaning of a word (for example) in an instant?' and returns a negative answer (`It isn't'). Now, in his later writings he pursues the follow-up questions: `Why do we (feel compelled to) say so then?' and `What are we to think of that odd kind of experience?'. At this point the idea of instantaneous aspect perception is invoked as an object of comparison that might perhaps make the phenomenon of experiencing the meaning of a word appear less puzzling.
In the final section of my paper I distinguish between different types of aspect perception and offer a tentative suggestion as to how at least one type (`emotional seeing-as') may possibly be found to shed some light on the phenomenon of experiencing the meaning of a word.
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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szeminárium sorozatának *holnapi előadásá*ra:
Március 23., hétfő, 12:00-13:00, BME, XI., Stoczek u. 2., St. ép.,
320.-as terem.
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Neuro-Infobionikai Kutatócsoport, MTA-SE-PPKE
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Keresztes Attila
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Attila Keresztes
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
Stoczek u. 2, Budapest
1111, Hungary
Tel & Fax: +36 1 4631072
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening
of its Philm Club series:
Adam's Apples (2005) - directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
94 min, Danish with English subtitles
Friday, 20 March, 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
