koglist March 2009

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29 discussions

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Nenad Miscevic

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 16 March 4:00 PM Room 226 Nenad Miscevic Department of Philosophy, University of Maribor Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest The genealogy of intuitions Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#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/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

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Reminder: CEU CDC seminar, March 11

by Gergely Csibra

The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at the CEU will be given by Marcel Brass (Psychology, Gent) Title: Shared representations of self and other: from visuo-motor priming to joint action Date and time: Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 5.30 pm CEU Philosophy Department Room 412, Zrinyi u. 14, 1051 Budapest Everyone is welcome to attend. --- Gergely Csibra

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invitation to the next Philm club screening

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening of its Philm Club series: "Jacob's Ladder" 1990, directed by Adrian Lyne, 115 min. Friday, March 6, 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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előadás Szegeden - Mari Zoltán

by Dezso NEMETH

Kedves Kollégák, Hallgatók! Sok szeretettel várunk titeket a következő nyilvános előadásunkra: Előadó: Mari Zoltán, Department of Neurology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore Előadás címe: Event-Related Desynchronization in Functional Myoclonus Időpont: 2009. március 11. szerda, 16.30 Helyszín: SZTE Pszichológiai Intézet, Konferencia szoba, Szeged, 6722, Egyetem u. 2. Földszint üdvözlettel Németh Dezső Megismeréstudományi Csoport SZTE Pszichológiai Intézet

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Habermas konferencia

by George Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, Boros Janos meghivoja, udv kgy

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Joshua Schechter

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 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 postponed to 27th April!) ___________________________________ 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

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lecture on March 10 - canceled

by Krisztina Biber

Dear All, This is to inform you that the lecture (dept colloquium) that was scheduled for 10 March had to be canceled. Best, Kriszta

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invitation to a lecture

by Krisztina Biber

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

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Evans & Levinson/Myth of Language Universals: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Evans-08042… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than March 20, 2009. 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: http://www.bbsonline.org/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: The Myth of Language Universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science AUTHORS: Nicholas Evans and Stephen Levinson ABSTRACT: Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the direct sense that all languages exhibit them. Instead, diversity can be found at almost every level of linguistic organization. This fundamentally changes the object of enquiry from a cognitive science perspective. The article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once we honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6-8000 languages. After surveying the various uses of 'universal', we illustrate the ways languages vary radically in sound, meaning, and syntactic organization, then examine in more detail the core grammatical machinery of recursion, constituency, and grammatical relations. While there are significant recurrent patterns in organization, these are better explained as stable engineering solutions satisfying multiple design constraints, reflecting both cultural-historical factors and the constraints of human cognition. Linguistic diversity then becomes the crucial datum for cognitive science: we are the only species with a communication system which is fundamentally variable at all levels. Recognising the true extent of structural diversity in human language opens up exciting new research directions for cognitive scientists, offering thousands of different natural experiments given by different languages, with new opportunities for dialogue with biological paradigms concerned with change and diversity, and confronting us with the extraordinary plasticity of the highest human skills. KEYWORDS: Chomsky, coevolution, constituency, culture, dependency, evolutionary theory, Greenberg, linguistic diversity, linguistic typology, recursion, universal grammar http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Evans-08042008/Referees/ ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. 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If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Barbara Finlay - Editor Paul Bloom - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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