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
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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
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.
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Gergely Csibra
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
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
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
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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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
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