The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
György Gergely (CEU)
on
Psychological Essentialism: The Origins of Representing Artifact Kinds
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
‘Psychological Essentialism’ (Gelman 2003; Medin & Ortony, 1989) is
a doctrine in current-day cognitive developmental science according to
which – as a result of evolutionary adaptation - the human mind makes
the basic innate assumption that individuals of a given kind have hidden
essences with causal and rich inferential properties that determine the
existence of the members of that kind, their suface properties and
causal powers. The evolved essentialist interpretational and
representational stance about kinds and their members clearly serves
adaptive purposes in conceptual development, but it doesn’t depend on
essentialism being true in a metaphysical sense about natural kind
(Kripke/Putnam).
While many agree that natural kinds are conceptualized and represented
by young children in an essentialist manner from very early on, there is
a debate whether artifact kinds are also subject to an initial
essentialist construal or not. Kelemen & Carey (2007) propose that the
essentialist representation of artifact kinds in terms of derived
intentionality of the creator is a function of the child’s
construction of the Design Stance around 5 years, before which arifacts
are not represented in terms of an inherent kind-defining proper
function, but rather understood in terms of its context-dependent and
changing episodic functional uses. I shall present new evidence from a
series of object individuation studies demonstrating for the first time
that 10-month-old preverbal infants can be induced in ostensive
communicative contexts to assign the demonstrated functional use of a
novel artifact object as the essential function of the artifact kind
that the object is represented as a member of. Another important
implication of the present studies is that they challenge the earlier
proposal (Xu & Carey) that linguistic labeling is the ‘royal road’
for individuating sortal kind representations for referents. It is
argued that it is ostensive communicative reference (rather than naming
by verbal labels per se), which may trigger sortal kind assignment and
the interpretation of the demonstrated properties of deictically
identified particular referents as being enduring generic kind-relevant
properties that identify the referent kind.
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
October Program
7 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
David Mark Kovacs
Eotvos University, Budapest
Erasmus College, Budapest
Everything is One: In Defence of Multilocational Blobjectivism
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/October/#1
12 October (Monday!) 6:00 PM Room 226
(Please note the unusual day and time!)
Stewart Cohen
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasoning
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/October/#2
___________________________________
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/October/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
Kedves Kollégák!
November 11-én kerül megrendezésre a következő szimpózium bizottságunk
és az MPT szervezésében:
"Tehetség és kreativitás
Többet tudunk-e a pszichológiáról ma, mint Guilford idején?"
Várunk minden érdeklődőt sok szeretettel és kérlek, reklámozzátok a
kollégák, diákok között!
A programot csatoltam.
üdv.
Dezső
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SZTE Pszichológiai Intézet
Megismeréstudományi és Neuropszichológia Csoport
Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/
Megismeréstudományi Csoport: http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Pszichológiai Intézet: http://www.pszich.u-szeged.hu/**
*Hétfőn délben a Kognitív Tudományi Tanszéken...*
A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszéke az alábbi előadás házigazdája lesz
2009 október 5-én 12-től:
Navigáció és téri kogníció: bepillantás a neurális kódba.
Előadó: Somogyvári Zoltán, KFKI (RMKI Biofizikai Intézet)
A téma a hippokampusz illetve a környező kéregterületek komputációs
idegtudományi modellezése, ezen belül is a grid-sejtek működési modelljei.
Mindenkit szeretettel várunk,
Jakab Zoltán
BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék
Faculty position, Cognitive Science Program
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, invites
applications for an open-rank faculty position to extend its recently
established Cognitive Science Program. This new position can be taken
at Fall 2010. We are seeking candidates with a PhD in a relevant
discipline who have an already proven background of research
excellence that documents their potential to establish a strong and
independent research program in any area of cognitive sciences.
Preference will be given to researchers who link cognitive science to
one or more areas of the social sciences including, but not restricted
to, cognitive and evolutionary anthropology, behavioral economics,
social cognition and social psychology, cognitive linguistics,
communication and pragmatics, and computational modeling of social
cognitive processes. This is a research-focused position that involves
supervising and training graduate students but no undergraduate
teaching. The CEU offers a competitive salary, as well as a dynamic
and international academic environment.
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 and other emerging
democracies. CEU offers both master's and doctoral programs, and it
enrolls more than 1500 students from nearly 100 countries. The
teaching staff consists of more than 140 resident faculty from over 40
countries, and a large number of prominent visiting scholars from
around the world. The language of instruction is English.
The application deadline is November 30, 2009. Send your application,
including a research statement, a full CV, and contact information for
three referees, to job(a)ceu.hu and include job code "2009/021" in the
subject line. Informal inquiries about this position could be
addressed to Professor György GERGELY (gergelygy(a)ceu.hu) or to
Professor Gergely CSIBRA (csibrag(a)ceu.hu).
CEU is an equal opportunity employer.
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
István M. Fehér (ELTE)
on
Heidegger, Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Turn of 20th Century Philosophy
Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
Abstract
In my talk I first propose to reconstruct the outlines of what has been
called the hermeneutic turn of 20th century philosophy; then I will
focus on some inner or more technical details of this turn, now having
become accessible through recent volumes of Heidegger's Complete Works
(Gesamtausgabe). I propose to show some of the reasons why Heidegger is
often claimed to have given hermeneutics an ontological dimension or
inter¬pret¬ation–and, in particular, how in Heidegger's ontological
radicalization of hermeneutics the influence of Dilthey and Husserl
played a fundamental role. Finally, I will briefly follow up the
consequences of this hermeneutic turn, thereby sketching my own way of
conceiving hermeneutics as a philosophy of oppenness.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
FELHÍVÁS publikálási lehetőségre!
Tisztelt Érdeklődő!
Szeretnénk felhívni figyelmét a Világosság bölcsészeti-akadémiai folyóiratunk egy új fejlesztésére. Lapunk a 2009-es évben negyedéves referált folyóirattá válik, de szeptember végétől lehetőséget biztosítunk folyóiratunk témájához kapcsolódó írások honlapunkon (www.vilagossag.hu) történő on-line megjelentetésére is. A legjobb írásokat nyomtatott kiadványunkban is közöljük, amiről szerkesztőségünk dönt.
Amennyiben van olyan tanulmánya, recenziója, amit publikálásra szán, kérjük, küldje el szerkesztőségünk címere!
Várjuk jelentkezését a redactio(a)vilagossag.hu címen, illetve következő telefonszámunkon: 06 1 3730008.
Üdvözlettel:
Fábri György
főszerkesztő
Világosság bölcsészeti-akadémia folyóirat
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
!!!!! Please note that the seminars have been moved from Mondays 4PM to
Wednesdays 5PM !!!!!
30 September 5:00 PM Room 226
Tihamér Margitay
Department of Philosophy and the History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
A meghatározás meghatározása - Egy radikális kompatibilista
szabadságfelfogás
(Free Action as the Determination of Determination - An
Uncompromising Compatibilist Proposal)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/September/#5
___________________________________
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/September/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
István M. Fehér (ELTE)
on
Heidegger, Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Turn of 20th Century Philosophy
Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
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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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:24:35 -0400
From: Bernard Rentier <brentier -- ULG.AC.BE>
Reply-To: American Scientist Open Access Forum
<AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Subject: Launch of EOS
After a missed launch a few weeks ago, an organisation that will be of interest to all rectors and vice-rectors-for-research is now ready to take off.
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) LAUNCHES NEW ORGANISATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL DIRECTORS WORLDWIDE
Liege, Belgium
23 September 2009
ENABLING OPEN SCHOLARSHIP (EOS), a new organisation for senior management in universities and research institutions, has been launched today.
The context in which EOS has been established is that of increasing interest from governments, funders and the research community itself in opening up
the way research is carried out and communicated. This interest is complemented by new research practices and processes that can work effectively only
in an open, collaborative environment.
As we rapidly approach 100 formal, mandatory, policies on Open Access from universities, research institutes and research funders a group of senior
directors of universities and research institutes have come together to launch a new forum for the promotion of the principles and practices of open
scholarship.
The aim of Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) is to further the opening up of scholarship and research that we are now seeing as a natural part of big
science and through the growing interest from the research community in open access, open education, open science and open innovation. These, and
other, 'open' approaches to scholarship are changing the way research and learning are done and will be performed in the future.
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) provides the higher education and research sectors around the world with information on developments and with
advice and guidance on implementing policies and processes that encourage the opening up of scholarship. It also provides a forum for discussion and
debate amongst its members and will be taking that discussion into the wider community.
EOS membership is for senior institutional managers who have an interest in and wish to help develop thinking on strategies for promoting open
scholarship to the academy as a whole and to society at large.
The EOS website is a resource open to all. It provides background information, data and guidance material on open scholarship-related issues. In a
limited access area, members can find announcements, news and discussions.
EOS offers an outreach service to universities and research institutes whether members or not that need help, advice, guidance or information on
open scholarship issues. We do this through our website and also by providing information on an individual basis to institutions that need it.
The EOS board is composed of people who have personally designed or instigated the kinds of changes in their own institutions that herald the benefits
of the open scholarly communication system of the future. Now this expertise is available for others to tap into.
The current EOS board comprises:
Bernard RENTIER (Chairman), Rector of the University of Liege, Belgium
Tom COCHRANE, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
William DAR, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India
Stevan HARNAD, Canada Research Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec
Keith JEFFERY, Director of IT and International Strategy at the Science & Technology Facilities Council, Swindon, UK
Sijbolt NOORDA, President of VSNU, the Association of Dutch Research Universities
Stuart SHIEBER, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Harvard University and Director of Harvards Office of Scholarly Communication
Ian SIMPSON, Deputy Principal for Research and Knowledge Transfer, and Professor of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, UK
Peter SUBER, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
John WILLINSKY, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and director of the Public Knowledge Project at the University of
British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, USA
Alma SWAN (Convenor/Coordinateur), Director of Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK
The world of research is changing and universities and other research-based institutions must drive the change, not sit back and let it happen. Having
embarked upon implementing changes in thinking and practice at my own university, I want to encourage others in my position to join the discussion
and help lead the way to a better future, said Professor Bernard Rentier. We will be reaching out to universities and research institutes across the world
to invite them to play an active role in building better systems of scholarship for the future. EOS will provide the forum and the voice for the research
community on open scholarship issues and represents a very valuable resource for those who want to join in this endeavour.
The benefits of open access and open scholarship have been clearly demonstrated for individuals, institutions and the public, said Professor
Keith Jeffery. EOS will be there to provide information and guidance from those who have already had experience of making the changes needed.
Dr William Dar said, "Open scholarship benefits the whole world's science, not just that of the western world. It enables the free flow of research
information between north and south, east and west, helping research to progress much more effectively. EOS will be very valuable in advancing this
process and improving the way science is carried out across the globe".
For more information visit the Enabling Open Scholarship website at:
http://www.openscholarship.org
or contact the convenor:
Dr Alma Swan
+44 1392 879702
info(a)openscholarship.org