The Opening Conference of the Cognitive Development Center at CEU
Central European University, Budapest
January 15-16, 2010
The recently established Cognitive Development Center at CEU, led by
Professors Gergely Csibra and György Gergely, invites you to its
Opening Conference to be held in Budapest on January 15 and 16, 2010.
The speakers of the conference are:
- Susan Carey (Harvard)
- Mark Johnson (Birkbeck, London)
- Alan Leslie (Rutgers)
- Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
- Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)
- Mike Tomasello (MPI EVA, Leipzig)
and the hosts:
- Gergely Csibra (CEU)
- György Gergely (CEU)
Attendance is free but pre-registration is required. Registration will
open on October 15 at http://web.ceu.hu/phil/cogdev/cdc_opening_2010
There will be an opportunity to present a limited number of posters at
the conference. Intrested students are encouraged to submit an
abstract of maximum 250 words with their registration before November 1.
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Gergely Csibra
Central European University
Nádor u. 9.
1051 Budapest
Hungary
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
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TITLE: Grandparental Investment: Past, Present and Future
AUTHORS: David A. Coall & Ralph Hertwig
ABSTRACT: What motivates grandparents to their altruism? We review answers from
evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics. Sometimes in direct conflict with
each other, these accounts of grandparental investment exist side-by-side, with
little or no theoretical integration. They all account for some of the data, and
none for all of that. We call for a more comprehensive theoretical framework of
grandparental investment that addresses its proximate and ultimate causes, its
variability due to lineage, values, norms, institutions (e.g., inheritance laws),
and social welfare regimes, and that takes into account that the demographic shift
to low fecundity and mortality in economically developed countries has profoundly
altered basic parameters of grandparental investment. We then turn to the possible
impact of grandparental acts of altruism, and examine whether benefits of
grandparental care in industrialized societies may manifest in terms of less
tangible dimensions such as the grandchildrens cognitive and verbal ability,
mental health and well-being. Although grandparents in industrialized societies
continue to invest substantial amounts of time and money in their grandchildren, we
find a paucity of studies investigating the influence that this investment has on
grandchildren in low-risk family contexts. Under circumstances of duressfor
instance, teenage pregnancy, maternal depressionthere is converging evidence that
grandparents can provide support that helps to safeguard their children and
grandchildren against adverse risks. We conclude by discussing the role that
grandparents could play in what has been referred to as Europes demographic
suicide.
KEYWORDS: child development; demographic transition; empathy; grandmother
hypothesis; grandparental investment; grandparental solicitude; intergenerational
transfers; kin altruism; maternal depression; reciprocal altruism.
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Csatoltam az őszi Szegedi Megismeréstudományi és Neuropszichológia
programot.
Minden érdeklődőt várunk szeretettel!
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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 the change in day and time !!!!!
September Program
23 September 5:00 PM Room 226
Geier János
Stereo Vision Ltd., Budapest
Szemantikai értékrés Cantor édenkertjének égboltján – avagy mi az, amit
megmentett Hilbert?
(Semantic value gap on the firmament of Cantor’s paradise – What has
Hilbert managed to save?)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/September/#4
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
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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/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)
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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
Logic, Language, Mathematics
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
Budapest, September 17-19, 2009
Venue: Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Philosophy
Budapest VIII., Múzeum krt. 4. bld. "i"
More information: http://phil.elte.hu/ruzsaconf
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SCHEDULE
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Thursday, September 17
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Opening Session
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11:00-11:30
Opening
11:30-12:30
In Memory of Imre Ruzsa
An Overview on his Life and Work
András Máté - Tamás Mihálydeák
Plenary Lectures
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14:00-14:50
Natural Logic, Medieval Logic and Formal Semantics
Gyula Klíma
15:00-15:50
Whose Logic is Three-valued Logic?
Ferenc Csaba
16:00-16:50
Modal Constructions in Sociological Arguments
László Pólos
Keynote Lecture
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17:30-19:00
Quantifiers and Admissible Propositions
Robert Goldblatt
Friday, September 18
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
Analogy in Semantics
László Kálmán
10:00-10:50
Certain Verbs Are Syntactically Explicit Quantifiers
Anna Szabolcsi
11:00-11:50
The Treatment of Ordinary Quantification in English Proper
András Kornai
13:30-14:20
Exporting Methods from the Foundation of Mathematics to the Foundation
of Relativity Theory
Hajnal Andréka and István Németi
English Session 1
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14:30-15:00
Logic and Language of Relativity Theories
Gergely Székely
15:00-15:30
Visualizations of Relativity, Relativistic Hypercomputing
Renáta Tordai
15:30-16:00
Comparing Relativistic and Newtonian Dynamics in First Order Logic
Judit X. Madarász
16:00-16:30
On Field's Nominalization of Physical Theories
Máté Szabó
English Session 2
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16:45-17:15
Plural Grundgesetze
Francesca Boccuni
17:15-17:45
The Reference of Numerals in Frege
Edward Kanterian
17:45-18:15
Grasping the Conceptual Difference between János Bolyai's and
Lobachevskii's Notions of Non-Euclidean Parallelism
János Tanács
Hungarian Session 1
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14:30-15:00
A matematikai tudás eukleidészi modelljének kritikája Lakatos Imre
filozófiájában
Golden Dániel
15:00-15:30
Tarski és a deflácionizmus
Kocsis László
15:30-16:00
Szemantikai értékrés Cantor mennyországának égboltján - avagy mi az,
amit megmentett Hilbert?
Geier János
16:00-16:30
Kontextuális kétdimenziós szemantika
Kovács János
Hungarian Session 2
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16:45-17:15
A logika iskolai tanulásának első lépései
Kiss Olga - Munkácsy Katalin
17:15-17:45
Az empirikus tudományok teoretizálási törekvéseiről
Madaras Lászlóné
17:45-18:15
Kísérlet a tulajdonnevek vizsgálatára a különböző hipertextnarratívák
esetében
Szopos András
Reception
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19:00 -
Cogito ceremony
(Kossuth Klub, Muzeum u. 7)
Saturday, September 19
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
In Defense of Hermeneutic Fictionalism
Gábor Forrai
10:00-10:50
Relativity and Modal Logic
Robin Hirsch
11:00-11:50
Tasks and Ultra-tasks
Zoltán Szabó Gendler
12:00-12:50
Neo-Fregeanism: Revising Frege's Notion of Identity in the Philosophy of
Language and Mathematics
Mihály Makkai
14:00-14:50
Many-Dimensional Modal Logics
Ági Kurucz
English Session 3
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15:00-15:30
Prior and the Limits of \emph{de Re Temporal Possibility
Márta Ujvári
15:30-16:00
The Indispensability of Logic
Nenad Miscevic
16:00-16:30
Fitch's Paradox and Natural Deduction System for Modal Logic
Edi Pavlovic
English Session 4
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16:45-17:15
Premise Semantics and Possible Worlds Semantics for Counterfactuals
Vladan Djordjevic
17:15-17:45
Counterfactuals, Context, and Knowledge
Jelena Ostojic
17:45-18:15
Aristotle's Wheel and Galileo's Mistake
Nenad Filipovic, Una Stojnic \& Vladan Djordjevic
English Session 5
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15:00-15:30
On the So-Called Dependent (Embedded) Questions
Anna Brozek
15:30-16:00
Partiality and Tichys Transparent Intensional Logic: Solutions to
Selected Issues
Jiri Raclavsky
16:00-16:30
Names are Not Rigid
Hanoch Ben-Yami
English Session 6
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16:45-17:15
'Upgrades' and 'Updates': from Degrees of Belief to the Dynamics of
Epistemic Logic
András Benedek
17:15-17:45
Ruzsa on Quine's Argument against Modal Logic
Zsófia Zvolenszky
17:45-18:15
Definite Descriptions in Dynamic Predicate Logic
Péter Mekis
MEGHÍVÓ
Az Erasmus Kollégium Nyelv - nyelvfilozófia - nyelvi ismeretterjesztés
kutatócsoportja szeretettel várja Önt
"Semmi nincs úgy 2."
című
nyilvános konferenciájára.
Időpont: Szeptember 8., kedd, 10-1730
Helyszín: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet (Bp., VI., Benczúr u. 33.),
földszinti előadóterem
"Semmi nincs úgy 2."
1. ... a kognitív pszichológiában
10:00 - 10:15 Csibra Gergely: A szavak természete csecsemőkorban:
asszociációs vagy referenciális jelek?
10:15 - 10:25 vita
10:25 - 10:40 Takács Boglárka: Nem az, aminek látszik
10:40 - 10:50 vita
10:50 - 11:00 kávészünet
2. ... a nyelvfilozófiában
11:00 - 11:15 Somodi Gergő: Metafora és perlokúció
11:15 - 11:25 vita - vitaindító: Pete Krisztián
11:25 - 11:40 Pete Krisztián: A "what is said" pragmatikai dimenziói
11:40 - 11:50 vita - vitaindító: Somodi Gergő
11:50 - 12:05 Forrai Gábor: Matematika mint metafora
12:05 - 12:15 vita - vitaindító: Márton Miklós
12:15 - 12:30 szünet
12:30 - 12:45 Bárány Tibor: Az intenzionalitás mint az intencionalitás
elégséges feltétele
12:45 - 12:55 vita - vitaindító: Gyarmathy Zsófia
12:55 - 13:10 Zvolenszky Zsófia: A szükségszerűség ezer arca
13:10 - 13:20 vita - vitaindító: Bárány Tibor
13:20 - 14:40 ebédszünet
3. ... a sumer nyelvben
14:40 - 14:55 Sövegjártó Szilvia: A sumer allatív poliszémia
14:55 - 15:05 vita - vitaindító: Zólyomi Gábor
15:05 - 15:20 Tanos Bálint: Teljes igei reduplikáció és igei
pluralitás a sumerben történeti-tipológiai megközelítésben
15:20 - 15:30 vita - vitaindító: Zólyomi Gábor
15:30 - 15:45 Zólyomi Gábor: Biklauzális létigés szerkezetek a sumerben
15:45 - 15:55 vita - vitaindító: Sövegjártó Szilvia
15:55 - 16:10 kávészünet
4. ... a nyelvtudományban
16:10 - 16:25 Molnár Cecília Sarolta: Hogyhogy hogyhogy?
16:25 - 16:35 vita - vitaindító: Kálmán László
16:35 - 16:50 Kálmán László: Analógia és szemantika
16:50 - 17:00 vita - vitaindító: Molnár Cecília Sarolta
17:00 - 17:15 Komlósi Boglárka: Az iróniakutatás elméleti dilemmái a
pragmatikában
17:15 - 17:25 vita - vitaindító: Molnár Cecília Sarolta