koglist March 2010

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E.J.Lowe on`What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths?`March 23rd,4.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Edward Jonathan Lowe(Durham University) on What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths? Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, April

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest April Program 7 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Judit X. Madarász Department of Logic, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Egy, a relativitáselméletre vonatkozó teljességi tétel (A completeness theorem for general relativity) 14 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Theodor Ebert Philosophy, University of Erlangen What is a perfect syllogism in Aristotelian syllogistic? 21 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Marcell Kolos Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest Az ifjú Nietzsche ismeretelmélete (Early Nietzsche's epistemology) 28 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Hanoch Ben-Yami Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest Causal Order, Temporal Order, and Becoming in Special Relativity ___________________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: László E. Szabó (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

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E.J.Lowe`s abstract has arrived !!

by Krisztina Biber

Dear All, I`ve just received the abstract from Professor Lowe so I`m re-sending the invitation Best Kriszta The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Edward Jonathan Lowe(Durham University) on What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths? Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT There is currently intense interest in the question of the source of our presumed knowledge of modal truths — where by ‘modal truths’ I mean, more specifically, truths concerning what is, or is not, metaphysically possible or necessary. Some philosophers try to locate this source in our capacities to conceive or imagine various actual or non-actual states of affairs, but this approach is open to certain familiar and seemingly powerful objections. A different and ostensibly more promising approach has been developed recently by Timothy Williamson, according to which our capacity for modal knowledge is just an extension, or by-product, of our general capacity to acquire knowledge of true counterfactual conditionals — a capacity that we deploy ubiquitously in everyday life. Williamson’s theory crucially involves a thesis to the effect that modal truths can be analysed or defined in terms of counterfactual truths. In this paper, I shall query Williamson’s account on a number of points, including this thesis. I have in fact for a long time defended the very reverse of this thesis, namely, that counterfactual truths are instead to be defined in terms of modal truths. If modal truths are thus prior to counterfactual truths, it seems hopeless to pursue Williamson’s proposal, and we need an alternative one. And we do in any case, I shall argue, since there are defects in Williamson’s proposal which do not turn on the foregoing point. My own positive proposal, which owes an intellectual debt to the work of Kit Fine on modality and essence, appeals instead to our capacity to grasp essences — where essences are understood not in the currently prevailing fashion, made famous by the work of Saul Kripke, according to which all talk of essences may be explicated in terms of the language of ‘possible worlds’, but rather in a neo-Aristotelian fashion, according to which essences are expressed by ‘real definitions’.

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Kognitív péntek: március 26.

by Rago Anett

Tisztlet Kollégák, ezúton továbbítom az ELTE Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszékének meghívóját a 'Kognitív péntek' elnevezésű előadássorozat következő, jövő pénteki rendezvényére, melynek programja: Borbély Csaba „Neuropszichológiai feladatok és módszerek az epilepsziás betegek műtéti kivizsgálásában” az előadás időpontja: Március 26. 15 óra helye: ELTE Pszichológia Intézet, Izabella u. 46. 216. terem Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk! -- Ragó, Anett rago(a)cogpsyphy.hu INSTITUTE for PSYCHOLOGY Hungarian Academy of Sciences H- 1068 Budapest, Szondi utca 83-85 36/1-3542390 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4956 (20100318) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Adam Majdanyi

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 24 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Adam Majdanyi Institute of Philosophy Eotvos University, Budapest A fenomenalis tudatossag intencionalista magyarazatanak vedelme (In defence of an intentionalist theory of consciousness) Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/March/#4 ___________________________________ 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/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 Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

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The 3rd Philosophy Graduate Conference at CEU - March 20-21, 2010

by Krisztina Biber

Dear All, You are cordially invited to the 3rd Philosophy Graduate Conference at CEU on March 20-21, 2010 Please find attached the program and you can also find some additional information at the conference web page: http://web.ceu.hu/phil/gradconf/program2010.html Best Kriszta 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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invitation: Jonathan Barnes on `Zeno the Stoic on the nature of the soul`- Thursday,18 March,5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department and The Center for Hellenic Traditions cordially invite you to a talk (as part of the Philosophy Department’s Colloquium series) by Jonathan Barnes on Zeno the Stoic on the nature of the soul THURSDAY!!!18 March, 2010, 5.30 PM!!! Zrinyi 14, Room 412

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Neuroimaging Workshop - Szeged

by Dezso NEMETH

Kedves Kollégák! Sok szeretettel meghívunk mindenkit a Neuroimaging Workshopra. Időpont: március 19-20 (péntek, szombat) Helyszín: Szeged, Somogyi B. utca 7. SZAB székház Program: http://www.nepsy.szote.u-szeged.hu/~neuroimaging/workshop/Meghivo.html <http://www.nepsy.szote.u-szeged.hu/%7Eneuroimaging/workshop/Meghivo.html> üdv. Dezső -------------------------------------------------------- Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Group Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Hungary Web: http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/english Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com

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Fwd: CDC Seminar reminder seminar March 17

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Agnes Kovacs" <agneskovacs(a)mtapi.hu> > Date: 16 March 2010 10:09:32 pm GMT+01:00 > To: biberk(a)ceu.hu > > Subject: CDC Seminar reminder seminar March 17 > > > The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at > the CEU will be given by: > > Olivier Morin > Institut Jean-Nicod > > Title: > Mechanisms of cultural transmission : beyond social learning > > Date and time: > Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 5.00 pm > > Abstract > What makes traditions survive? What makes some technologies, songs or > social norms spread in populations and stand the test of time ? While > neglected by mainstream anthropologists, this issue has been of > increasing interest to psychologists and biologists. They tend to > emphasize the importance of mechanisms of social learning like > imitation or teaching. These mechanisms, I argue, cannot tell us the > whole story of cultural transmission. They tell us how a cultural > practice can be passed on from one individual from another, during > your typical episode of cultural transmission, but not why such > transmission episodes multiply and eventually result in the diffusion > of a tradition through a long transmission chain. In other words, > social learning mechanisms explain transmission, not diffusion. > > It is my contention that mechanisms of transmission and mechanisms of > diffusion are distinct to a certain extent. At small scales of space > and time - like when you are trying to get a message across a building > in three steps - the two kinds of mechanisms are so completely > overlapping that the distinction is useless. Your message will most > probably make it across the building if you managed to communicate it, > and it most probably won't, if you didn't. Only when you consider > greater scales - nations, centuries - does the distinction become > relevant. My model helps make sense of a set of data regarding a long- > studied phenomenon : the bafflingly long life-span of children's > playground rhymes and games, as compared to similar adult practices. > Consequences will be drawn regarding the interplay between the > evolution of our capacity for communication and the emergence of > culture. > > CEU Cognitive Development Center > Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest > > Map: > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1015+Budapest,+Budapest,+Hattyu+utca+14,+Hung… > > Everyone is welcome to attend. > > Our seminars start on time and we may not be able to let latecomers > in. > > -- > Ágnes M. Kovács > > Marie Curie Research Fellow-DISCOS > MTA PKI > Hungarian Academy of Sciences > & > CEU, Cognitive Development Centre > Budapest > Hungary > > tel: +3612796095 > >

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Szilvia Rati

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 17 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Szilvia Rati Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eotvos University, Budapest A genek es az a priori (Genes and the a priori) Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/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/2009-2010/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 Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

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