The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Miloš Arsenijević (University of Belgrade)
on
Avoiding logical determinism and retaining the principle of bivalence
within a tense-modal logic system
Tuesday, 5 October, 2010, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Jan Lukasiewicz was the first logician in the history of modern logic
who has become completely aware of the fact that Aristotle’s reasoning
related to his famous future see battle example does not undermine so
much the principle of the excluded middle but, in the first place, the
principle of bivalence.. In order to avoid such a kind of determinism,
later called logical determinism, Lukasiewicz introduced many-valued
logic. So, in the trivalent system, a sentence can happen to be neither
true nor false at a given time. It is so if, at that time, there is
nothing in reality that makes it true or false. Its truth value is
indeterminate.
I shall show how, by using the possible world semantics of contemporary
modal logic, it is possible to avoid logical determinism and, at the
same time, retain the principle of bivalence.
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, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
October Program
6 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Zalán Gyenis* (speaker) and Miklós Rédei**
* Mathematics, CEU, Budapest
** Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, London
Közös ok-zárt valószínűségi terek karakterizációja
(Characterization of common cause closed probability spaces)
13 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Institute for Communication and Cultural Studies
King Sigismund College, Budapest
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest
Common causal explanations and the Bell inequalities
20 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Hanoch Ben-Yami
Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
How to Bind Donkeys: On Conditional Donkey Anaphora
27 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Márton Gömöri
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest
Létezik-e klasszikus leírása a ,,töltött részecskék + elektromágneses mező”
csatolt rendszernek?
(Is there a classical description of the coupled system of "charged particles
+ electromagnetic field"?)
___________________________________
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
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
29 September (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gábor Etesi
Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kvantum algoritmusok és a kvantum-számítógépek számítási kapacitása
(Quantum algorithms and the computational capacities of quantum
computers)
___________________________________
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
Tisztelt Kollégák,
ezúton továbbítom az ELTE Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszékének meghívóját
a 'Kognitív péntek' elnevezésű előadássorozat e félévi első, pénteki
rendezvényére,
melynek programja új munkatársaink bemutatkozása:
Linnert Szilvia: „Mikor látjuk a láthatatlant? - Kanizsa ábrák
észlelésének elektrofiziológiai vizsgálata”
Garami Linda: "Beszédértés fejlődése csecsemőkorban"
Nagy Márton: "Az emlékezeti tudatosság mérése"
az előadás időpontja: Október 1. 14 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
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The CEU Philosophy department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Christophe Heintz (CEU)
on
"Inference to convincing explanation"
4.30 PM, Tuesday, 28 September, 14. Zrinyi str. / room 412
Abstract:
I will use the argumentative theory of reasoning to clarify why and
how some inferences are guided by the goal of explaining. Lipton
(2005) nicely shows that abductive reasonning is central in the
sciences. However, he characterises abductions as inferences to the
best explanation and through their semantic and epistemological
properties rather than by specifying their psychological underpinning.
I will show that the argumentative theory of reasoning provides a
means to understand which psychological processes philosophers of
science have referred to when talking about abduction. This will lead
me to claim that abductions are in fact inferences to convincing
explanation. With this psychological characterisation, one is better
able to specify the semantic and epistemic properties of a key
inference at work in scientific reasoning.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Development Center seminar series
will be given by
Judit Gervain
Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyú u. 14, Budapest, 3rd floor
Learning Structural Regularities at Birth: An Optical Imaging Study
The ability to learn structural regularities is fundamental for the
acquisition of language. There is increasing evidence that older
infants are able to learn such regularities using different mechanisms
(Marcus et al. 1999, Gomez and Gerken 1999). However, it is not know
whether these abilities are available at birth or whether they emerge
later during development and their neural basis is also unexplored.
Therefore, in a series of NIRS studies with newborns, we examined
whether they are able to learn identity-based regularities (e.g. ABB
"mubaba", AAB "babamu", ABA "bamuba" etc.). Specifically, we explored
whether (i) they are able to discriminate these patterns from random
ABC controls (e.g. "mubage"), (ii) whether they are able to encode the
identity relation as well as its serial position (i.e. whether they
are able to discriminate AAB from ABB) and (iii) whether this ability
is specific to speech stimuli or whether it applies more broadly to
other auditory stimuli, e.g. piano tones. The results of these
experiments allow us to better understand the mechanisms and the
corresponding neural circuits underlying early speech perception and
language acquisition.
_______________________________________________
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
September Program
29 September (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gábor Etesi
Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kvantum algoritmusok és a kvantum-számítógépek számítási kapacitása
(Quantum algorithms and the computational capacities of quantum
computers)
___________________________________
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
The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Development Center seminar series will be
given by
Dr. Judith Gervain
Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyú u. 14, Budapest, 3rd floor
Learning Structural Regularities at Birth: An Optical Imaging Study
The ability to learn structural regularities is fundamental for the
acquisition of language. There is increasing evidence that older infants are
able to learn such regularities using different mechanisms (Marcus et al.
1999, Gomez and Gerken 1999). However, it is not know whether these
abilities are available at birth or whether they emerge later during
development and their neural basis is also unexplored. Therefore, in a
series of NIRS studies with newborns, we examined whether they are able to
learn identity-based regularities (e.g. ABB "mubaba", AAB "babamu", ABA
"bamuba" etc.). Specifically, we explored whether (i) they are able to
discriminate these patterns from random ABC controls (e.g. "mubage"), (ii)
whether they are able to encode the identity relation as well as its serial
position (i.e. whether they are able to discriminate AAB from ABB) and (iii)
whether this ability is specific to speech stimuli or whether it applies
more broadly to other auditory stimuli, e.g. piano tones. The results of
these experiments allow us to better understand the mechanisms and the
corresponding neural circuits underlying early speech perception and
language acquisition.
_______________________________________________
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The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Development Center seminar series will be
given by
Dr. Tania Singer
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Date: FRIDAY, September 17, 2010, *3 PM* (NOTE: this talk will not be held
at the usual date and time!)
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyú u. 14, Budapest, 3rd floor
Title: Understanding Others: Developmental and Neuronal Basis of Social
Emotions and Egocentricity Bias
With the emergence of social neuroscience, researchers have started to
investigate the underpinnings of our ability to share and understand the
feelings and minds of others. After defining relevant concepts, I will give
a short overview about fMRI studies investigating empathic brain responses
elicited by the observation of others in pain and show how these empathic
brain responses are modulated by several contextual, stimulus intrinsic and
person-specific factors. The important role of anterior insula cortex for
empathy and interoceptive awareness will be highlighted. In addition, a series
of behavioral, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and repetitive
transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) experiments will be presented which
focus on the investigation of emotional egocentricity bias and the ability
for self-other distinction. Finally, several studies will be presented on
the development of social emotions, behavioral control and egocentricity
bias.
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MEGHIVÓ
A Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science (BSCS) es az ELTE Tudománytörténeti es Tudományfilozofia Tanszéke szeretettel meghiv minden erdeklődöt
Professor Robert Batsell (Kalamazoo College, Michigan) eloadasara:
Liberal Arts Education and the Unique Role of Colleges
Ideje: 2010 szeptember 13, hétfő 15:00-16:00 Helye: ELTE TTK (XI., Pazmany Peter setany 1/A), Kari Tanacsterem, Északi Tömb 7.22.
Üdvőzlettel:
Kampis György egyetemi tanár, tanszékvezető
Érdi Péter tudományos tanácsadó, Henry R. Luce Professor
a BSCS igazgatói