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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: March 14. Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences?

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Anna Babarczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics on Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences? Date: Wed, March 14, 2012 - 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15 Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences? ABSTRACT: The question of learning the meaning of abstract language (roughly, expressions with no perceptible referents) has been bugging philosophers for thousands of years. More recently, a number of experimental paradigms have emerged trying to shed light on this issue. The basic idea explored in the talk is that people understand abstract (metaphorical) expressions by linking them to sensory or bodily experiences. If this is the case, we should be able to show that these experiences affect people’s interpretation of abstract utterances. The talk looks at the evidence we have so far (pro and contra).We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) ! _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

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[koglist] Meghivo Hans Radder eloadasaira

by Laszlo Ropolyi

Tisztelt kollegak! AZ ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszekenek vendegekent ket eloadast tart a kozeljovoben Budapesten Hans Radder tudomany es technikafilozofus az amszterdami Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte tanara http://www.ph.vu.nl/nl/organisatie/medewerkers/medewerkers-m-s/prof-dr-h-ra… Az eloadasokon minden erdeklodot orommel latunk! ------------------------------ Az elso eloadasra 2012 aprilis 2-án, hetfon delutan 6 orakor az ELTE TTK Lagymanyosi kampuszanak Deli Tombjeben, a 0.827-es termeben (Budapest, 1117 Pazmany setany 1/c, foldszint) kerul sor "Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research" cimmel. Az eloadas kivonata: Since the 1980s the commodification of academic science has strongly increased. To be sure, science at large has always included research primarily carried out for its economic benefit, especially since the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet, the large-scale commodification of academic science is a more recent phenomenon. In the course of the past decade, this phenomenon has been explored and a variety of studies have become available. Assessments of the rise of entrepreneurial academia differ sharply. On the one hand, it is welcomed and sometimes even seen as a necessary step in the history of academic institutions (e.g., Gibbons et al. 1994; Etzkowitz 2004). On the other hand, the problematic consequences of commodified academic science are also widely discussed and increasingly acknowledged (Shulman 1999; Bok 2003; Krimsky 2003; Healy 2006; Resnik 2007; Radder 2010). In response to these problems, universities, research institutes and science policy organizations have composed a variety of normative codes of good scientific conduct (Kourany 2007). Almost invariably, these codes are based on, or derived from, the social ethos of science formulated by Robert K. Merton in 1942. The aim of this paper is to find out to what extent a Mertonian ethos can still be useful in the present context of a strongly commodified science. The discussion will be focused on the issue of the patenting of the results of academic research. The plan of the paper is as follows. First, I briefly review Merton.s account of the ethos of science. The next section deals with some STS criticisms of this account and it suggests a reinterpretation in terms of general Mertonian values and more specific scientific norms. I then discuss the important issue of the patenting of the results of academic research and I demonstrate the significance of a .deflationary neo-Mertonian approach. to this issue. My conclusion is that the recent practices of public universities stand unjustified. The final section addresses some questions regarding the scope and implications of this neo-Mertonian critique of commodified science. -------------------------- A masodik eloadasra 2012 aprilis 4-en, szerdan delutan 5 orakor az ELTE BTK "Theoretical Philosophy Forum" kereteben a BTK Trefort kerti kampuszanak i epuleteben, a 226-os teremben (Budapest, 1088 Muzeum krt. 4/i) kerul sor "Does the Brain 'Initiate' Freely Willed Processes? A Critique of Libet-Type Experiments and Their Interpretation" cimmel. Az eloadas kivonata: In the extensive, recent debates on free will, the pioneering experiments by Benjamin Libet continue to play a significant role. The claim that these experiments demonstrate the illusoriness of freely willed actions is both strongly endorsed and hotly disputed. In this paper, we provide an analysis and evaluation of Libet.s experiments from a philosophy of science perspective, which differs from the usual approaches in philosophy of mind or moral philosophy. Our analysis focuses on Libet.s central notion of the .initiation. of freely willed processes by the brain. First, we use the INUS theory and the manipulability theory of causation to investigate whether the experiments show any causal relationship between brain activity, on the one hand, and free decisions or (freely willed) motor activity, on the other. In addition, we examine three other interpretations of the notion of initiation (in terms of a necessary condition, a correlation and a regular succession). We argue that none of these four interpretations can be supported by the design and results of Libet.s experiments. Significantly enough, on the basis of these experiments we cannot even conclude that each free decision, or each (freely willed) motor action, is always preceded by a readiness potential. Furthermore, more recent Libet-type experiments cannot solve these problems either. Our general conclusion is that neither Libet.s nor Libet-type experiments can justify the claim that the brain initiates freely willed processes. Az eloadasokon valo talalkozas remenyeben udvozlettel: Ropolyi Laszlo ELTE Tudtort. Tudfil Tsz.

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Hans Radder

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 4 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Hans Radder Faculty of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam Does the Brain ‘Initiate’ Freely Willed Processes? A Critique of Libet-Type Experiments and Their Interpretation ___________________________________ 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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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] ANNOUNCEMENT: CDC Seminar, É. Kiss Katalin, Wednesday, April 4, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Katalin É. Kiss, Mátyás Gerőcs, Tamás Zétényi, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy - BME Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early to ensure you get a seat! The talk will begin promptly at 5. *The linguistic roots of multiplication * Abstract: It is a well-established fact, confirmed by various experiments, that preschoolers, human infants, and even non-human primates can perform intuitive addition and subtraction. Much less evidence has been put forth testifying that children are capable of multiplicative operations on sets before receiving formal training. What makes evidence of intuitive multiplication hard to obtain is that in the visual and auditive domains multiplication is usually indistinguishable from repeated addition. Our talk will claim that multiplication operations are routinely performed by children prior to schooling; they are encoded by syntactic means in such doubly quantified sentences as the Hungarian *Három maci is két autóval játszik *’Three teddy bears (each) are playing with two cars’, and their English equivalents (cf. Musolino 2009). We will report on three experiments testing Hungarian preschoolers’ strategies of interpreting such sentences, and will show that, given certain syntactic and pragmatic clues, children interpret the two numerically modified expressions as a multiplier and a multiplicand, and also compute the product of multiplication, presumably relying on their approximate number system. Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

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[koglist] reminder: Invitation to CEU's 4th International Philosophy Graduate Conference - 30-31 March

by Krisztina Biber

Dear All, You are cordially invited to our 4th International Philosophy Graduate Conference to be held this Friday and Saturday (30-31 March) at the Philosophy Department of CEU (Room 412, 14 Zrínyi St.) The conference concerns two rich topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy: the self and agency. Keynote speaker: Lucy O'Brien (University College London) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/lob.html For our detailed programme, see http://philosophy.ceu.hu/gradconf/program Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CEUs-4th-International-Philosophy-Graduate-C… We look forward to seeing you there. Kind Regards, The Organisers

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[koglist] Meghívó - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat / Invitation - BME Cognitive Seminar Series

by Attila Keresztes

We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME Cognitive Seminar Series: Date & Time: April 2, Monday, 12:00-13:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *Age-related changes in different forms of implicit learning: Is there a critical period?* *Ágnes Lukács, Ferenc Kemény* Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Abstract It is a general view that skills like playing a musical instrument, mastering sports or a language are best acquired if learning starts early in childhood, and some have even proposed the existence of critical periods for learning such skills. The learning of such complex motor, cognitive and social skills is generally associated implicit statistical learning, defined as learning that takes place incidentally, without conscious intent to learn, and without explicit knowledge of the acquired representations. The study to be presented focuses on tracking age-related changes in different forms of implicit learning between 7 and 80 years using 3 paradigms: 1) the Serial Reaction Time Task (SRT) testing the learning of motor sequences, 2) Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) testing the extraction of regularities from auditory sequences 3) and Probabilistic Category Learning in the Weather prediction task (PCL-WP), a non-sequential categorization task. Although these three tasks are standard paradigms of IL that have been extensively used in typical populations and in neuropsychological studies, systematic developmental tracking of performance throughout the lifespan are missing. Revisiting the issue of critical periods, the paper aims to take a step towards filling this gap. -- Attila Keresztes Junior Research Fellow Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. of Cognitive Science, Egry József u. 1, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel: +36 1 4633525

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[koglist] Turing Memorial Summer Institute on Evolution and Function of Consciousness

by Stevan Harnad

Summer Institute June 29 - July 11 on: The Evolution and Function of Consciousness http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php?lang_id=2 Among the 54 lecturers: Dennett, Damasio, Searle, Ledoux, Edelman, Baron-Cohen...) In Commemoration of the Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing Theme: When, where, how and why - since the origin of life on Earth about 4 billion years ago - did organisms' input/output functions become conscious input/output functions? What is the causal role of consciousness? Registration is open Scholarships are available Posters submissions are open (and a requirement for scholarships) Place: Montreal, Canada (Institute of Cognitive Sciences, UQaM) Dates: June 29 to July 11, 2012 (followed by an optional 2-day practical workshop on imaging techniques for measuring consciousness July 10-11) The Institute is intended for: Graduate and post-graduate students from the participating disciplines: cognitive science, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, psychology, philosophy Faculty, scholars, engineers, and professionals from interested disciplines. Themes: Felt Function Turing Testing Know-how High-Level Know-How What's Feeling for? Feelings and Firing Doing Things Because You Feel Like It Consciousness and Causality Evolutionary Advantages of Felt Functions Measuring Consciousness (Satellite Workshop on Measuring Consciousness) OPENING LECTURES: DAN DENNETT - A Phenomenal Confusion About Access and Consciousness ANTONIO DAMASIO - Feelings and Sentience JACK COPELAND - Alan Turing: Code Breaker and AI Pioneer MARK MITTON - (Surprise) CLOSING LECTURE: JOHN SEARLE - Consciousness and Causality CAMPBELL, JOHN - What does Visual Experience Have to do with Visual Science? JOSEPH LEDOUX - The Perplexing Relationship Between Emotions and Consciousness WOLF SINGER - Consciousness: Unity in Time Rather Than Space? DAVID ROSENTHAL - Does Consciousness Have any Utility? STEVAN HARNAD - How and Why the Problem of Explaining the Causal Role of Consciousness is Hard JORGE ARMONY - Neural Bases of Emotion INMAN HARVEY - No Hard Feeling Why Would An Evolved Robot Care? AXEL CLEERMANS - Consciousness and Learning PATRICK HAGGARD - Volition and Agency: What is it, and What is it For? ERIK COOK - Are Neural Fluctuations in Cortex Causally Linked to Visual Perception? GREGORY DUDEK - Autonomous Robotics FERNANDO CERVERO - Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pain DAVID FREEDMAN - Brain Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision-Making BJORN BREMBS - Behavoral Freedom and Decision- Making in Flies: Evolutionary precursor of "Free Will"? BJORN MERKER - The Brain's Need for Sensory Consciousness: From Probabilities to Estimates SHIMON EDELMAN - Being in Time DARIO FLOREANO - Evolution of Adaptive Behavior in Autonomous Robots PHILLIP JACKSON - The Brain Response to the Pain of Others: Fleeing Versus Caring JULIO MARTINEZ - Voluntary Attention and Working Memory in The Primate Bain: Recording from Single Cells BERNARD BAARS - Psycho-Biological Risks/Benefits of Consciousness MICHAEL GRAZIANO - Consciousness and the Attention Schema CHRISTOPHER PACK - Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Primate Cortex WAYNE SOSSIN - Aplysia: If we Understand the Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Sensation and Learning, What Do we Need Consciousness for? ROY BAUMEISTER - The Why, What and How of Consciousness KARIM NADER - Fear and Motivational Memory CATHERINE TALLON-BAUDRY - Is Consciousness an Executive Function? DAVID EDELMAN - Studying Consciousness in Cephalopods MICHAEL SHADLEN - Consciousness as a Decision to Engage BARBARA FINLAY - Continuities/Discontinuities in Vertebrate Brain Evolution and Cognitive Capacities: Implications for Concsiousness ? SIMON BARON-COHEN - Mind Reading ALAIN PTITO - Neural Mechanisms of Blindsight after Hemispherectomy: Tapping into the Unconscious ALFRED MELE - Do Conscious Decisions Ever Play a Role in Action Production STEFANO MANCUSO - Evolution of Plant Intelligence GUALTIERO PICCININI - Is Consciousness a Spandrel? AMIR SHMUEL - Functional Neuro-Imaging: Neuroshysiological Mechanisms of Hemodynamic GARY COMSTOCK - Feeling Matters HAKWAN LAU - Volition and the Function of Consciousness DAVID JACOBS - Evolution of Sense Organs LUIZ PESSOA - Cognitive-Emotional Interactions GILLES PLOURDE - General Anesthetics for the Study Consciousness EZEQUIEL MORSELLA - The Primary Function of Consciousness in the Brain MARK BALAGUER - A Scientifically Reputable Version of Indeterministic Libertarian Free Will AMIR RAZ - Hypnosis as Experimental Tool to Study Metacognition, Causality and Volition MALCOLM MACIVER - Sensory and Motor Spaces and the Emergence of Multiple Futures JENNIFER MATHER - Evolutionary Pressures and Cephalopod Consciousness ADRIAN WARD - The Feeling of Willing PAUL CISEK - The Vanishing Central Executive: Distributed Neural Mechanisms for Decision-Making EVA JABLONKA - Evolutionary Origins of Experiencing CLOSING LECTURE: JOHN SEARLE - Consciousness and Causality OPTIONAL WORKSHOP July 10th, am: Functional Connectivity July 10th, pm: Transcranial Stimulation July 11th, am: Sleep and Dreams July 11th, pm: Magnetoencephalography http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/intro.php

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Markus Gabriel

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest This is just to remind you that the seminar will be held on THURSDAY this week! 29 March (Thursday!!!) 6:00 PM Room 226 (Please notice the unusual day and time!) Markus Gabriel Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn Why the World Does Not Exist ___________________________________ 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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[koglist] 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 4 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Hans Radder Faculty of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam Does the Brain ‘Initiate’ Freely Willed Processes? A Critique of Libet-Type Experiments and Their Interpretation 11 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Attila Molnár Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest Possible Objects and Their Collisions in SpecRel with the Aid of Modal Logic 18 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gergely Kertész Department of Philosophy and the History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Miféle dolog egy negatív ok, ha egyáltalán valami? - Avagy azért száradtak el a virágok, mert a kertész elfelejtette locsolni őket? (What kind of a thing is a negative cause, if it is something at all? - Or did the flowers dry out because the gardener forgot to water them?) 25 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Barry Loewer Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University Two Accounts of Laws and Time ___________________________________ 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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[koglist] Meghívó a MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet programjaira

by Mária Sipos

Az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet szeretettel várja az érdeklődőket az alábbi programokra: 2012. március 27. kedd 11 óra Richard Hudson professor emeritus, University College, London Word Grammar and its analysis of word order http://www.nytud.hu/program/absz/hudson110327.html 2012. március 27. kedd 15.00 TINTA könyvbemutató és könyvvásár http://www.tintakiado.hu/news_view.php?id=245 14.30-tól a TINTA Könyvkiadó könyvei kedvezményesen vásárolhatók meg. 2012. március 29. csütörtök 18 óra Dan Sperber The myth of 'scalar implicature' http://www.nytud.hu/program/absz/sperber120328.html szervező: Magyar Szemantikusok Asztaltársasága és MTA-ELTE Elméleti Nyelvészet Kihelyezett Tanszék A programok helyszíne: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33. földszinti tanácsterem

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