THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
22 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Local causality
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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 CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
István Aranyosi (Bilkent University)
on
`Nerve and analysis -- conceptual analysis in neuroscience`
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to subscribe to a dichotomy
between so-called empirical and so-called analytic or a priori methods
of philosophical research, which, in their view, leads to a current
chasm: Armchair versus Empirical philosophy of mind. I argue that this
is a false dichotomy and the idea of a chasm is misplaced. I will base
my argument on the early history (19th and early 20th Century) of
neuroscience, namely, the birth experimental neurophysiology, where we
can identify an essential a priori component in scientific reasoning. I
then apply those pieces of reasoning to some extant problems in the
philosophy of mind, thus offering some elegant solutions to them.
We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME Cognitive Seminar
Series:
Date & Time: May 27, Monday, 12:00-13:00
Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515.
*Sensory prediction and the sense of agency during individual and joint
action*
*John Dewey*
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
During voluntary action, forward models in the brain pre-activate
representations of the predicted sensory consequences. These forward
models are believed to play important roles in motor control and the
sense of agency (SoA), i.e. registration that one was the initiator or
controller of the action. The majority of the literature on sensory
prediction and its relation to SoA has focused on individual actions. By
contrast, there has been relatively little work on sensory prediction
and SoA when the sensory consequences of actions are multiply determined
by several simultaneous influences. In this talk, I will present an
overview of current theories linking SoA to sensory prediction in the
context of individual action. Then I will present some evidence from my
recent work suggesting that in the context of cooperative joint action
(e.g. controlling a moving object together with another person), the
tight relationship between sensory prediction and SoA begins to break
down. I will argue for a hierarchical account of SoA, where SoA is
determined by a combination of low-level sensorimotor cues and
successful attainment of higher level goals.
--
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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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
8 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Réka Markovich
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös University, Budapest
Modalities, operators, actions
___________________________________
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 CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
István Aranyosi (Bilkent University)
on
`Nerve and analysis -- conceptual analysis in neuroscience`
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to subscribe to a dichotomy
between so-called empirical and so-called analytic or a priori methods
of philosophical research, which, in their view, leads to a current
chasm: Armchair versus Empirical philosophy of mind. I argue that this
is a false dichotomy and the idea of a chasm is misplaced. I will base
my argument on the early history (19th and early 20th Century) of
neuroscience, namely, the birth experimental neurophysiology, where we
can identify an essential a priori component in scientific reasoning. I
then apply those pieces of reasoning to some extant problems in the
philosophy of mind, thus offering some elegant solutions to them.
Kedves Kollégák és Hallgatók,
Május 7. kedden 18.00-19.00 óra között Budapesten
az Izabella utca 46. 101. teremben
Prof. Antal Andrea (Göttingen University Medical School, Dept. of Clinical
Neurophysiology)
előadást tart
"*Új technikák a transzkraniális stimulációban*" címmel.
Minden érdeklődőt várunk szeretettel!
üdvözlettel,
Németh Dezső
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NEMETH, Dezso (PhD)
Institute of Psychology
Eötvös Loránd University
Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com