koglist January 2014

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[koglist] reminder: invitation to a philosophy talk by Claudine Tiercelin on`Should one be afraid of essentialism ?`- 21. January 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) By Claudine Tiercelin (College de France) on `Should one be afraid of essentialism ?` Tuesday, 21 January, 2014, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Essentialism, basically viewed both as aristotelian and anti-scientific, was largely out of favor during the two thirds of the twentieth century, thanks to the prevailing anti-metaphysical attitude associated with the linguistic and logical positivist heritage (Quine). Together with a revival of metaphysics, some new forms of essentialism came to the fore, which were no longer tied to a substantialist or « deep » approach, but insisted more (as in Kripke or Putnam’s versions) on viewing essence as a modality. More recently, such conceptions have been attacked (Fine) and other versions of essentialist metaphysics have been proposed : either along neo-aristotelian lines (E. J. Lowe), or in such versions as B. Ellis’s « scientific essentialism ». However, essentialism still has a bad reputation in many circles, and not only among metaphysicians but among scientists (and philosophers of biology in particular). Now, are they right to be afraid of essentialism ? In the first part of my talk, I shall proceed to a brief clarification of the main meanings attached to the concepts of essence and essentialism ; I shall then present, in broad outlines, the merits and limits of the various essentialist responses that have been proposed to some antimetaphysical reactions, before suggesting, in the last part of my talk, another (hopefully more convincing and reassuring) approach, which I have called « aliquidditism » - consisting mainly in viewing essence along relational and dispositional lines – and which is part and parcel of the dispositional realistic and scientific attitude I recommend in metaphysics.

12 years, 3 months

[koglist] invitation to a philosophy talk by Claudine Tiercelin on`Should one be afraid of essentialism ?`- 21. January 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

12 years, 3 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Gerry Altmann (University of York), Wednesday, January 15, 5PM, Cognitive Development Center

by olivier mascaro

Dear all, This is to remind you that the next talk in the CEU Cognitive Science seminar series will by given by: *Gerry Altmann* *(The **University of York)* Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2013, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor *Title:* Representing objects across time: eye movement and fMRI studies of language-mediated event representation. Language is often used to describe the changes that occur around us – changes in either state (“I cracked the glass…”) or location (“I moved the glass onto the table…”). To fully comprehend such events requires that we represent the ‘before’ and ‘after’ states of the object. But how do we represent these mutually exclusive states of a single object at the same time? I shall summarise a series of studies, primarily from fMRI, which show that we do represent such alternative states, and that these alternative states compete with one another in much the same way as alternative interpretations of an ambiguous word might compete. These studies also show that whereas the representations of distinct but similar objects (e.g. a glass and a cup) interfere with one another in proportion to their similarity, representations of the distinct states of the same object interfere in proportion to their dissimilarity. This interference, or competition, manifests in a part of the brain that has been implicated in resolving competition. Furthermore, activity in this area is predicted by the dissimilarity, elsewhere in the brain, between sensorimotor instantiations of the described object’s distinct states. I shall end with new data (still too hot to touch) whose interpretation is a first step towards a brain mechanism for distinguishing between object types, tokens, and token-states. 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. 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 _______________________________________________ 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

12 years, 3 months

[koglist] reminder: invitation to a philosophy talk on`The Difference between Teaching and Habituation in Plato and Aristotle`by David Ebrey - 14 January, 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by David Ebrey (Northwestern University) on `The Difference between Teaching and Habituation in Plato and Aristotle` Tuesday, 14 January, 2014, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT One of Plato and Aristotle’s insights is that moral education should develop both reason and the emotions. But how should it do this? Should there be a single type of education that simultaneously develops both reason and the emotions or should these be developed by separate processes? If separate, how should they relate to each other? Our answers to these questions will be tightly connected to our understanding of moral psychology: what is the relation between reason, desires, and emotions, and what role do they play in a good life? I argue that Plato and Aristotle have interesting, compelling, and yet importantly different answers to these questions. It is frequently thought that their views on moral education are very similar, perhaps with different emphases. I argue that they differ on some key issues. We can put the basic issue this way: are there fundamentally different methods for acquiring different virtues, or is the acquisition of virtue a more holistic process, in which the same sort of training is involved in the acquisition of the virtues? Aristotle thinks that there are two fundamentally different processes for different types of virtues. Habituation is the process for developing the non-rational part of our soul and, in doing so, one develops the character virtues. Teaching, by contrast, properly develops the rational part of the soul, leading to the intellectual virtues. Plato, by contrast, doesn’t think that there are fundamentally distinct processes for developing the different parts of the soul. Instead, in Plato’s Republic moral education sometimes involves the same activity developing different parts of the soul and sometimes involves very different activities developing the very same part of the soul. Typically the goal of this web of activities is to bring the different parts of the soul into harmony, not to separately develop the different parts. And Plato doesn’t contrast teaching with habituation at all. He gives habituation a different role from Aristotle, an interesting development found in his Phaedo, Republic, and Laws.

12 years, 3 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] ANNOUNCEMENT: Gerry Altmann (University of York), Wednesday, January 15, 5PM, Cognitive Development Center

by olivier mascaro

Dear all, The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Science seminar series will by given by: *Gerry Altmann* *(The **University of York)* Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2013, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor *Title:* Representing objects across time: eye movement and fMRI studies of language-mediated event representation. Language is often used to describe the changes that occur around us – changes in either state (“I cracked the glass…”) or location (“I moved the glass onto the table…”). To fully comprehend such events requires that we represent the ‘before’ and ‘after’ states of the object. But how do we represent these mutually exclusive states of a single object at the same time? I shall summarise a series of studies, primarily from fMRI, which show that we do represent such alternative states, and that these alternative states compete with one another in much the same way as alternative interpretations of an ambiguous word might compete. These studies also show that whereas the representations of distinct but similar objects (e.g. a glass and a cup) interfere with one another in proportion to their similarity, representations of the distinct states of the same object interfere in proportion to their dissimilarity. This interference, or competition, manifests in a part of the brain that has been implicated in resolving competition. Furthermore, activity in this area is predicted by the dissimilarity, elsewhere in the brain, between sensorimotor instantiations of the described object’s distinct states. I shall end with new data (still too hot to touch) whose interpretation is a first step towards a brain mechanism for distinguishing between object types, tokens, and token-states. 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. 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 _______________________________________________ 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

12 years, 4 months

[koglist] MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet januári program

by Hegedus Veronika

Kedves Kollégák! Alább bemásolva küldöm a Nyelvtudományi Intézet januári programját. Üdvözlettel, Hegedűs Veronika tudományos titkár ------------------- Az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézetének januári programja 2014. január 21. kedd, 11.00 óra Garamszegi László Zsolt Estacion Biológica de Donana – CSIC Kényszerházasság a nyelvészet és az evolúcióbiológia között? Lexikális hálózatok, filogenetikai módszerek és az állati kommunikáció helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2014. január 23. csütörtök, 11.00 óra Andreas Nolda Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Német Nyelvészeti Tanszék Word-formation types. Definition, identification, classification szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2014. január 28. kedd, 11.00 óra Olach Zsuzsanna MTA-SzTE Turkológiai Kutatócsoport Ószövetségi szövegek halicsi karaim fordításának nyelvészeti tanulságai helyszín: földszinti előadóterem *** http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.

12 years, 4 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU - Summer University Course on Morality - June 23-30, 2014

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, Please find the announcement of the CEU Summer University course on MORALITY: EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS AND COGNITIVE MECHANISMS. (Gergely Csibra and Dan Sperber representing the department) Date: between June 23-30, 2014. We would very much appreciate if you could share this AD with your colleagues/students/in your email lists. Thank you very much, Kind regards, Reka _______________________________________________ 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

12 years, 4 months

[koglist] invitation to a philosophy talk on`The Difference between Teaching and Habituation in Plato and Aristotle`by David Ebrey - 14 January, 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

12 years, 4 months

[koglist] call for Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog) 2014

by Dora Kampis

VI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science Language and Conceptual Development 22-24 May 2014 Dubrovnik, Croatia Participants are invited to submit their work as a poster Abstract submission is open deadline: February 17th Chairs: Judit Gervain & Ágnes Melinda Kovács Invited speakers Lisa Feigenson and Justin Halberda Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Alex Cristia and Emmanuel Dupoux Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique, ENS-CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France Nuria Sebastian Galles and Luca Bonatti Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Gergely Csibra and György Gergely Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Special Session: ERC information Symposium Panelists: Nuria Sebastian Galles, Emmanuel Dupoux, Csaba Pléh, Gergely Csibra, György Gergely, Ágnes Melinda Kovács Financial aid available for a limited number of students from Central and Eastern Europe on the basis of the quality of their abstracts. For more information visit: http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php

12 years, 4 months

[koglist] Logic and Theory of Science MA in Budapest

by Laszlo E. Szabo

LOGIC AND THEORY OF SCIENCE Master's Program (in English) Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, EU The two-year program is focusing on logic and its applications in the philosophy of science, particularly in the philosophy of mathematics, physics, linguistics and the social sciences. Beyond a few core courses and a joint four-semester seminar series, providing a common background to all students, we offer the following concentrations: -Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics -Philosophy and Foundations of Physics -Logic in Linguistics -Formal Models in the Social Sciences We encourage the application of both Hungarian and foreign students who hold a BA/BSc degree either in philosophy or in some other field related to the concentration the applicant intends to choose. For further information see: http://phil.elte.hu/logic/ma.html Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone interested! -- 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

12 years, 4 months

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