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
Márton Gömöri
Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Probability, causality and the approach to equilibrium
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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: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
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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
June Program
5 June (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Sašo Živanović
Department of Comparative and General Linguistics
University of Ljubljana
Towards a cognitively plausible deductive system
_______________________________
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: 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
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its next talk by:
Pascal Boyer, University of Washington
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Dan Sperber
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
Title: Religions in the Wild: How General Properties of Human Communication Result in Religious Traditions
Abstract:
For most of human history and prehistory in most places, religious activity for most people did and still does centre on ways to palliate and prevent misfortune, notably by resorting to specialists, best equipped to deal with spirits and other superhuman agents. This "wild religion" includes no stable doctrine, no interest in good and evil, no priests with formal training, no community of believers and no concept of 'faith'. I propose that the common features of wild religion stem from our evolved psychology, in particular from our need to gain welfare and fitness by providing high-value information to others, and being seen as providers of such information.
See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2019-05-15/departmental-colloquium-…
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1051 Budapest
Oktober 6 utca 7.
tel: (36-1) 887-5138
fax: (36-1) 887-5010
http://www.ceu.eduhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.edu
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The Department of Cognitive Science
cordially invites you
to the public defense of the PhD thesis
Remembering in Communication
A novel account of the architecture and function of human episodic memory
by
Johannes Mahr
PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Gergely Csibra
SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Dan Sperber
Members of the Dissertation Committee:
Christophe Heintz, Chair, CEU
Pascal Boyer, external examiner, University of Washington
Teresa McCormack, external examiner, Queens University, Belfast
abstract | Remembering is a fundamental component of human life and cognition. Humans spend a sizable portion of their lives with thinking and talking about their past experiences. The past and our memories of it seem to be particularly important to us. In this thesis, I develop an account of what 'remembering' is, why we think about remembering the way we do, why humans remember at all, and why it plays such an important role in human culture and social life. In Chapter 1, I introduce the intuitive notion of remembering which has dominated philosophical discourse in the last few decades. I then move on to explain how the intuitions underlying this notion are cognitively produced by focusing on the mechanisms and evolution of human episodic memory. First, in Chapter 2, I give an account of the cognitive architecture of episodic simulation - the cognitive system producing the contents of episodic memory. I argue that episodic memory is just one specific output of the wider ability of episodic simulation (i.e. the capacity to produce mental imagery about events outside our sensory scope). Second, in Chapter 3, I focus on episodic memory specifically. Episodic memory goes beyond the outputs of episodic simulation because it includes a representation of its own causal history. When we represent an event in episodic memory, we do not just represent the event itself but also how we came to know about it, namely, through our own experience. Third, in Chapter 4, l give an account of the evolved function of the episodic memory system. That is, I explain why episodic memory has a metarepresentational structure including information about its origin in first-hand experience. I argue that this metarepresentational structure functions to allow us to determine when we can lay claim to epistemic authority about the past in communication. Finally, in Chapter 5, I ask why this ability would have been useful in the representation of particular past events. That is, I aim to answer the question why the ability to determine whether one has epistemic authority is particularly important for representations of and claims about the past. Here, I argue that for humans the past is special because it is often the only way we can determine present social realities. For humans, certain events (like promises, transfers of ownership, etc.) are conceived of as causes of social entities like commitments, entitlements, obligations, and accountabilities. The representation of token causes for such specific social effects is crucial because they commonly do not leave concomitant, traceable changes in the physical environment. Social effects like commitments, entitlements and obligations often consist only in mental representations and depend on interpersonal agreement to be effective. The only way the existence of such social effects can be negotiated is by recourse to their specific cause in the past. This does not only explain why history has such high importance to us as individuals and members of social groups, but also why humans have culturally developed a large range of technologies for making specific events with consequential social effects public, documented, and traceable, as well as why claims about the past are a continuous source of conflict.
The defense will take place at Nador street 15, room 103,
on Tuesday, May 14, 3 pm
organized by the Department of Cognitive Science
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
15 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Zoltán Sóstai
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest
The problem of Comprehensively Critical Rationalism
_______________________________
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: 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
The Department of Cognitive Science
cordially invites you
to the public defense of the PhD thesis
Remembering in Communication
A novel account of the architecture and function of human episodic memory
by
Johannes Mahr
PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Gergely Csibra
SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Dan Sperber
Members of the Dissertation Committee:
Christophe Heintz, Chair, CEU
Pascal Boyer, external examiner, University of Washington
Teresa McCormack, external examiner, Queens University, Belfast
abstract | Remembering is a fundamental component of human life and cognition. Humans spend a sizable portion of their lives with thinking and talking about their past experiences. The past and our memories of it seem to be particularly important to us. In this thesis, I develop an account of what 'remembering' is, why we think about remembering the way we do, why humans remember at all, and why it plays such an important role in human culture and social life. In Chapter 1, I introduce the intuitive notion of remembering which has dominated philosophical discourse in the last few decades. I then move on to explain how the intuitions underlying this notion are cognitively produced by focusing on the mechanisms and evolution of human episodic memory. First, in Chapter 2, I give an account of the cognitive architecture of episodic simulation - the cognitive system producing the contents of episodic memory. I argue that episodic memory is just one specific output of the wider ability of episodic simulation (i.e. the capacity to produce mental imagery about events outside our sensory scope). Second, in Chapter 3, I focus on episodic memory specifically. Episodic memory goes beyond the outputs of episodic simulation because it includes a representation of its own causal history. When we represent an event in episodic memory, we do not just represent the event itself but also how we came to know about it, namely, through our own experience. Third, in Chapter 4, l give an account of the evolved function of the episodic memory system. That is, I explain why episodic memory has a metarepresentational structure including information about its origin in first-hand experience. I argue that this metarepresentational structure functions to allow us to determine when we can lay claim to epistemic authority about the past in communication. Finally, in Chapter 5, I ask why this ability would have been useful in the representation of particular past events. That is, I aim to answer the question why the ability to determine whether one has epistemic authority is particularly important for representations of and claims about the past. Here, I argue that for humans the past is special because it is often the only way we can determine present social realities. For humans, certain events (like promises, transfers of ownership, etc.) are conceived of as causes of social entities like commitments, entitlements, obligations, and accountabilities. The representation of token causes for such specific social effects is crucial because they commonly do not leave concomitant, traceable changes in the physical environment. Social effects like commitments, entitlements and obligations often consist only in mental representations and depend on interpersonal agreement to be effective. The only way the existence of such social effects can be negotiated is by recourse to their specific cause in the past. This does not only explain why history has such high importance to us as individuals and members of social groups, but also why humans have culturally developed a large range of technologies for making specific events with consequential social effects public, documented, and traceable, as well as why claims about the past are a continuous source of conflict.
The defense will take place at Nador street 15, room 103,
on Tuesday, May 14, 3 pm
organized by the Department of Cognitive Science
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Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its next talk by:
Pascal Boyer, University of Washington
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Gergely Csibra
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
Title: Religions in the Wild: How General Properties of Human Communication Result in Religious Traditions
Abstract:
For most of human history and prehistory in most places, religious activity for most people did and still does centre on ways to palliate and prevent misfortune, notably by resorting to specialists, best equipped to deal with spirits and other superhuman agents. This "wild religion" includes no stable doctrine, no interest in good and evil, no priests with formal training, no community of believers and no concept of 'faith'. I propose that the common features of wild religion stem from our evolved psychology, in particular from our need to gain welfare and fitness by providing high-value information to others, and being seen as providers of such information.
See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2019-05-15/departmental-colloquium-…
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1051 Budapest
Oktober 6 utca 7.
tel: (36-1) 887-5138
fax: (36-1) 887-5010
http://www.ceu.eduhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.edu
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Kedves Kollégák,
Ezúton küldöm a módosított pályázati felhívásunkat az alábbi posztdoktori
kutatói álláshelyre.
PÁLYÁZATI FELHÍVÁS - POSZTDOKTOR KUTATÓ
A 'Lendület' Fejlődéstani és Transzlációs Idegtudomány Kutatócsoport
posztdoktori kutatói álláshelyet hirdet, "tudományos munkatárs"
közalkalmazotti munkakör betöltésére.
A munkakörbe tartozó feladatok:
- Téma: A kutatás célja a serdülőkori figyelemhiányos-hiperaktivitás
zavar (ADHD) és externalizációs zavarok és az ezekkel együtt járó affektív
diszreguláció, funkcionális károsodások és viselkedésproblémák (dohányzás,
alkohol- és drogfogyasztás, kockázatos magatartásformák) genetikai,
neurobiológiai (fMRI, ERP), és viselkedésbeli védő/ rizikó faktorainak -
különös tekintettel a jutalomfeldolgozásbeli egyéni különbségekre és azok
korrelátumaira - feltérképezése egy longitudinális vizsgálatban.
- Feladatok: A téma nemzetközi irodalmának nyomon követése,
adatfelvétel, adatelemzés, kéziratkészítés, az eredmények publikálása
nemzetközi szaklapokban, valamint a kutatáshoz kapcsolódó szervezési és
adminisztratív feladatok (pl. betegek/ résztvevők adatainak kezelése,
rekrutálás, betegek/ résztvevők nyomon követése, kapcsolattartás).
Pályázati feltételek:
- Ph.D. diploma, elsősorban, de nem kizárólagosan, klinikai pszichológia,
pszichiátria, affektív (ideg)tudomány, vagy biológia szakon
- Angol nyelvtudás
- Számítógépes és Statisztikai ismeretek
A pályázat elbírálásánál előnyt jelent:
- fMRI adatelemzés ismeretek
- ERP adatelemzés ismeretek
- Kiváló publikációs teljesítmény
- Alapvető programozási ismeretek
Illetmény és egyéb juttatások: Hazai és nemzetközi szinten versenyképes
fizetés.
A közalkalmazotti jogviszony időtartama:
Határozott idejű közalkalmazotti jogviszony 1 éves kinevezéssel, 3 hónapos
próbaidő kikötésével. Sikeres előrehaladás esetén 3 további évre
hosszabbítható.
Foglalkoztatás jellege: Teljes idejű foglalkoztatás (napi 8 óra).
A munkavégzés helye:
MTA Természettudományi Kutatóközpont (TTK) Kognitív Idegtudományi és
Pszichológiai Intézet; 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2.
A pályázat részeként benyújtandó iratok:
- A pályázó szakmai életútját részletesen bemutató, fényképes szakmai
önéletrajz, motivációs levél, valamint a végzettséget igazoló okiratok és
nyelvvizsga bizonyítványok fénymásolatai.
- nyilatkozat arról, hogy a pályázati anyagot az elbírálásban résztvevő
személyek megismerhetik
A pályázat benyújtásának határideje: 2019. május 27.
A pályázat elbírálásának határideje: 2019. június 10.
A munkakör betölthetőségének időpontja: 2019. július 1.
A pályázatok benyújtásának helye és módja:
A pályázatot egy példányban, elektronikus úton, egyetlen pdf file formájában
juttassa el a következő e-mail címre: bunford.nora(a)ttk.mta.hu. Kérjük az
e-mail tárgyában feltüntetni, hogy "Pályázat - Lendület Fejlődéstani és
Transzlációs Idegtudomány".
A pályázat elbírálásának rendje:
A pályázat elbírálása a beérkezés után azonnal történik. Visszajelzést csak
az állásinterjúra behívott jelentkezők kapnak. Az interjú a beszélgetésen
túlmenően egy szakmai prezentációt is magában foglal. A pályáztatott
munkakörrel kapcsolatban további felvilágosítást ad: Dr. Bunford Nóra; tel:
+36 1 382 6817.
Budapest, 2019. május 8.
Dr. Bunford Nóra
Kutatócsoport-vezető
Kedves Kollégák!
Az MTA TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet Kísérleti
Pszichológiai Kutatócsoportja olyan (leendő) PhD-hallgatót keres, aki
doktori kutatásában szívesen foglalkozna a cselekvési szándék észlelésre
és cselekvésre gyakorolt hatásával a kísérleti pszichológia és
pszichofiziológia módszereivel (EEG/ERP).
Az érdeklődők, kérem, a
horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu
címre írjanak.
Üdvözlettel,
Horváth János
--
János Horváth, PhD DSc
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1519 Budapest, P.O.B. 286, HUNGARY
Phone: +36 1 382 6815
Institute of Psychology, Department of General Psychology and Methodology
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
H-1037 Budapest, Bécsi str. 324, HUNGARY
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/janoshorvathphd/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0147-4518
Begin forwarded message:
From: "CLAY, ZANNA S.E.V." <zanna.e.clay(a)durham.ac.uk<mailto:zanna.e.clay@durham.ac.uk>>
Subject: Post-doc position in cross-cultural developmental psychology
Date: 6 May 2019 at 21:36:24 CEST
To: "csibrag(a)ceu.edu<mailto:csibrag@ceu.edu>" <csibrag(a)ceu.edu<mailto:csibrag@ceu.edu>>
Dear Professor Csibra
I am looking to hire a post-doc in cross-cultural developmental psychology as part of an ERC grant to look at comparative development of empathy. The postdoc will involve studying empathy development in infants living in the South Pacific (Vanuatu and Samoa) with later comparisons to bonobos)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DMcXmPnAmo9ciSczp41AyqZ4QZbN_Uw/view
Many thanks in advance!
best wishes
Zanna
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Zanna Clay, PhD
Department of Psychology
Durham University
South Rd, Durham
DH1 3LE, UK
Phone: + 44 (0)191 334 9114
Twitter: @zannaclay