The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)
on
The Value of Suffering
Tuesday, 3 November 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Pain and suffering are both widespread and varied: think of all of the very many kinds of pain, emotional distress, physical discomfort, and mental anguish that human beings experience. It is, moreover, widely agreed that all of these different forms of suffering are bad: we have reason to avoid, alleviate, and reduce our own pain and suffering, and that of others. However, suffering can also be valuable, and in many different ways. In this talk I’ll explain some of the ways in which pain and suffering can be good for us, and for others
Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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Central European University
Nador u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Office: + 36.1.327.3806 | biberk(a)ceu.hu | www.ceu.hu
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
4 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Zsolt Ziegler
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Moral Responsibility, Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, Determinism,
Indeterminism, Control
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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)
--
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
Kedves Kollégák!
Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet novemberi
programjaira.
2015. november 3. (kedd) 11.00 óra
Borbély Anna
(MTA NYTI)
Egyéni fenntartható kétnyelvűség
szervező: Pszicho-, Neuro- és Szociolingvisztikai Osztály
helyszín: földszinti előadóterem
2015. november 10. (kedd) 15.00–18.00 óra
A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2015
A nyelvtudomány technológiai alapú evolúciója
helyszín: MTA Székház, Nagyterem
http://mta.hu/esemeny_2015/?event=5330
2015. november 19. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra
Rebrus Péter - Törkenczy Miklós
(MTA NYTI - ELTE BTK)
Abigéllal matinére? A gyakoriság szerepe a hangrendi ingadozásban
szervező: Kísérleti és Analógiás Fonológia–Alaktan Kutatócsoport
helyszín: földszinti előadóterem
2015. november 24. (kedd) 11.00 óra
Marcin Wagiel
(Palacky University, Olomouc)
Adjectives and kind modification
szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály
helyszín: földszinti előadóterem
2015. november 26. (csütörtök) 14.00–17.00 óra
A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2015
Nyílt Nap
Digitális és kísérletes nyelvészet testközelből
helyszín: MTA NYTI, földszinti előadóterem
http://mta.hu/esemeny_2015/?event=5331
2015. november 26. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra
Brian Leahy
(University of Konstanz)
Counterfactual Antecedent Falsity and the Epistemic Sensitivity of
Counterfactuals
szervező: Magyar Szemantikusok Asztaltársasága
helyszín: 108-as terem
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A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon
tájékozódhatnak:
http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html
MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.
Kedves Kollégák!
Szeretném felhívni a figyelmet az MTA TTK-n megrendezésre kerülő, MRI
témájú alábbi előadásokra:
október 29. 12:30 - 13:30
Zoltán Nagy (Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University
of Zurich): Devil's in the detail: The intricacies of using HARDI and
parametric MRI data for in-vivo cortical parcellation
november 3. 13:00 - 14:00
David Norris (Donders Institude, Radboud University, Nijmegen):
Simultaneous multislice (multiband) imaging
november 5. 13:00 - 14:00
Martin Blaimer (Research Center for Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg):
Parallel and phase-constrained MR imaging.
Minden érdeklődőt szívesen látunk.
Üdvözlettel,
Kettinger Ádám
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center
cordially invites you to its talk by
Claus Lamm (Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit,
Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods,
University of Vienna)
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 17:00-18:30
Host: Natalie Sebanz
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
room 101.
The neural mechanisms of empathy - from shared representations to
self-other distinction
“My talk aims to provide an overview of recent social neuroscience
research targeting the neural mechanisms of empathy. In the first part,
I will review evidence showing that empathy for pain recruits neural
networks overlapping with those underpinning the first-hand experience
of pain. While this has been interpreted to indicate that empathy relies
on "shared representations", similarity of neural activations alone is
insufficient to indicate equivalence of representations. To obtain more
conclusive evidence on whether empathy indeed recruits functionally
similar neural processes, we therefore performed a series of behavioral,
ERP, fMRI and psychopharmacological studies aiming to show that
experimentally reducing the first-hand experience of pain (by means of
placebo analgesia) equivalently reduces empathy for pain, and that this
is supported by similar neural networks and neurochemical mechanisms.
Our data indeed show that placebo analgesia reduces empathy for pain,
and that this is accompanied with matching ERP and fMRI activation
changes in the "shared" empathy for pain network identified previously.
Moreover, blocking placebo analgesia by means of an opioid antagonist
also blocks the effects of placebo analgesia on empathy. This provides
more direct and mechanistic evidence that empathy indeed relies on
functionally equivalent processes as first-hand emotion experiences,
supporting claims that empathy consists in some sort of "embodied
simulation" of the affective state of others. In the second part of my
talk, I will focus on another aspect that is crucial for the experience
of empathy, which is self-other distinction (S-O-D). I will present
results from a series of behavioral, fMRI, and TMS experiments showing
that the right supramarginal gyrus (an area adjacent but distinct to
what has classically been labeled as the “right temporo-parietal
junction”) is causally involved in self-other distinction and, more
specifically, in overcoming emotion egocentricity. I will then
demonstrate how the experience of acute psychosocial stress affects
self-other distinction, and report recent behavioral and fMRI findings
showing that a. there are profound gender differences in how stress
affects S-O-D, with females and males becoming less or more egocentric
under stress, respectively; b. that one mechanism for the higher
egocentricity in men seems to be that stress triggers a stronger
self-centered aversive response in them when witnessing the pain of
others, as indicated by fMRI."
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
November Program
4 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Zsolt Ziegler
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Moral Responsibility, Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, Determinism,
Indeterminism, Control
11 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Tomas Veloz
Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Toward a Quantum Theory of Cognition: History, Development and Perspectives
18 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gergely Székely
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Principle of Relativity, Isotropy and Homogeneity (Reloaded)
25 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Márta Ujvári
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Corvinus University, Budapest
Haecceitas Napjainkban és Duns Scotusnál: Tulajdonság vagy Entitás?
(Haecceity Today and with Duns Scotus: Property or Entity?)
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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)
--
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
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
on
Why the Scientific Revolution wasn’t a Scientific Revolution, and Why it Matters
Friday!!!! 30 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions attempts to interpret scientific change on the model of a political revolution: a period of normalcy, followed by a crisis, that is resolved by a new regime, a new paradigm. This essay explores the appropriateness of this model for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. When we examine the eclipse of Aristotelian natural philosophy, for a long while, if ever, it was not replaced by a single new paradigm. Rather, the “new” non-Aristotelian philosophy was actually a diverse group of thinkers, the “novatores” or “innovators” who agreed only in the rejection of Aristotelian natural philosophy but otherwise were quite diverse. This is important not only for understanding the historical period, but also because it reveals a flaw in Kuhn’s framework. It is important for political revolutions to be resolved: the stability of the life depends on it. But there is no reason why a scientific revolution needs to result in the adoption of a single new paradigm: in the scientific world, a diversity of competing alternatives, and not Kuhnian normal science may turn out to be the norm.
Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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Central European University
Nador u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Office: + 36.1.327.3806 | biberk(a)ceu.hu | www.ceu.hu
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham)
on
Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Confabulatory Explanations
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of confabulation is receiving increasing philosophical
attention, and its relationship with self-interpretation and
deliberation in the light of its epistemic costs and benefits are
controversial in the literature. Here I start developing an account of
confabulation that is compatible with the empirical evidence by focusing
on one form of confabulation, that is, confabulatory explanations for
one’s own attitudes and choices.
In section 1 I present one way of understanding confabulation, building
on the existing philosophical and psychological literature on the topic.
In section 2 I consider examples of explanations for one’s attitudes and
choices that can be interpreted as instances of confabulation. In
section 3 I focus on the epistemic costs of confabulatory explanations,
and in section 4 on their potential epistemic benefits. In section 5 I
draw some implications from the previous discussion for debates about
rationality and self-knowledge.
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Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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Central European University
Nador u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Office: + 36.1.327.3806 | biberk(a)ceu.hu | www.ceu.hu
The Frontostriatal Research Group of the Hungarian Academy cordially
invites you to a one-day workshop *on Deep Brain Stimulation and Cognitive
Functions in Frontostriatal Disorders*
Date: 22nd October 2015
Location: 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. (Small Room), Research
Centre for Natural Sciences
For more information see:
http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/~ktkuser/learningmemory/news/download/programme.pdf
Péter Pajkossy
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
21 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Ákos Gyarmathy & Péter Neuman
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Effective causality: the emergence of causal anomalies in effective theories
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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)
--
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