THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
April Program
2 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Péter Fazekas, Balázs Gyenis, Gábor Hofer-Szabó, and Gergely Kertész
Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Causation: a dynamical systems approach
9 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Mátyás Brendel
Continental-Konzern, Lindau
Finomhangolt és szimulált univerzumok, valószínűségi és metafizikai
spekulációk a filozófiában és a tudományban
(Fine-tuned and simulated universes, probabilistic and metaphysical
speculations in philosophy and science)
23 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Tibor Sutyák
Department of Philosophy, University of Szeged
Következtetés, következmény és racionális belátás
(Reasoning, inference, and rational discernment)
30 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
János Kelemen
Department of General Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös University, Budapest
Lukács György nyelv- és tudományfilozófiá(i)
(Georg Lukács's philosophy(ies) of language and science)
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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)
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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
26 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Zalán Gyenis* and Miklós Rédei**
* Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
** Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, London
Can Bayesian agents always be rational?
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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
Dear All,
Our Cognitive Friday series continue with a talk by Zoltán Nádasdy. The
topic of the talk is:
The plan of Quantum Journals: a new scientific publication model
Time and place:
*27th March, 2014 (Thursday)*
*15.30ELTE PPK Institute of Psychology1064 Budapest, Izabella utca 46.,
room P3*
Additional information about the Cognitive Friday can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek, the
abstract of the current talk can be viewed below.
All are welcome!
"The plan of Quantum Journals: a new scientific publication model"
Zoltan Nadasdy,
The 'Quantum Journals' will introduce a "new" model for scientific
publication. This is a family of journals that will share the same
operation principles and software, called the "publication engine". These
principles are:
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free submission
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open review
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open access
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community control
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quantitative evaluation
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transparency
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no editor or editorial board
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quick publication
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copyright ownership by authors
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cloning and franchising new journals
The group of Quantum journals is one (but not the only) response to the
increasing dissatisfaction with the peer-review system. Partly, the
peer-review system is responsible for publication delays, acceptance-bias
and the monopoly of publishers, which not only paralyze the dissemination
of information but also reproduce elitism and the geographical imbalance of
science and knowledge. The goal is to provide the necessary publication
tools for people who actually generate knowledge.
Kedves Kollégák, Érdeklődők!
Az *Autizmus Világnapja* alkalmából az *ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai
Kara* szeretettel várja Önöket, az idén is megrendezésre kerülő *"Dialógusok
az autizmusról"* szakmai rendezvényén.
A konferencia témája: Az autizmus és a digitális technológiai perspektívák
A pontos program, időpont és helyszín a csatolt fájlban található.
Kérjük, továbbítsa meghívónkat azoknak, akiknek érdeklődését felkeltheti
konferenciánk.
Üdvözlettel,
Dr. Stefanik Krisztina
tudományos és nemzetközi ügyekért felelős dékánhelyettes
ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar
*MEGHÍVÓ*
A *Társas-Kognitív Nyelvészeti Kutatócsoport, *
valamint a *DAB Nyelvtudományi Munkabizottsága*
és a *Debreceni Egyetem BTK Hallgatói Önkormányzata*
meghívja
*Csányi Vilmos*(MTA)
*Az emberi kommunikáció evolúciója*
című előadására
*Helyszín: *MTA Debreceni Területi Bizottság (DAB) székháza (Debrecen,
Thomas Mann u. 49. <http://mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/tkny/de-dab_map.html>), I.
emelet "C" terem (Kis előadó)
*Időpont: *2014. március 24. (hétfő) 16:00
Az ember az együttműködő, nyelvet beszélő, azonos hiedelmeket elfogadó és
csoportjainak szerveződését együttesen elhatározó komplex közösségek
létrehozásával vált ki az állatvilágból. Ennek a hosszú, sok millió éves
folyamatnak a főbb állomásait már elég jól körvonalazták az ezzel
foglalkozó tudományok. Az állatok kommunikációja nem hasonlít az emberi
nyelvre, csupán néhány értelmezhető jelet tartalmaz, amelyek természetesen
fontos szerepet játszanak az állatcsoportok életében. Az állati elme zárt
rendszer. Az emberi nyelv viszont nemcsak jelek adására képes, hanem
gondolatok cseréjére is. Az ember elméje ezért nyitott és számtalan
konstrukciós folyamat segítője, amelyekre az állatvilágban nem találunk
példát. Evolúciós kialakulására csak a közösségek kialakulását segítő
összetett folyamatok vizsgálatával nyerhetünk bepillantást.
Az előadásokon minden érdeklődőt örömmel lát a Társas-Kognitív Nyelvészeti
Kutatócsoport, a DAB Nyelvtudományi Munkabizottsága és DE BTK Hallgatói
Önkormányzata.
Debrecen, 2014. március 20.
Kis Tamás
Fehér Krisztina
Tóth Valéria
Szikszai Tamás
A Társas-Kognitív Nyelvészeti Kutatócsoport alapító tagjai
A DAB Nyelvtudományi Munkabizottságának elnöke
A DE BTK Hallgatói Önkormányzat elnöke
Ha előadás-sorozatunk vagy kutatásaink felkeltették érdeklődését,
látogasson el honlapunkra (http://mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/tkny), és
regisztráljon hírlevelünkre (
https://mail.unideb.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tarskogny), vagy
csatlakozzon Facebook-oldalunkhoz (https://www.facebook.com/tarskogny),
hogy a későbbiekben is értesítést kapjon előadásainkról, publikációinkról.
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The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) on
`Assessing radical sophisticated embodiment`
Tuesday, 25 March, 2014, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Several related though distinct questions have been raised in recent
philosophy of mind and cognitive science: what makes an individual’s
mind or cognition embodied, situated, grounded, embedded, enactive, and
extended? I’ll focus on the first question: what makes an individual’s
mind embodied? I’ll argue for the following distinctions: embodiment can
be uncontroversial or controversial. Controversial embodiment can be
moderate or radical. Controversial radical embodiment can be crude or
sophisticated. For the purpose of clarifying this last distinction, I
will introduce the doctrine of Cartesian materialism construed as the
conjunction of (i) the computational representational approach to the
mind and mental processes, (ii) the Fodorian trichotomy and (iii)
neurocentrism. I shall examine the respective costs of rejecting each
conjunct and examine the question how radical sophisticated embodiment
relates to the extended mind.
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Ryan Cook (CEU)
on
"The Works and Attributes of Soul: A Non-Functionalist Interpretation of Cognitive Contents in Aristotle's De Anima I"
Tuesday, 18 March, 2014, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Over the past forty years, it has been increasingly common for scholars of the De Anima to treat Aristotle as a sort of proto-functionalist. On such an interpretation, the Aristotelian souls of living organisms explain psychological activities such as perception, emotion, and desire by subsuming them within the wider context of an organism's purposive behaviours, and all genuinely scientific definitions of these activities will eschew references to private mental contents in favour of functional roles occupied by a variety of material realizers. In this way, it is claimed, Aristotle avoids the traditional pitfalls associated with Platonic Dualism, and provides a uniquely hylomorphic solution to the mind-body problem. Since all putatively psychic states are in fact only bodily states understood in a certain way, there is no question as to how such psychic states might be capable of causing or being produced by various physical changes, and no need to posit a sui generis realm of psychic or mental contents.
I believe we have several reasons to reject this proto-functionalist interpretation, and take
Aristotle's considered explanations of various cognitive activities to require precisely the sorts of irreducibly psychic or mental states it intends to eliminate. In this talk, I will examine some of these reasons, and offer a close reading of two De Anima I passages that are standardly held to require such proto-functionalist construals. When read in their proper context, I shall claim, neither of these texts demands the sorts of reductionist readings favoured by contemporary interpreters, and each in fact contains claims and arguments which suggest the ontologically richer account I favour.
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> 08.09.2014-12.09.2014, Jena, Germany
> REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN; PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
> One of the most robust experience-dependent adjustments of neural function is repetition suppression (RS): the rapid reduction of neural responses caused by the repetition (or prolonged prior presentation) of a given stimulus. RS is a robust and reliable neural phenomenon that clearly shows the plastic changes of the CNS. In spite of the broad interest and intensive studying no consensus has been reached regarding the neural mechanisms of RS as of today. The aim of RESUS is to bring together eminent researchers from the USA, the UK, and Europe with students of a broad range of disciplines to teach and discuss current views on RS. The speakers are experts in clinical, computational, single-cell, EEG/MEG/ERP, TMS and fMRI studies. We expect that RESUS will give a unique opportunity to present, discuss, and integrate cutting-edge research on this important phenomenon of the CNS.
> 1 intensive week of training with 20 speakers from 8 countries for 40 students as a maximum
> The Friedrich Schiller University, Jena organizes a Summer School aimed at PhD students and post-docs at the early stages in their careers. Places are limited to ensure good interaction in classes.
> RESUS will take place at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany between 08 September and 12 September 2014. It will consist of an intensive week of lectures with two keynotes, a student-oriented poster session and a round-table discussion. Lecturers are renowned researchers from the most active research groups in their fields. A list of invited lecturers and the program of the summer school are available on summer school website:
> http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/RESUS.html
> In addition to the academic content, RESUS provides a networking opportunity for students to interact with their peers, and to make contacts among those who will be the active researchers of their own generation.
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> Registration deadline: 31 May 2014.
> Summer school: Monday 08 September - Friday 12 September 2014
> Registration fee: 100 Euro.
> It includes all sessions and materials, accommodation (6 nights), refreshments and coffee, finger-foods and wine during poster session and round table discussion, Summer School Dinner.
> Confirmed Speakers: (in alphabetical order)
> Bunzeck N Hamburg, D
> Deco G Barcelona, E
> Grill-Spector K Stanford, CA, US (keynote speaker)
> Friston K London, UK (keynote speaker)
> Kiebel S Jena, D
> Kammer T Ulm, D
> Kohn A New York, USA
> Kovács G Jena, D
> Krekelberg B Newark, USA
> De Lange F Nijmegen, NL
> Obermayer K Berlin, D
> Rossion B Louvain, B
> Schwarzbach J Trento, I
> Schweinberger S Jena, D
> Summerfield C Oxford, UK
> Thiel C Oldenburg, D
> Valentini E Roma, I
> Vidnyánszky Z Budapest, H
> Vogels R Leuven, B
> Weigelt S Bochum, D
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Institute of Psychology
Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena
Germany
Tel: 03641945936
http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
19 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Péter Mekis
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös University, Budapest
Frege and the Problem of Understanding
__________________________________
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