The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Martin O'Neill (York)
on
`The Special Significance of Equality of Opportunity`
Tuesday, 22 October, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
My aim in this article is to examine the special significance of
equality of opportunity. I want first to answer the question of whether
equality of opportunity really is special, when compared to any other
kind of distributive equality. My answer will be an affirmative one.
Equality in the distribution of opportunity has an importance that is
not derivative from a broader concern with egalitarian distribution and,
therefore, any plausible view of distributive justice has to give a
special place to a concern with equal opportunity.
My hope is that, in answering this question of the significance of
equality of opportunity, one can also thereby show some interesting
features, and intriguing shortcomings, of views that do not grant it a
special place. I will then try to defend the “special significance” view
by relating it to broader issues regarding the self-understanding of the
agents who are also the subjects to whom an account of justice is
addressed.
My account looks to provide a reconstructive justification for a view
that is very close to Rawls’s view of the place of equality of
opportunity, but is revisionary in a number of respects, not least of
which is the rejection of Rawls’s commitment to the lexical priority of
a principle of equality of opportunity over other distributive
concerns.
The *Translational Neuromodeling Unit *(*TNU*; Director: Prof. K.E.
Stephan) is a newly founded division of the Institute of Biomedical
Engineering at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH Zurich). Its mission is to translate advances in
computational neuroscience into diagnostic tools for psychiatry and
neurology. To this end, the TNU brings together computational modelers,
experimentalists and clinicians who jointly develop mathematical models
of maladaptive behaviour and brain disease, and evaluate their
diagnostic use in patient studies.
Within a custom-designed building, the TNU is presently setting up a
research clinic with a wide range of experimental facilities (EEG, TMS,
tDCS, pharmacological, psychophysics and behavioural labs). For our EEG
laboratories, we invite applications for a
*Research Assistant (RA), 100%*
The applicant's *main responsibilities* include:
* recording electroencephalography (EEG) and collecting behavioral
data in patients as well as healthy participants,
* support of lab management (e.g., ordering consumables, equipment),
organizational and administrative tasks, and preparation of experiments,
* support in the recruitment of participants.
*Qualifications and requirements:*
* education in a relevant field (e.g., Medical Technical Assistant, or
university graduate in natural sciences, engineering, psychology),
* fluent German and good English,
* good organizational skills,
* computer skills (MS-Office and standard web applications),
* ability to work independently and in a team.
*Advantageous (but not required):*
* experience in electroencephalography (training can be provided to
the successful applicant),
* programming skills (Matlab).
We offer a position with an initial duration of 1 year. Further
extension is possible. The salary will depend on experience and
qualifications.
The TNU, located in central Zurich, offers a young, collegial and highly
international community, and an exciting interdisciplinary scientific
environment at the intersection between computational neuroscience,
neuropharmacology and psychiatry.
The application, including a short letter of motivation, CV and the
names and contact information of two references should be sent by email
in a single pdf to tnu-jobs(a)biomed.ee.ethz.ch
<mailto:tnu-jobs@biomed.ee.ethz.ch>. Shortlisted applicants will be
invited for interviews. Informal inquiries can be directed to Dr. G.
Stefanics (stefanics(a)biomed.ee.ethz.ch
<mailto:stefanics@biomed.ee.ethz.ch>).
Applications will be considered until the position has been filled.
Web:
http://www.translationalneuromodeling.org/open-position-for-research-assist…
Dear all,
This is to remind you that the next talk in our seminar series will by
given by:
Yuyan Luo (University of Missouri)
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
Title: Infants understand others' preferences using statistical information
and transitive reasoning.
Understanding one another’s preferences, e.g., for something or someone
over others, is important for us to navigate the social world. Even infants
seem to make sense of agents’ actions in terms of preferences, which are
defined as dispositional states that help explain why an agent chooses a
particular object in the presence of another option. So far, results on
infants’ understanding of preferences have come from experimental
situations in which the available evidence is straightforward, that is,
when an agent’s choice between two options is consistent. I will present
data showing when the agent chooses inconsistently between two options,
infants can use different consistency/inconsistency ratios to learn about
the agent's preferences. In addition, I will present data showing that
infants can also engage in transitive reasoning about preferences.
Together, these results demonstrate how general learning mechanisms,
statistical learning and transitive reasoning in particular, inform
infants' understanding about agents' preferences.
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
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Szeretettel meghívjuk Önt és munkatársait szemináriumsorozatunk
következő előadására:
Időpont: November 4, Hétfő, 12:00-13:00
Helyszín: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép. 515.
*A neuropszichológus szerepe az agyműtétes betegek ellátásában***
*Borbély Csaba*
Országos Klinikai Idegtudományi Intézet
--
Attila Keresztes
PhD candidate
Junior Research Fellow
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
Egry József u. 1, Budapest
1111, Hungary
Tel: +36 1 4633525
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Meryem Sebti (CNRS Paris)
on
`Ethical Trends in Islamic Philosophy`
Tuesday, 15 October, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
When we look into the history of classical Islamic philosophy, we can
notice the paramount importance of ethical writings from the 10th to the
16th century. In my present study, I will try to focus on the
specificity of this classical ethics; to underline its relationship to
Greek ethics but also its close relationship to the Qur’ān and the Sunna
and try to show how this very specific heritage has its place in Muslim
contexts today.
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
16 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Márta Ujvári
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest
Mereological principles doing metaphysical job
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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
Postdoctoral researchers at the Department of Cognitive Science of CEU will present their recent findings at a one-day workshop (see the program below). Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Postdoctoral Research Workshop
Friday October 11, 2013
Room G15, Frankel Leo u. 30-34.
10:30 John Dewey
Predicting what and when: a common mechanism for sensory attenuation and temporal binding?
11:00 Bálint Forgács
The relevance of abstract meaning in understanding novel metaphors
11:30 Mikołaj Hernik
Infants learn functions of novel tools from the outcomes of instrumental actions
* 12:00 lunch break
13:00 Ivana Konvalinka
Physiological mechanisms underlying social interaction
13:30 Olivier Mascaro
Assumptions of efficiency in infants' interpretation of joint actions
14:00 Olivier Morin
Cognitive attraction in cultural evolution
* 14:30 coffee break
15:00 Ernő Téglás
Intentionality permanence
15:30 Cordula Vesper
Dissociating coordination strategies in a joint mouse tracking task
16:00 Jun Yin
Seeing a social group: Perceptual grouping by social relationship information
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Dear all,
The next talk in our seminar series will by given by:
Yuyan Luo (University of Missouri)
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
Title: Infants understand others' preferences using statistical information
and transitive reasoning.
Understanding one another’s preferences, e.g., for something or someone
over others, is important for us to navigate the social world. Even infants
seem to make sense of agents’ actions in terms of preferences, which are
defined as dispositional states that help explain why an agent chooses a
particular object in the presence of another option. So far, results on
infants’ understanding of preferences have come from experimental
situations in which the available evidence is straightforward, that is,
when an agent’s choice between two options is consistent. I will present
data showing when the agent chooses inconsistently between two options,
infants can use different consistency/inconsistency ratios to learn about
the agent's preferences. In addition, I will present data showing that
infants can also engage in transitive reasoning about preferences.
Together, these results demonstrate how general learning mechanisms,
statistical learning and transitive reasoning in particular, inform
infants' understanding about agents' preferences.
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
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Dear Colleagues
Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development 14 is just a few months
away. The symposium and paper submissions are now closed and we have our
last deadline just one week ahead. Send in your poster abstracts by
midnight CET (GMT+1) of October 14, 2013. Decision notifications will be
send out by October 28, 2013. Poster submission should be an abstract
(max 250 words).
Visit http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/index.php?menu=7 for further
details on poster submissions.
About the conference:
Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD14)
Conference Dates: January 9 -11, 2014
Central European University, Budapest
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
The registration for the conference is now open. Early discount fees are
available until 15 November 2013.
Please visit the conference website http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
to register and for more information on the program, registration fees,
fee waivers and submission instructions.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Daphné Bavelier, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Elisabetta Visalberghi, National Research Council, Italy
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Topic: The nature and consequences of children's concepts of social
groups.
Organizer & discussant: Gil Diesendruck, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS
Yarrow Dunham, Princeton University, USA
Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago, USA
Marjorie Rhodes, New York University, USA
Adam Rutland, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
PRE - CONFERENCE SESSION
Tobii Eye Tracking Presentation and Workshop.
Visit http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/index.php?menu=10 for more
details.
The pre conference session would be held at the conference venue from
9:00 am – 12:00 am, January 9, 2013.
We look forward to having you over here in Budapest.
Kind Regards,Rubeena Shamsudheen & Mikolaj Hernik
BCCCD14 Conference Chairs
PhD studentships are available for the doctoral program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU).
The Department of Cognitive Science at CEU invites applications for doctoral student positions starting in September 2014. This is a research-based training program in human cognition with social cognition and learning as core themes. Research topics include cooperation, communication, social learning, cultural transmission, embodied cognition, joint action, cognitive development, strategic decision-making, problem solving, visual cognition, sensory and statistical learning, visual psychophysics, computational neuroscience, and social cognitive neuroscience. Students will follow courses in cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive anthropology, computational cognition and linguistics, and will receive practical research training in the laboratories of the members of this new department. Faculty includes
Gergely CSIBRA
(cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience)
József FISER
(visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning)
György GERGELY
(infant cognition, developmental psychopathology)
Christophe HEINTZ
(culture and cognition, scientific cognition, behavioral economics)
Guenther KNOBLICH
(embodied cognition and social cognition, problem solving)
Ágnes M. KOVACS
(development of social cognition, theory of mind, mental representations)
Máté LENGYEL
(computational neuroscience, learning and memory)
Natalie SEBANZ
(social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience)
Dan SPERBER
(culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution)
Applicants are expected to hold an internationally recognized Master’s or comparable degree in the standard disciplines that constitute cognitive science. A comparable degree in other Social Sciences, Humanities, or other disciplines will also be considered in case of an excellent academic record. We will consider the applications of exceptional students who only hold a Bachelor degree, provided it is in a discipline closely associated to cognitive science.
Application deadline: January 23, 2014. For further details see
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/Admission
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CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a graduate research-intensive university located in Budapest, Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU enrolls more than 1500 students from more than 100 countries in its master's and doctoral programs. The teaching staff consists of more than 130 resident faculty from over 30 countries, and prominent visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction is English.