THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Wednesday 5:00 PM (!!!) Room 226 Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
!!!!! Please note the change in day and time !!!!!
September Program
23 September 5:00 PM Room 226
Geier János
Stereo Vision Ltd., Budapest
Szemantikai értékrés Cantor édenkertjének égboltján – avagy mi az, amit
megmentett Hilbert?
(Semantic value gap on the firmament of Cantor’s paradise – What has
Hilbert managed to save?)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/September/#4
30 September 5:00 PM Room 226
Tihamér Margitay
Department of Philosophy and the History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
A meghatározás meghatározása - Egy radikális kompatibilista
szabadságfelfogás
(Free Action as the Determination of Determination - An Uncompromising
Compatibilist Proposal)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/September/#5
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The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes!
Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60
minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian.
A printable poster is available from here:
http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2009-2010/September/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
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
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
Logic, Language, Mathematics
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
Budapest, September 17-19, 2009
Venue: Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Philosophy
Budapest VIII., Múzeum krt. 4. bld. "i"
More information: http://phil.elte.hu/ruzsaconf
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SCHEDULE
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Thursday, September 17
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Opening Session
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11:00-11:30
Opening
11:30-12:30
In Memory of Imre Ruzsa
An Overview on his Life and Work
András Máté - Tamás Mihálydeák
Plenary Lectures
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14:00-14:50
Natural Logic, Medieval Logic and Formal Semantics
Gyula Klíma
15:00-15:50
Whose Logic is Three-valued Logic?
Ferenc Csaba
16:00-16:50
Modal Constructions in Sociological Arguments
László Pólos
Keynote Lecture
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17:30-19:00
Quantifiers and Admissible Propositions
Robert Goldblatt
Friday, September 18
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
Analogy in Semantics
László Kálmán
10:00-10:50
Certain Verbs Are Syntactically Explicit Quantifiers
Anna Szabolcsi
11:00-11:50
The Treatment of Ordinary Quantification in English Proper
András Kornai
13:30-14:20
Exporting Methods from the Foundation of Mathematics to the Foundation
of Relativity Theory
Hajnal Andréka and István Németi
English Session 1
-----------------
14:30-15:00
Logic and Language of Relativity Theories
Gergely Székely
15:00-15:30
Visualizations of Relativity, Relativistic Hypercomputing
Renáta Tordai
15:30-16:00
Comparing Relativistic and Newtonian Dynamics in First Order Logic
Judit X. Madarász
16:00-16:30
On Field's Nominalization of Physical Theories
Máté Szabó
English Session 2
-----------------
16:45-17:15
Plural Grundgesetze
Francesca Boccuni
17:15-17:45
The Reference of Numerals in Frege
Edward Kanterian
17:45-18:15
Grasping the Conceptual Difference between János Bolyai's and
Lobachevskii's Notions of Non-Euclidean Parallelism
János Tanács
Hungarian Session 1
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14:30-15:00
A matematikai tudás eukleidészi modelljének kritikája Lakatos Imre
filozófiájában
Golden Dániel
15:00-15:30
Tarski és a deflácionizmus
Kocsis László
15:30-16:00
Szemantikai értékrés Cantor mennyországának égboltján - avagy mi az,
amit megmentett Hilbert?
Geier János
16:00-16:30
Kontextuális kétdimenziós szemantika
Kovács János
Hungarian Session 2
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16:45-17:15
A logika iskolai tanulásának első lépései
Kiss Olga - Munkácsy Katalin
17:15-17:45
Az empirikus tudományok teoretizálási törekvéseiről
Madaras Lászlóné
17:45-18:15
Kísérlet a tulajdonnevek vizsgálatára a különböző hipertextnarratívák
esetében
Szopos András
Reception
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19:00 -
Cogito ceremony
(Kossuth Klub, Muzeum u. 7)
Saturday, September 19
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
In Defense of Hermeneutic Fictionalism
Gábor Forrai
10:00-10:50
Relativity and Modal Logic
Robin Hirsch
11:00-11:50
Tasks and Ultra-tasks
Zoltán Szabó Gendler
12:00-12:50
Neo-Fregeanism: Revising Frege's Notion of Identity in the Philosophy of
Language and Mathematics
Mihály Makkai
14:00-14:50
Many-Dimensional Modal Logics
Ági Kurucz
English Session 3
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15:00-15:30
Prior and the Limits of \emph{de Re Temporal Possibility
Márta Ujvári
15:30-16:00
The Indispensability of Logic
Nenad Miscevic
16:00-16:30
Fitch's Paradox and Natural Deduction System for Modal Logic
Edi Pavlovic
English Session 4
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16:45-17:15
Premise Semantics and Possible Worlds Semantics for Counterfactuals
Vladan Djordjevic
17:15-17:45
Counterfactuals, Context, and Knowledge
Jelena Ostojic
17:45-18:15
Aristotle's Wheel and Galileo's Mistake
Nenad Filipovic, Una Stojnic \& Vladan Djordjevic
English Session 5
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15:00-15:30
On the So-Called Dependent (Embedded) Questions
Anna Brozek
15:30-16:00
Partiality and Tichys Transparent Intensional Logic: Solutions to
Selected Issues
Jiri Raclavsky
16:00-16:30
Names are Not Rigid
Hanoch Ben-Yami
English Session 6
-----------------
16:45-17:15
'Upgrades' and 'Updates': from Degrees of Belief to the Dynamics of
Epistemic Logic
András Benedek
17:15-17:45
Ruzsa on Quine's Argument against Modal Logic
Zsófia Zvolenszky
17:45-18:15
Definite Descriptions in Dynamic Predicate Logic
Péter Mekis
MEGHÍVÓ
Az Erasmus Kollégium Nyelv - nyelvfilozófia - nyelvi ismeretterjesztés
kutatócsoportja szeretettel várja Önt
"Semmi nincs úgy 2."
című
nyilvános konferenciájára.
Időpont: Szeptember 8., kedd, 10-1730
Helyszín: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet (Bp., VI., Benczúr u. 33.),
földszinti előadóterem
"Semmi nincs úgy 2."
1. ... a kognitív pszichológiában
10:00 - 10:15 Csibra Gergely: A szavak természete csecsemőkorban:
asszociációs vagy referenciális jelek?
10:15 - 10:25 vita
10:25 - 10:40 Takács Boglárka: Nem az, aminek látszik
10:40 - 10:50 vita
10:50 - 11:00 kávészünet
2. ... a nyelvfilozófiában
11:00 - 11:15 Somodi Gergő: Metafora és perlokúció
11:15 - 11:25 vita - vitaindító: Pete Krisztián
11:25 - 11:40 Pete Krisztián: A "what is said" pragmatikai dimenziói
11:40 - 11:50 vita - vitaindító: Somodi Gergő
11:50 - 12:05 Forrai Gábor: Matematika mint metafora
12:05 - 12:15 vita - vitaindító: Márton Miklós
12:15 - 12:30 szünet
12:30 - 12:45 Bárány Tibor: Az intenzionalitás mint az intencionalitás
elégséges feltétele
12:45 - 12:55 vita - vitaindító: Gyarmathy Zsófia
12:55 - 13:10 Zvolenszky Zsófia: A szükségszerűség ezer arca
13:10 - 13:20 vita - vitaindító: Bárány Tibor
13:20 - 14:40 ebédszünet
3. ... a sumer nyelvben
14:40 - 14:55 Sövegjártó Szilvia: A sumer allatív poliszémia
14:55 - 15:05 vita - vitaindító: Zólyomi Gábor
15:05 - 15:20 Tanos Bálint: Teljes igei reduplikáció és igei
pluralitás a sumerben történeti-tipológiai megközelítésben
15:20 - 15:30 vita - vitaindító: Zólyomi Gábor
15:30 - 15:45 Zólyomi Gábor: Biklauzális létigés szerkezetek a sumerben
15:45 - 15:55 vita - vitaindító: Sövegjártó Szilvia
15:55 - 16:10 kávészünet
4. ... a nyelvtudományban
16:10 - 16:25 Molnár Cecília Sarolta: Hogyhogy hogyhogy?
16:25 - 16:35 vita - vitaindító: Kálmán László
16:35 - 16:50 Kálmán László: Analógia és szemantika
16:50 - 17:00 vita - vitaindító: Molnár Cecília Sarolta
17:00 - 17:15 Komlósi Boglárka: Az iróniakutatás elméleti dilemmái a
pragmatikában
17:15 - 17:25 vita - vitaindító: Molnár Cecília Sarolta
-------- Eredeti üzenet --------
Tárgy: Meghívó M. Posner elo"adására
Dátum: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:38:25 +0200
Feladó: Czigler Istvan <czigler(a)cogpsyphy.hu>
Szervezet: Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Címzett: mindenkutato(a)mtapi.hu
*MEGHÍVÓ*
*Michael Posner* (emeritus professor of neuroscience, Oregon University)
elo"adást tart
*The development of attentional networks *címmel
_Ido"pont_: 2009. szeptember 15, 17 óra.
_Helyszín_: MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet, Bp. XIII. Victor Hugo u.
18-22, alagsori elo"adóterem.
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*
*Michael Posner* (emeritus professor of neuroscience, Oregon University)
elo"adást tart
*The development of attentional networks *címmel
_Ido"pont_: 2009. szeptember 15, 17 óra.
_Helyszín_: MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet, Bp. XIII. Victor Hugo u.
18-22, alagsori elo"adóterem.
>> http://www.ceu.hu/events/showevent/7784
Kedves Kollegak,
Julius 30.-an a CEU-ban mutatjuk be a Tom Glick (Boston University)
szerkeszteseben megjelent Darwin evi kotetet az europai Darwin recepciokrol,
ket magyar vonatkozasu torteneti cikk is van benne.
Mindenkit szeretettel varunk,
udv kgy
The last talk in the CEU Cognitive Development Center seminar series
this academic year will be given by
Eugenio Parise (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Leipzig)
Title:
Object and speech processing in 5-month-olds
Date and time:
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 5.00 pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1015+Budapest,+Budapest,+Hattyu+utca+14,+Hung…
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Our seminars start on time and we may not be able to let latecomers in.
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TITLE: The Evolution of Misbelief
AUTHORS: Ryan T. McKay & Daniel C. Dennett
ABSTRACT: From an evolutionary standpoint, a default presumption is that true beliefs are adaptive
and misbeliefs maladaptive. But if humans are biologically engineered to appraise the world
accurately and to form true beliefs, how are we to explain the routine exceptions to this rule? How
can we account for mistaken beliefs, bizarre delusions and instances of self-deception? We explore
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KEYWORDS: Adaptive, Belief, Delusions, Design, Evolution, Misbelief, Positive illusions, Religion,
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Kedves Kollégák,
A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit ünnepi
doktori konferenciájára:
Június 29-30, hétfő-kedd, 10:00-16:00, BME Oktatói klub, K ép.,I. em.,
66-os terem.
Előadnak a doktori iskola hallgatói. Az előadások nyelve angol.
*Program és bővebb info:*
http://cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=83
Dear Colleagues,
The BME Department of Cognitive Sciences invites you to a Psychology
Doctoral Conference Celebrating the 5th year of the Psychology PhD
school at BME, Department of Cognitive Science:
Monday-Tuesday, 29-30 June, 10:00-16:00, BME Oktatói klub, K ép.,
1stfloor, room 66.
Presentations are in English, presenters are the PhD Students of the
department.
*Program & more information:*
http://cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=83
--
Ferenc Kemény
PhD Student
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Department of Cognitive Science,
Stoczek u. 2,
Budapest,
1111, Hungary
Tel & Fax: +36 1 4631072
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Richard Aslin (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Rochester)
Title:
Statistical learning and rule learning in infants and adults: From
exemplars to categories
Date and time:
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 5.00 pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
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