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by Rago Anett

Tisztelt Kollégák! Ezúton közvetítem az ELTE PPK Kognitív Tanszékének meghívóját a 'Kognitív péntek' c. előadássorozat következő rendezvényére, melynek témája: Czigler István: Mire jó a "vizuális tudattalan"? és Horváth János: Elterelődés és eseményhez kötött potenciálok az előadások időpontja: április 24. 13 óra helyszín: Izabella u. 46. 216. terem üdvözlettel, Ragó Anett -- Ragó, Anett rago(a)cogpsyphy.hu INSTITUTE for PSYCHOLOGY Hungarian Academy of Sciences H- 1068 Budapest, Szondi utca 83-85 36/1-3542390

17 years, 2 months

invitation to a philosophy talk

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a lecture by Thomas Pink (King's College, London)) on Promising and Moral Personality Friday,17 April, 5.00 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT What is the basis of promising and the obligation to keep promises? Is promising founded on human nature itself or is it, as Hume thought, the product of convention? The paper will argue that Hume's conventionalist approach is incoherent. The basis of promissory obligation is instead natural, and lies in two very different and contrasting aspects of human nature. Besides Hume there will be critical discussion of the theories of Grotius, Raz and Finnis, and of what a natural law account of the morality of a practice such as promising might involve. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

17 years, 2 months

Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Ferenc Huoranszki

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 226 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf 20 April 4:00 PM Room 226 Ferenc Huoranszki Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest A Dispositionalist Analysis of Causation Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/April/#3 ___________________________________ 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/2008-2009/April/poster.pdf Please feel free to post it in your institution! 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 Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University, Budapest http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

17 years, 2 months

On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution: Invitation to Comment

by Stevan Harnad

Dear all, I've written a summary and critique of Jerry Fodor's critique of Darwin's principle of Natural Selection and posted it on CogPrints: http://cogprints.org/6417/ I've also launched a discussion Forum at Philpapers and invite discussion there: http://philpapers.org/browse/38/thread.pl?tId=202 (If you are not yet registered to Philpapers, it would be a good idea to register as this site is now on the way to becoming an important one for serious scholarly discussion of philosophical topics.) Best wishes, Stevan Harnad --- On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution http://philpapers.org/browse/38/thread.pl?tId=202 Stevan Harnad I would like to invite discussion on my paper, On Fodor on Darwin On Evolution, which is a critique of Jerry Fodor's Hugues Leblanc Lectures at UQAM on "What Darwin Got Wrong" (Fodor, forthcoming; Fodor & Piatelli-Palmarini, forthcoming). Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have happened") and because (2) only minds can select. Hence Darwin's analogy with "artificial selection" by animal breeders was misleading, and evolutionary explanation is nothing but post-hoc historical narrative. I argue that Darwin was right on all counts. Until Darwin's "tautology," it had been believed that either (a) a god had created all organisms as they are, or (b) organisms had always been as they are. Darwin revealed instead that (c) organisms have heritable traits that evolved across time through random variation, with survival and reproduction in (changing) environments determining (mindlessly) which variants were successfully transmitted to the next generation. This not only provided the (true) alternative (c), but also the methodology for investigating which traits had been adaptive, how and why; it also led to the discovery of the genetic mechanism of the encoding, variation and evolution of heritable traits. Fodor also draws erroneous conclusions from the analogy between Darwinian evolution and Skinnerian reinforcement learning. Fodor's skepticism about both evolution and learning may be motivated by an overgeneralization of Chomsky's "poverty of the stimulus argument" -- from the origin of Universal Grammar (UG) to the origin of the "concepts" underlying word meaning, which, Fodor thinks, must be "endogenous," rather than evolved or learned.

17 years, 2 months

Meghívó - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat - vita Demeter Tamással

by Forgács Bálint

Kedves Érdeklődők! Mindenkit szeretettel várunk április 27-én hétfőn, 13 órakor a tanszéki szemináriumunkra, ahol dr. Demeter Tamás (MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézet) Mentális fikcionalizmus című könyvét vitatnák meg a szerzővel. Helyszín: BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszéke, ST épület 320, Stoczek utca 2. 1111 Budapest. A mű a népi pszichológia elmefilozófiájával foglalkozik, és amellett érvel, hogy a népi pszichológia fikció. Hamarosan két recenzió és egy rövid összefoglaló is rendelkezésre fog állni a http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=75 linken. Üdvözlettel, Forgács Bálint Attila Keresztes <keresztes.attila(a)gmail.com> írta (2009. április 10. 8:27): > A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit tanszéki > szemináriumsorozatának következő előadására: > > Április 20., hétfő, 12:00-13:00, BME, XI., Stoczek u. 2., St. ép., 320.-as > terem. > > Kovács Ágnes Melinda > Marie Curie Research Fellow, MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet, Összehasonlító > Viselkedéskutató Csoport > > Automatikus tudatelméleti képességek felnőtteknél és csecsemőknél > > Absztrakt és bővebb info: > http://cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=77 > > Keresztes Attila > > -- > Attila Keresztes > > Budapest University of Technology and Economics > Dept. Of Cognitive Science, > Stoczek u. 2, Budapest > 1111, Hungary > Tel & Fax: +36 1 4631072 >

17 years, 2 months

Meghívó - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit tanszéki szemináriumsorozatának *következo" elo"adásá*ra: Április 20., hétfo", 12:00-13:00, BME, XI., Stoczek u. 2., St. ép., 320.-as terem. *Kovács Ágnes Melinda* Marie Curie Research Fellow, MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet, Összehasonlító Viselkedéskutató Csoport/ / /Automatikus tudatelméleti képességek felno"tteknél és csecsemo"knél/ /**/ *Absztrakt és bo"vebb info:* http://cogsci.bme.hu/Esem.php?esemIndex=77 Keresztes Attila -- Attila Keresztes Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. Of Cognitive Science, Stoczek u. 2, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel & Fax: +36 1 4631072

17 years, 2 months

additional CDC seminar

by Gergely Csibra

Cognitive Development Center, CEU There will be an additional seminar at 3pm on Tuesday, April 7th (note the unusual date and time) by Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) Title: Towards the understanding of developmental dyslexia Venue: Department of Philosophy, CEU Room 412 Zrinyi u. 14. Everyone is welcome to attend.

17 years, 2 months

LOGIC, LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS - CALL FOR PAPERS

by Laszlo E. Szabo

CALL FOR PAPERS As part of the annual conference series “LANGUAGE, UNDERSTANDING, INTERPRETATION”, the Philosophy Institute of Eotvos University and the MTA-ELTE Philosophy of Language Research Group announces its conference entitled LOGIC, LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa Date: September 17-19, 2009. Location: Muzeum krt. 4/i Budapest, Hungary Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2009 Confirmed plenary speakers: Hajnal Andreka (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics) Ferenc Csaba (Eotvos University Budapest) Gabor Forrai (University of Miskolc) Gyula Klima (Fordham University) Andras Mate (Eotvos University Budapest) Tamas Mihalydeak (University of Debrecen) Istvan Nemeti (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics) Laszlo Polos (University of Durham (GB)) Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale University) Anna Szabolcsi (New York University) The conference is held in memory of Imre Ruzsa (1921-2008), the father of modern philosophical logic in Hungary. His professional interests centered around modal logic, intensional logic, modeling natural language in systems of intensional logic, and the foundations of logic and mathematics. He always thought of his generalization of A. N. Prior’s concept of semantic value gaps to quantified, intensional and type-theoretic systems as his most important contribution to logic. He was the author of three books in English (Modal Logic with Descriptions, The Hague, 1982, Intensional Logic Revisited, Budapest, 1991, Introduction to Metalogic, Budapest, 1993), several monographs and textbooks in Hungarian, and many articles in leading logic journals. Several of Imre Ruzsa’s former students from across the globe will gather to discuss his legacy, and also to present on some of his favorite themes, topics, and areas—we invite you to do the same. Contributions for 20-minute panel-presentations are sought in the following areas: modal and intensional logics; logics with truth value gaps; metalogic; Frege’s philosophy of language and mathematics; Tarski’s theory of truth; and more broadly in philosophical logic, mathematical logic, formal semantics, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of language. Plenary talks will be in English; some of the afternoon panels are held in English, some in Hungarian. Graduate students are encouraged to submit. Contributors are asked to submit the following in an email attachment: (1) the title of their presentation (in the language in which they plan to present), (2) a 15-line abstract, (3) school/institute affiliation, and (4) e-mail address. Submissions should be sent to ruzsaconf(a)phil.elte.hu Yours sincerely, the organizing committee of the conference: Janos Kelemen, president Andras Mate, co-president Tibor Barany Peter Mekis Janos Tozser Zsofia Zvolenszky -- 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

17 years, 2 months

Is logic universal? Call for papers

by Jean-Yves Beziau

Is logic universal? Call for papers Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis (Birkhauser/Springer) http://www.birkhauser.ch/LU There will be a special issue of the journal logica universalis dedicated to the question "Is logic universal?" Many questions are connected to this issue: 1. Do all human beings have the same capicity of reasoning? Does a man, a woman, a child, a papuan, a yuppie, reason in the same way? 2. Does reasoning evolve? Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago? In the future will human beings reason in the same way? Did computers change our way to reason? Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ? 3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation? Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy? 4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings? 5. Is there any absolute true way of reaoning ? Any contibutions dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic universal?" is welcome. Submit your paper to universal.logic(a)ufc.br before August 31st 2009

17 years, 2 months

Postdoctoral Research Positions at CEU, Budapest, Hungary

by Gergely Csibra

Postdoctoral Research Positions in Early Social Cognition Cognitive Developmental Center Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary Directed by Professors Gergely Csibra and György Gergely We have funding for two postdoctoral positions, starting from September 2009 (or when filled), to work collaboratively on research on social cognition in infants and toddlers. Specific questions of investigation include early understanding of ostensive referential communication, the development and representation of artifacts and natural kind concepts, mechanisms of cultural transmission of generic knowledge, and action understanding and representing other minds in normally developing and autistic children, using behavioral, eye- tracking and electrophysiological (EEG and ERP) techniques. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in psychology or a related field, and a strong record of prior research accomplishments. Familiarity with eye- tracking or electrophysiological methodology is an advantage. Interested persons should send a cover letter stating research interest, a CV, and contact address for 3 references to Human Resources Office, Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9., Hungary, e-mail: hro(a)ceu.hu. We encourage electronic applications. We will start reviewing applications in mid-April, 2009. Informal inquiries about the positions could be addressed to Professor György Gergely (gergelygy(a)ceu.hu) or to Professor Gergely Csibra (csibrag(a)ceu.hu ). CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a graduate research-intensive university specializing primarily in the social sciences, located in Budapest, Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU's primary mission is to promote academic excellence, state of the art research and civic commitment, so as to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and Eastern Europe. CEU offers both master's and doctoral programs, and it enrolls about 1500 students from nearly 100 countries. The teaching staff consists of more then 130 resident faculty from more than 30 countries, and a large number of prominent visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction is English.

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