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
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
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
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
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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.
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
>
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
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.
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
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
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.