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
23 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Erno Teglas
Research Institute for Psychology
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Kvantorok hasznalata preverbalis csecsemoknel
(Quantification by pre-verbal infants)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#4
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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/2008-2009/March/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
**** Reminder: INNS Award nominations ****
INNS (International Neural Networks Society; http://www.inns.org)
has a well established awards program, designed to recognize
individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of
Neural Networks. Up to three awards, one in each of the following
categories, are presented annually at IJCNN to senior individuals
for outstanding contributions made to the field of Neural Networks.
The Hebb Award - recognizes achievement in biological learning.
The Helmholtz Award - recognizes achievement in sensation/perception.
The Gabor Award - recognizes achievement in engineering/application.
In addition, there is the Young Investigator Award: up to two awards
are presented annually to individuals with no more than five years
postdoctoral experience and who are under forty years of age, for
significant contributions to the field of Neural Networks.
The INNS Awards Committee is now inviting nominations for the 2010
Hebb, Helmholtz, and Gabor awards as well as the Young Investigator
awards. You can find the details of the nomination procedure on the INNS
Web page: http://www.inns.org; please click on "awards program".
I would urge you to think of highly qualified candidates and send in
formal nominations for them (see the INNS web page for the
instructions).
Please email the nominations (along with attachments) directly to the
chair of the Awards Committee at rsun(a)rpi.edu by April 1, 2009.
Ron Sun
Chair, Awards Committee
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Professor Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, NY 12180, USA
phone: 518-276-3409
fax: 518-276-3017
email: rsun(a)rpi.edu
web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
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The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Roger Teichmann (St Hilda's College, Oxford University)
on
Is Pleasure a Good?
Tuesday, 17 March, 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
Abstract:
The idea that pleasure as such is good (or a good) faces various problems. One is that people can take pleasure in nasty things, such as cruelty: it seems wrong to say that in such cases the pleasure is good, only the activity and its effects being bad. Connected with this point is another one, to do with the relation of pleasure to the activities (or states) that give pleasure. A number of philosophers have correctly argued that pleasure is not a separable sensation or quasi-sensation, common to pleasant activities; rather, 'Jones finds X pleasant/pleasurable' amounts (roughly) to 'Jones enjoys doing/experiencing X'. And this poses a clear problem for the view that pleasure is a good, when this view is re-expressed as the view that 'It's pleasant' gives a prima facie adequate answer to 'Why do you want (to do) that?'. For enjoying and wanting are very close cousins; so if 'It's pleasant' amounts to 'I enjoy it', then it seems that it could hardly give an informative answer to 'Why do you want (to do) that?'.
I argue that the solution of these difficulties lies in examining the sorts of answer that can be given to 'What's pleasant about that?'. Answers to this question may relate to features of the activity itself, not merely to the psychology and habits of the agent. But in saying in what ways e.g. stamp-collecting is fun, I do not thereby present stamp-collecting as a means to anything further; rather, I adduce facts about stamp-collecting that might make sense of one's going in for stamp-collecting for its own sake. This phrase, 'make sense of', is evidently the crucial one.
Light is cast on such topics as nasty pleasures, addictive vs. non-addictive pleasures, the nature of hedonism, etc. - and a decent, though fairly modest, sense is found for the natural claim that pleasure is a non-instrumental good.
The CEU Philosophy Department Cordially invites you to a discussion:
Anscombe on Perception
in which Elizabeth Anscombe's paper
The Intentionality of Perception
will be discussed by
Roger Teichmann (St Hilda's College, Oxford University), author of The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (OUP 2008)
and
Howard Robinson (CEU), author of Perception (Routledge 1994)
Wednesday, 18 March, 2009, 11.00 AM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
Attached are Anscombe's paper and a short introduction to the debate by Tomasz Budek (Doctoral Candidate, CEU). The relevant chapters of Teichmann's and Robinson's books can be found on the CEU common drive Q: (Offices on 'Jupiter\Home\Students'), namely, Q:/Philosophy/Anscombe.
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
16 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Nenad Miscevic
Department of Philosophy, University of Maribor
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
The genealogy of intuitions
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2008-2009/March/#3
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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/2008-2009/March/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
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Marcel Brass (Psychology, Gent)
Title:
Shared representations of self and other: from visuo-motor priming to
joint action
Date and time:
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 5.30 pm
CEU Philosophy Department
Room 412, Zrinyi u. 14, 1051 Budapest
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Gergely Csibra
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to the next screening
of its Philm Club series:
"Jacob's Ladder"
1990, directed by Adrian Lyne, 115 min.
Friday, March 6, 6:00 p.m.
TIGy Room, Nador 11 Courtyard
The Philm Club aims at screening and discussing movies that raise
philosophically relevant issues in accessible as well as entertaining ways.
Find out more on the club's blog: http://philmclub.wordpress.com/
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
