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
3 March 4:00 PM Room 226
Peter Mekis
Department of Logic, Institute of Philsophy
Eotvos University, Budapest
A kvantifikacio helyes kezelese a Tractatusban
(The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Wittgenstein's Tractatus)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/March/#1
(The complete March program will be announced soon!)
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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.
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
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TITLE: Emotional Responses to Music: The Need to Consider Underlying
Mechanisms
AUTHORS: Patrik N. Juslin and Daniel Vastfjall
ABSTRACT: Research indicates that people value music primarily because of
the emotions it evokes. Yet, the notion of musical emotions remains
controversial, and researchers have so far been unable to offer a
satisfactory account of such emotions. We argue that the study of musical
emotions has suffered from a neglect of underlying mechanisms.
Specifically, researchers have studied musical emotions without regard to
how they were evoked, or have assumed that the emotions must be based on
the 'default' mechanism for emotion induction, a cognitive
appraisal. Here, we present a novel theoretical framework featuring six
additional mechanisms through which music listening may induce emotions:
(a) Brain stem reflexes, (b) Evaluative conditioning, (c) Emotional
contagion, (d) Visual imagery, (e) Episodic memory, and (f) Musical
expectancy. We propose that these mechanisms differ concerning such
characteristics as their information focus, ontogenetic development, key
brain regions, cultural impact, induction speed, degree of volitional
influence, modularity, and dependence on musical structure. By
synthesizing theory and findings from different domains, we are able to
provide the first set of hypotheses that can help researchers to
distinguish among the mechanisms. We show that failure to control for the
underlying mechanism may lead to inconsistent or non-interpretable
findings. Thus, we argue that the new framework may guide future research
and help to resolve previous disagreements in the field. We conclude that
music evokes emotions through mechanisms that are not unique to music, and
that the study of musical emotions could benefit the emotion field as a
whole by providing novel paradigms for emotion induction.
KEYWORDS: Affect, Arousal, Brain, Emotion, Induction, Music, Mechanism,
Memory, Theory
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TITLE: Emotional Responses to Music: The Need to Consider Underlying
Mechanisms
AUTHORS: Patrik N. Juslin and Daniel Vastfjall
ABSTRACT: Research indicates that people value music primarily because of
the emotions it evokes. Yet, the notion of musical emotions remains
controversial, and researchers have so far been unable to offer a
satisfactory account of such emotions. We argue that the study of musical
emotions has suffered from a neglect of underlying mechanisms.
Specifically, researchers have studied musical emotions without regard to
how they were evoked, or have assumed that the emotions must be based on
the 'default' mechanism for emotion induction, a cognitive
appraisal. Here, we present a novel theoretical framework featuring six
additional mechanisms through which music listening may induce emotions:
(a) Brain stem reflexes, (b) Evaluative conditioning, (c) Emotional
contagion, (d) Visual imagery, (e) Episodic memory, and (f) Musical
expectancy. We propose that these mechanisms differ concerning such
characteristics as their information focus, ontogenetic development, key
brain regions, cultural impact, induction speed, degree of volitional
influence, modularity, and dependence on musical structure. By
synthesizing theory and findings from different domains, we are able to
provide the first set of hypotheses that can help researchers to
distinguish among the mechanisms. We show that failure to control for the
underlying mechanism may lead to inconsistent or non-interpretable
findings. Thus, we argue that the new framework may guide future research
and help to resolve previous disagreements in the field. We conclude that
music evokes emotions through mechanisms that are not unique to music, and
that the study of musical emotions could benefit the emotion field as a
whole by providing novel paradigms for emotion induction.
KEYWORDS: Affect, Arousal, Brain, Emotion, Induction, Music, Mechanism,
Memory, Theory
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Juslin-04132006/Referees/
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Best,
Tamas
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:59:30 +0200
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Subject: [Jewish Languages] final symposium announcement attached - this is the
last version
Dear all,
I am sending you our final symposium announcement as attachment so that you
can forward it or announce it. We added the keynote speakers and updated
the information, regarding the committee members.
Thanks and sincerely,
Senior Lecturer Derya Agis
Girne American University
Department of Translation and Interpreting
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Dear All,
Please find attached Marc A.Hight`s paper for next Tuesday`s talk.(26
February)
I`ve also saved it under: Offices on Jupiter/Home/Students (Q:)
/Philosophy
Best
Kriszta
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
Marc A. Hight (University of Tartu and Hampden-Sydney College)
on
'The Volitional Parts of Immaterial Minds'
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 4.30pm, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
The paper is an attempt to provide an intelligible model for Berkeley's
unusual theory of the relationship between minds and ideas by appealing
to insights from contemporary temporal parts theory (applied to
immaterialism).
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
The Department of Philosophy at CEU cordially invites you to
the Public Defense
of the PhD Dissertation
by
András Szigeti
on
" The Value of Responsibility"
The defense will be held on
Friday, 22. February, at 2.00 PM
in the
Senate room (main building 1st floor)
Central European University (CEU)
Examination Committee:
Chair: Katalin Farkas (Department of Philosophy, CEU)
Members
Ferenc Huoranszki (Department of Philosophy,CEU)
János Kis (Department of Philosophy,CEU)
Paul Russell (University of British Columbia)
The doctoral dissertation is available for inspection here
http://web.ceu.hu/phil/Szigetithesis.pdf
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
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
25 February 4:00 PM Room 226
Tamas Demeter
Institute for Philosophical Research, Budapest
Mentalis fikcionalizmus
(Mental fictionalism)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007-2008/February/#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/2007-2008/February/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
Dear All,
Upon some students` requests - because of a time conflict with a recently added Gender Studies lecture from 3.30 PM - the starting time of this lecture had to be changed.
Sorry about any inconveniences caused!
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The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
Iddo Landau (University of Haifa)
on
Should Marital Relations be Non-Hierarchical?
Issues in Distributive Justice and Love
5.10 PM, Tuesday, 19 February 2008, Gellner room (9. Nádor str. 1st floor)
ABSTRACT
The paper examines whether there is a justification for an egalitarian norm widely accepted today, which I call the Marital Non-Hierarchy Standard (MNHS). According to this standard, marital relationships should be non-hierarchical; neither partner may be more dominant than the other. If I want to spend our vacation on the hillside, and you prefer the beach, we should find an alternative that satisfies us both equally. The MNHS is exceptional: hierarchies are widely believed to be morally legitimate, within certain limits, in almost all associations, including many financial, professional, educational and recreational ones, in almost all spheres of life.
How might the MNHS be justified? It might be suggested that marital relations should be based on love, and love requires that lovers will have the same degree of power. However, philosophical analyses of love by, e.g., Solomon, Fisher, Kolodny, Soble or Newton-Smith, which present various characteristics as essential or typical of love, do not show that love excludes hierarchy. One can value one's partner, promote her interests, be attracted, committed, or dedicated to her, etc. while having unequal power to the loved one. Common experience, and the comparison of marital love to other types of love (e.g., parental, filial), also suggest that love does not exclude hierarchy.
It might also be suggested that justice requires that lovers will have equal power. However, theories of distributive justice such as Rawls's, Sen's, Dworkin's, Miller's, Nozick's, and almost all others do not justify the MNHS, because they stipulate proportional equality while the MNHS stipulates strict equality in actual power.
Thus, both the "love requirement" and almost all theories of distributive justice do not show that it is morally wrong to have non-MNHS relationships. Until other justifications of the MNHS are presented, it is unclear why it should be accepted.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
*ANNOUNCEMENT***
The New Bulgarian University is announcing the *15^th Summer School in
Cognitive Science* which will be held from *June 30 *till* July 19, 2008
*in *Sofia**, Bulgaria*.
The summer school features advanced courses for graduate students and
young researchers in a variety of areas, including cognitive modeling,
neurosciences, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.
The summer school this year will be extraordinary good and the lecturers
include famous researchers and price winners like *Magaret** Boden, Paul
Smolensky, Geraldine Legendre, Terry Regier, Brad Schlaggar, Eve Clark,
Herbert Clark, Jeffrey Elman*. This is a unique chance to learn about
the latest developments and big challenges first hand from those who
move the boundaries of the unknown in cognitive science.
Decisions for admission are made on a case by case and first come first
served bases. Therefore the earlier you apply the better. We have
applicants from all over the world and almost half of the places in the
summer school are already filled in, so hurry up!
For more information: http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2008.html
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.bg <mailto:school@cogs.nbu.bg>
Best regards,
The Organizational Team,
P.S. We will be grateful if you could disseminate the information as
wide as possible and if you encourage other students to apply!
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Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo, Str.
Sofia 1618 Bulgaria
phone: (+3592) 8110401
fax: (+3592) 8110421
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.bg <mailto:school@cogs.nbu.bg>