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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM, March

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM Institute for Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium Program: March 2007 !!! Notice that the location of the Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium is: Puskin u. 3. !!! 5 March 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Janos Farkas Institute for Philosophical Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Megjeleno mozgas es igaz mozgas (Apparent motion vs. true motion) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2007/March/#1 12 March 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Miklos Marton Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences Eotvos University A mentalis antirealizmus eselyei (Perspectives of mental anti-realism) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2007/March/#2 19 March 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Gabor Kutrovatz Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University Demarkacia-problema, hatarmunkalatok, publikus tudomanyfelfogas (Demarcation problem, crossing borders, public understanding of science) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2007/March/#3 26 March 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3) Nenad Miscevic Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest Philosophy, University of Maribor Thought experiments, inference and apriority Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2007/March/#4 ___________________________________ Format of the colloquium: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute break, followed by a 30-60 minute discussion.The language of presentation is English or Hungarian. The Colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes. A printable poster is available from here: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2007/March/poster.pdf Please feel free to post it in your institution! The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

19 years, 4 months

Announcement of THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Announcement of THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM The weekly Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium (TPC) is organized and hosted by the Institute for Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of Eotvos University. Following the traditions set by the Philosophy of Science Colloquium hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Faculty of Sciences, Eotvos University) between 1999 and 2006, it aims to bring together not only the Budapest philosophy community working on a wide range of theoretical philosophy, but also scientists interested in philosophical and foundational problems of natural and social sciences. The scope of the Colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical philosophy, including: * logic and philosophy of mathematics * philosophy of science * modern metaphysics * epistemology * philosophy of language * problems in history of philosophy and history of science, relevant to the above topics * particular issues in natural and social sciences, important for the discourses in the main scope of the Colloquium. Format of the colloquium: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute break, followed by a 30-60 minute discussion.The language of presentation is English or Hungarian. The Colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes. The regular venue: Monday 4:00 PM, Room 208, Puskin u. 3, Budapest. (Notice the difference in location between TPC and the earlier Philosophy of Science Colloquium!!!! The Colloquium will start in March 2007. Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium For any further information, please, contact the organizer: Laszlo E. Szabo (e-mail: leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu). -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

19 years, 4 months

Barbey & Sloman/Base-rate respect: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Barbey-0605… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than March 12, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: Base-rate Respect: From Ecological Rationality to Dual Processes AUTHOR: Aron K. Barbey and Steven A. Sloman ABSTRACT: The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another more controversial arena concerns human rationality. In this paper, we attempt to unpack the perspectives in the literature on both kinds of issues and evaluate their ability to explain existing data and their conceptual coherence. We will conclude that the best account of the data should be framed in terms of a dual-process model of judgment that attributes base-rate neglect to associative judgment strategies that fail to adequately represent the set structure of the problem. Base-rate neglect is reduced when problems are presented in a format that affords accurate representation in terms of nested sets of individuals. KEYWORDS: Base-rate neglect, Probability judgment, Bayesian reasoning, Dual process theory, Nested set hypothesis FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Barbey-06052006/Referees/ ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Barbey-0605… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than March 12, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years, 4 months

Barbey & Sloman/Base-rate respect: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Barbey-0605… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than March 12, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: Base-rate Respect: From Ecological Rationality to Dual Processes AUTHOR: Aron K. Barbey and Steven A. Sloman ABSTRACT: The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another more controversial arena concerns human rationality. In this paper, we attempt to unpack the perspectives in the literature on both kinds of issues and evaluate their ability to explain existing data and their conceptual coherence. We will conclude that the best account of the data should be framed in terms of a dual-process model of judgment that attributes base-rate neglect to associative judgment strategies that fail to adequately represent the set structure of the problem. Base-rate neglect is reduced when problems are presented in a format that affords accurate representation in terms of nested sets of individuals. KEYWORDS: Base-rate neglect, Probability judgment, Bayesian reasoning, Dual process theory, Nested set hypothesis FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Barbey-06052006/Referees/ ================================================================== *** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Barbey-0605… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than March 12, 2007 NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years, 4 months

György Gergely's talk at CEU

by Jakab Zoltán

Dear Everyone, After two unfortunate events that earlier prevented this talk now we are really going to have it. All are welcome! Zoltán György Gergely Institute for Psychological Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences *Learning 'about' versus learning 'from other minds: * *The role of ostensive cues in triggering pedagogical knowledge transfer in human infants*** Tuesday, 6 March, 2007, 5 PM CEU Department of Philosophy, 1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14, 4th floor, rm. 412.** * Abstract* By the end of their first year human infants start to exhibit a number of species-unique social cognitive competences (such as social referencing, imitative learning of novel means, or proto-declarative pointing) that involve triadic interactions in ostensive communicative cuing contexts. The currently dominant interpretation of these early social-cognitive phenomena assumes that their primary function is to serve /social motives/ (such as intersubjective sharing of mental states). In this talk I shall contrast this view with an alternative interpretation based on the theory of human 'pedagogy' (Csibra & Gergely, 2006; Gergely & Csibra, 2005, 2006) which assumes that ostensively cued triadic interactions serve primarily the /epistemic /function of transferring new and relevant cultural knowledge about referents to infants. The theory argues that others' referential manifestations during triadic interactions are typically framed by specific types of /ostensive-communicative cues/ for which infants show early sensitivity and preference. These include eye-contact, contingent turn-taking reactivity, the prosodic intonation pattern of motherese,/ /and/ /addressing infants by their own name/./ Such ostensive cues trigger in infants the interpretation that the other exhibits a communicative intention addressed to them to manifest new and relevant information for them to fast learn about the referent. It is hypothesized that ostensive cues can act as an 'interpretation switch' directing infants to construe others' referential knowledge manifestations as pedagogical 'teaching' events. I shall review recent evidence from studies of relevance-guided selective imitative learning and of infants' differential interpretation of others' referential emotion expressions during the second year that provide convergent empirical support for the hypothesized interpretation-modulating role of ostensive cuing in early infancy.

19 years, 4 months

invitation to a philosophy talk - date correction 14. February

by Krisztina Biber

The Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk by Dmitriy Vinnik (SEP fellow, CEU Philosophy Department, Institiute of Philosophy and Law,Russian Academy of Science) on "The criteria of personal identity in property dualism framework" Wednesday, 14. February,, 5.00 PM , Philosophy Department Zrinyi str. 14 /room 412 Abstract: Due to the nonreductionist form of property dualistic conceptions we can not reduce the problem of personal identity only to the relevance of usage of one type of criteria (physical or psychological). It is plausible that brain and memory criteria are necessary but not enough to solve the problem of personal identity. Such objections against the relevance of these criteria known as reduplication argument and circularity objection (relatively) are serious and cant be ignored. An attempts to defend brain and memory criteria in a simple form are being described. These attempts known as simple view and quasi-memory conception. Simple view is a contemporary form of classical metaphysical conception of nonobservable mental ego. A great number of contemporary dualistic conceptions implies this point of view or contain it unobviously. This conception is irrelevant for predicate or conceptual dualism but seems plausible for property dualism, double-aspect theory and neutral monism. Despite to the contemporary character of this argumentation this kind of standpoint may be found out in cartesian and kantians philosophy. The notion of quasi-memory was suggested as rather sophisticated attempt to solve the pure logical, not essential mind-body problem. This problem derives from the Humes notion of mental subject. However even Hume used this notion in some unobvious way because his concept of mental content is transubjective. The analysis of relationships between physical and mental criteria is very topical. This criteria has to be used as a pare in property dualism. By the way in the other forms of nonproductive physicalism one of criterias may be successfully excluded. In supervenient theories the physical criteria plays more fundamental role. In functionalism, for example, physical criteria is not necessary at all, since we are acknowledge the conceptual dualistic character of functionalism as a form of the token-identity theory. It is evident that the choice of several criteria depends of ontological premises However the concepts of nonobservable mental subject and transubjective mental content cant be airily ignored when philosophers try to solve the problem of personal identity and the problem of unity of consciousness. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

19 years, 4 months

MAKOG regisztrációs határido január 8.

by MAKOG

Kedves Lehetséges Résztvevõk, 15. alkalommal kerül megrendezésre a MAKOG konferencia, melynek témája "modell és valóság". A konferencia helyszíne Eger, idõpontja 2007. január 19-21. A regisztráció határideje január 8. Regisztráció és részletes információ a http://makog.cogpsyphy.hu honlapon található. Kérdéseikkel bátran fordulhatnak a szervezõkhöz (makog(a)cogpsyphy.hu e-mail címen). Minden kedves elõadót és érdeklõdõt sok szeretettel várunk! A szervezõk Dr.Czigler István Háden Gábor Péter Pató Lívia Gabriella Stefanics Gábor

19 years, 4 months

From Budapest to Brussels: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Signs EC OA Petition

by Stevan Harnad

Dear Colleagues, Please pardon me a moment of Pannonian pride: It is mete and fitting that the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Professor E. Sylvester Vizi, has today signed the Petition in support of the European Commission's proposed Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate, on behalf of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://www.ec-petition.eu/ The Open Access Movement began in Budapest in December 2001 as the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), launched by the Hungarian philanthropist, George Soros and the Open Society Institute (OSI). http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ OA has since become a global movement and is now accelerating rapidly toward the critical step that will usher in Open Access to all research output worldwide, starting in Europe with the EC Self-Archiving Mandate, but inevitably to be followed in the US with the FRPAA Self-Archiving Mandate, and elsewhere in the world by kindred policies: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=European%2… http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=Federal%20… I cannot resist adding (though it includes an element of conjecture) that Pannonia even had a hand in formulating the optimal version of the European OA Self-Archiving mandate, in the form of the European Research Advisory Board's (EURAB) policy proposal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.… On the EURAB committee that formulated that excellent policy was the Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Norbert Kroo. The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has now closed the circle, in signing the EC OA petition on behalf of the Academy. Many thanks also too to Prof. Csaba Pleh, Deputy General Secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who also played a critical mediating role. http://www.mta.hu/index.php?id=634&no_cache=1&backPid=390&tt_news=3587&cHas… as did Barbara Kirsop, of EPT: http://www.mta.hu/index.php?id=858&backPid=406&tt_news=3575&cHash=ddfeb1db6b Sincerely, Hernad Istvan (Stevan Harnad) Corresponding Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

19 years, 4 months

Szeged - Kognitív Tavasz

by NEMETH, Dezso

Kedves Kollégák! Csatoltam a Szegedi Megismeréstudományi és Neuropszichológia Program tavaszi menetrendjét. Minden érdeklődő hallgatót, kutatót várunk! üdv. dezső ---------------------------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (Phd) University of Szeged, Department of Psychology Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/ Cognitive Sciences at University of Szeged: http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu Psychology at University of Szeged: http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/pszichologia/

19 years, 4 months

Darwin-nap

by Szappanos Adrienn

A Darwin-nap a tudomány vívmányainak és az evolúció elméletének ünnepe. A kezdeményezők úgy gondolták, annak ellenére, hogy modern kultúránk és életlehetőségeink sokasága nagyrészt a tudomány eredményeire épül, nem volt olyan nemzetközi tradíció, amely méltóképpen megemlékezett volna a tudományos módszerről, és az ennek segítségével felépített tudáshalmazról. További információk és programok: http://www.darwinnap.hu/ február 12.

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