Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM
Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
http://hps.elte.hu
27 March 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Language: Hungarian
Gabor Takacs
Theoretical Physics Research Group
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Relativisztikus kvantumelmelet: reszecskek vagy mezok?
(Relativistic quantum theory: particles or fields?)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/March/#4
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The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty
members from all departments!
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a
30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are
encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should
be written in the language of the presentation.
The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.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://hps.elte.hu/leszabo
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
by
István Aranyosi (Centre for Consciousness-ANU,CEU)
on
'Phenomenal intentionality'
22 March, 5:00pm, Zrinyi 14, room 412
Abstract:
http://www.ceu.hu/phil/talks_abstracts.html#IA
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
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TITLE: The unified theory of repression
AUTHOR: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi
ABSTRACT: Repression has become an empirical fact that is at once obvious and problematic.
Fragmented clinical and laboratory traditions and disputed terminology have resulted in a
Babel of misunderstandings in which false distinctions are imposed (e.g., between
repression and suppression) and necessary distinctions not drawn (e.g., between the
mechanism and the use to which it is put, defense being just one). "Repression" was
introduced by Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas
in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to the defensive inhibition
of "unbearable" mental contents. Substantial experimental literatures on attentional
biases, thought avoidance, interference, and intentional forgetting exist, the oldest
prototype being the work of Ebbinghaus, who showed that intentional avoidance of memories
results in their progressive forgetting over time. It has now become clear, as clinicians
had claimed, that the inaccessible materials are often available and emerge indirectly
(e.g., procedurally, implicitly). It is also now established that the Ebbinghaus retention
function can be partly reversed, with resulting increases of conscious memory over time
(hypermnesia). Freud's clinical experience revealed early on that exclusion from
consciousness was effected not just by simple repression (inhibition) but also by a
variety of distorting techniques, some deployed to degrade latent contents (denial), all
eventually subsumed under the rubric of defense mechanisms ("repression in the widest
sense"). Freudian and Bartlettian distortions are essentially the same, even in name, but
for motive (cognitive vs. emotional), and experimentally induced false memories and other
"memory illusions" are laboratory analogs of self-induced distortions.
KEYWORDS: Avoidance, Bartlett, Defense, Denial, Distortion, Ebbinghaus, False-Memories,
Freud, Inhibition, Repression, Suppression.
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM
Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium
Program - April
3 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Language: Hungarian
Gergely Szekely
Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Az ikerparadoxon logikai analizise
(Logical analysis of the twin's paradox)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#1
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10 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Language: Hungarian
Janos Tanacs
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
History and Philosophy of Science Research Group of the HAS
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Mifele kulonbseg? Avagy fogalmi vagy pusztan terminologiai kulonbseg-e a
nem-euklideszi parhuzamossag Bolyai- es Lobacsevszkij-fele meghatarozasa?
(Is there a conceptual or merely a terminological difference between Bolyai's
and Lobatchevsky's definitions of parallelism?)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#2
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24 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Language: English
Takashi Hashimoto
School of Knowledge Science
Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology
On origin and evolution of language - significance of constructive approach
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#4
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The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty
members from all departments!
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a
30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are
encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should
be written in the language of the presentation.
The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.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
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commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new
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* 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 April 6, 2006
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
==================================================================
CALL FOR COMMENTATORS
==================================================================
"The unified theory of repression" by Matthew Hugh Erdelyi has been accepted for
publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Calls for Commentators are sent to
over 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous)
that each recipient should comment on every occasion!
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.
Please DO NOT write a commentary unless you receive a formal invitation in the near
future. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of
this paper will be posted in the commentary 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.
==================================================================
** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION **
==================================================================
TITLE: The unified theory of repression
AUTHOR: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi
ABSTRACT: Repression has become an empirical fact that is at once obvious and problematic.
Fragmented clinical and laboratory traditions and disputed terminology have resulted in a
Babel of misunderstandings in which false distinctions are imposed (e.g., between
repression and suppression) and necessary distinctions not drawn (e.g., between the
mechanism and the use to which it is put, defense being just one). "Repression" was
introduced by Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas
in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to the defensive inhibition
of "unbearable" mental contents. Substantial experimental literatures on attentional
biases, thought avoidance, interference, and intentional forgetting exist, the oldest
prototype being the work of Ebbinghaus, who showed that intentional avoidance of memories
results in their progressive forgetting over time. It has now become clear, as clinicians
had claimed, that the inaccessible materials are often available and emerge indirectly
(e.g., procedurally, implicitly). It is also now established that the Ebbinghaus retention
function can be partly reversed, with resulting increases of conscious memory over time
(hypermnesia). Freud's clinical experience revealed early on that exclusion from
consciousness was effected not just by simple repression (inhibition) but also by a
variety of distorting techniques, some deployed to degrade latent contents (denial), all
eventually subsumed under the rubric of defense mechanisms ("repression in the widest
sense"). Freudian and Bartlettian distortions are essentially the same, even in name, but
for motive (cognitive vs. emotional), and experimentally induced false memories and other
"memory illusions" are laboratory analogs of self-induced distortions.
KEYWORDS: Avoidance, Bartlett, Defense, Denial, Distortion, Ebbinghaus, False-Memories,
Freud, Inhibition, Repression, Suppression.
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/
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* 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 April 6, 2006
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
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==================================================================
Barbara Finlay - Editor
Paul Bloom - Editor
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
bbs(a)bbsonline.org
http://www.bbsonline.org
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM
Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium
20 March 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Language: English
Laszlo E. Szabo
Theoretical Physics Research Group
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
The metaphysical basis of logic and mathematics
(A physicalist approach)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/March/#3
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The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty
members from all departments!
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a
30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are
encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should
be written in the language of the presentation.
The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.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://hps.elte.hu/leszabo