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Soltis/Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying by Joseph Soltis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), 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. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying Joseph Soltis National Institutes of Health ABSTRACT: In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. There is not strong evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, however, but infant cries may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry pitch. Caregivers may use this acoustic information, together with other cues, to guide care-giving behavior. Serious pathology, on the other hand, results in chronically and severely abnormal cry acoustics. Such abnormal crying may be a proximate cause of adaptive infant maltreatment, in circumstances in which parents cut their losses and reduce or withdraw investment from infants with low survival chances. An increase in the amount of crying during the first few months of life is a human universal, and excessive crying, or colic, represents the upper end of this normal increase. Potential signal functions of excessive crying include manipulation of parents to acquire additional resources, honest signaling of need, and honest signaling of vigor. Current evidence does not strongly support any of these hypotheses, but the evidence is most consistent with the hypothesis that excessive early infant crying is a signal of vigor that evolved to reduce the risk of a reduction or withdrawal of parental care. KEYWORDS: colic, crying, early infant crying, honest signaling, infanticide, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, separation call, vocalization. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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23 years, 1 month

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, G ü n t h e r F l e c k

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 12 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 G ü n t h e r F l e c k Department of Human and Social Sciences National Defence Academy, Vienna, Austria THE ANTI-SCIENCE PHENOMENON: PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF RISKY DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING SCIENCE In recent years we have been witnessing various movements attacking the position of science. These attacks originated in different domains,such as political and religious fundamentalism, esotericism, or relativism. They all share a more or less radical rejection of science emphasizing their own brand of world view as absolute truth. Some of these attacks on science (e.g., the New Age Movement) may be considered as a reaction against the extreme version of science - scientism. Viewing science as the only way of gaining genuine (true) knowledge, scientism has provoked and promoted anti-scientific movements. Unsatisfied with the position of scientism, even many students and young graduates in the Western culture have become susceptible to modern versions of superstition and pseudo-science. The obvious side-effects are the loss of the ability of critical thinking and the increase of superstitious thinking. This paper offers an attempt to analyse and to understand these movements from a psychological perspective. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion.The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on 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 H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

Meghívó

by Winkler István

Az MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézete meghív minden érdeklõdõt Prof. Nelson Cowan (Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri) Measuring working-memory capacity címû elõadására. Hely: MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet elõadóterme Budapest XIII. Victor Hugo u. 18 22, I. emelet Idõpont: 2003. május 22, 14 óra. Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk. -- ----------Note, phone and fax numbers have changed.------------ Istvan Winkler Mailing address: Institute for Psychology H-1394 Budapest, P.O.B. 398 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szondy u 83/85, HUNGARY Phone: (36-1) 3542-296 Fax: (36-1) 3542-416 e-mail: winkler(a)cogpsyphy.hu or winkler(a)psych.helsinki.fi

23 years, 1 month

Falk/Prelinguistic evolution: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), 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. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? Dean Falk Florida State University ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary 'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing, reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants (i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers' bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control infants, both of which receive support from the literature. KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins; infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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23 years, 1 month

Falk/Prelinguistic evolution: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), 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. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? Dean Falk Florida State University ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary 'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing, reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants (i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers' bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control infants, both of which receive support from the literature. KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins; infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay Editor Jeffrey Gray Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 1 month

News from Science & Consciousness Review: Morin and Clark

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Inner speech and conscious experience - by Alain Morin "Imagine that scientists have been successful at designing a drug that freezes brain areas producing our internal monologue. After taking the drug you cant talk to yourself anymore. Every other mental activity is fine, but its now total silence in your head. Not a word. What would happen? What would it be like?" Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030403.html _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Empirical Constraints on the Concept of Consciousness - by Thomas W. Clark "As other commentators on the target article have pointed out, and as Crick and Koch themselves acknowledge, their hypotheses regarding the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) have much in common with the work of other researchers. There now seems to be a well-established research consensus that the NCC are distributed, integrated, and semi-hierarchical, extending across many brain systems subserving various cognitive functions. Consciousness seems to involve neural coalitions, not central executives." Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030404.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - BOOK: Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness - Changing the recognition of emotional faces - Robot finger has feeling - Compromise is name of the game in how brain works - Review of the Self-Concept See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES News: Atoms of thought. The microstate hypothesis of conscious states http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021202.html News: Free consciousness articles And how to find them on the Web http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021001.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

23 years, 1 month

CANCELLATION! 5 May

by Laszlo E. Szabo

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m ____________________________________ 5 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 CANCELLATION! M r s. T i b o r M a d a r á s z & G y ö r g y F a r k a s' seminar talk originally scheduled for 5 May is postponed through conflicting with the Putnam Conference! -- 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 H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

Putnam Conference, Pecs

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Pécsi Tudományegyetem Filozófia Tanszékek Magyar Tudományos Akadémia University Pécs Philosophy Department Hungarian Academy of Sciences H i l a r y P u t n a m f i l o z ó f i á j a The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam Nemzetközi Filozófiai Konferencia Hilary Putnam részvételével International Conference in Philosophy with the participation of Hilary Putnam MTA Pécsi Akadémiai Bizottság Székháza House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs Pécs, Jurisics M. u. 44. 2003 május 5.-6. May 5-6, 2003 Organization: János Boros, University Pécs boros(a)btk.pte.hu Monday, May 5, 2003 9.00-9.10 Opening 9.10-10.00 Opening Lecture Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore), Putnam, Pragmatism and Truth 10.00-10.10 Break 10.10-12.20 Morning Session Chair Michael Williams (Baltimore) 10.10-10.25 Zsolt Garai (Pécs-Paris), Varieties of therapeutical realism: McDowell and Putnam 10.25-10.40 Andrea Clausen (Berlin), How to account for objectivity. Brandom?s inferentialism vs. Putnam?s direct realism 10.40-10.55 Krisztián Pete (Pécs), Relativism cum Realism: is it a possible theory? 10.55-11.15 Discussion 11.15-11.30 Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London), Stopping short of the fact 11.30-11.45 Tadeusz Szubka (Lublin), Putnam on the viability of an epistemic conception of truth 11.45-12.00 Matjaz Potrc (Ljubljana), Internal Realism 12.00-12.20 Discussion 12.20-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London) 15.00-15.15 Tim Crane (London), Is the Mind a Thing? 15.15-15.30 Gyula Mezősi (Pécs), Is the strong supervenience thesis defensible? 15.30-15.45 György Kampis (Budapest), How to Be a Brain in a Vat and Why we are not 15.45-16.00 Ferenc Ruzsa (Budapest), Testing the Vat ? Talking about the Ding an sich 16.00-16.20 Discussion 16.20-16.40 Break 16.40-16.55 Ferenc Huoranszky (Budapest), Causation, Explanation and Internal Realism 16.55-17.10 István Danka (Pécs-Budapest), Rethinking non-mathematical necessity 17.10-17.25 András Máté (Budapest), First or second order logic? Putnam, Quine and the Skolem-Argument 17.25-17.40 Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Putnam on properties 17.40-18.00 Discussion 18.00-18.30 Break 18.30-19.30 Evening Lecture Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Objectivity without Objects 20.00 Dinner for the Participants at Pavlik Cellar (Pavlik Pince) Pécs, Varjú dűlő 1. Phone 226 252 Tuesday, May 6, 2003 9.00-10.00 Morning Lecture Ágnes Heller (New School, New York), Hilary Putnam on fact/value dichotomy 10.00-10.20 Break 10.20-12.30 Morning Session Chair: Tim Crane (London) 10.20-10.35 Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore), Putnam?s Wittgenstein 10.35-10.50 János Weiss (Pécs-Frankfurt), Putnam and Habermas 10.50-11.05 Jon Roberts (New York), Putnam, Truth and History: Reading the Past Pragmatically 11.05-11.25 Discussion 11.25-11.40 László Tarnay and Tamás Pólya (Pécs), On Meaning Holism. Is Miscommunication All We Have? 11.40-11.55 Richard Schantz (Berlin), Putnam on perception 11.55-12.10 János Tőzsér (Budapest), Is there a gap between the Mind and the World in perception? 12.10-12.30 Discussion 12.30-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Meredith Williams (Baltimore) 15.00-15.15 János Kelemen (Budapest), Linguistic Division of Labour: Putnam and Rossi-Landi 15.15-15.30 László Komlósi (Pécs), Negotiated and Agreeable Inferences 15.30-15.45 Tibor Szolcsányi (Pécs), Experience, Descriptions and the Spectral Model of Information 15.45-16.05 Discussion 16.05-16.20 Zsofia Zvolenszky (New York), The semantics of natural kind terms 16.20-16.35 Ferenc András (Pécs), The question, the possibility of the answer and the answer 16.35-16.50 János Boros (Pécs), Internal realism is realism: Dewey and Davidson vs. Putnam 16.50-17.05 Csaba Pléh (Budapest) 17.05-17.20. Discussion 17.20-17.30 Conclusion 18.00 Take off for dinner in Villány, Blum Cellar (Blum Pince) Villánykövesd, Pince sor 24. Phone (72) 493 088 Bus starts 18.00 from conference location, stops at 18.05 at Hotel Hunyor. The conference is part in the series of the Pécs Philosophy Conferences. Until today there were conferences with and about the following philosophers: John McDowell, Pittsburgh, 1998 Daniel Dennett, Boston, 1999 Michael Williams, Baltimore, 1999 Robert Brandom, Pittsburgh, 2000 Jacques Derrida, Paris, 2000 Richard Rorty, Stanford, 2001 Ágnes Heller, New York and Budapest, 2002 A konferencia a Pécsi Filozófia Konferenciák sorozat része Eddig az említett filozófusokról és filozófusokkal rendeztünk Pécsett konferenciát. * Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University. His works are among others Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975 Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978 Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981 The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987 Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press, 1990 Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992 The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999 -- 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 H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

H i l a r y P u t n a m , Pecs

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Hungarian Academy of Sciences Tisztelettel meghívja Önt H i l a r y P u t n a m (Harvard) Objectivity without Objects angol nyelvű előadására 2003 május 5 hétfő, 18.30h Pécs, MTA Székház (PAB, Jurisics u.44.) További információ: PTE BTK Filozófia Tanszékek Tel. (72) 501 515 boros(a)btk.pte.hu Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University. His works are among others Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975 Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978 Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981 The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987 Realism with a Human Face, Harvad University Press, 1990 Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992 The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999 -- 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 H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

Philosophy lecture at CEU

by Krisztina Biber

The Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Friday, 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room "Ethics Without Metaphysics" Chair: Howard Robinson, CEU Philosophy Department Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

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