Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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11 June 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English)
D o n I h d e
Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook
Epistemology Engines
The history of science is filled with important theories and discoveries
based upon observations of technologies, for example, thermodynamics
comes from the steam engine as historians claim. I shall examine
several cases of lifeworld practices which relate to scientific
developments, including cannon warfare and ballistics, railway schedules
and clocks for special relativity, etc. But the focus will be upon
technologies which become explicit models for knowledge production. In
the first case, I shall examine the role of the camera obscura for early
modern epistemology and then the 'return of the book of life' for
contemporary epistemology.
The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:50:45 +0100 (BST)
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EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE:
Fourth International Conference, 2002.
Harvard University
Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th.
This is the fourth conference in the series, continuing from
Edinburgh/1996, London/1998, and Paris/2000.
WEBSITE for this conference: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/
LOCAL ORGANIZER: Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Marc Hauser (Harvard University)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are solicited on all aspects of the origin and evolution of
language, from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology,
Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cognitive Science,
Computational or Mathematical Modelling, Ethology, Genetics,
Linguistics, Neuroscience, Palaeontology, and Psychology. It is
anticipated that papers will be presented in 25 minutes, with 5 minutes
for discussion. Papers will be accepted on the basis of submitted
abstracts, refereed by independent assessors. Some papers not accepted
as talks will be accepted as posters.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
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Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications,
Paris)
Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)
James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Knight (University of East London)
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
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Subject: conference on animal consciousness, Salzburg
International Seminar on
Consciousness in Animals
June 10th June 13th 2001
Institute of Zoology
University of Salzburg
Sunday, 10th June
16.00 welcome and opening addresses
HS 421
A. Lametschwandtner (Chair of Department)
G. Bernatzky and G. Bernroider (Institute of Zoology, Univ.
Salzburg)
Jane Krakower (Forida, USA) and Gustav Bernroider:
Consciousness: wrapping and unwrapping of a time travel
Get together
Monday, 11th June
Basic aspects
10.00 Jaak Panksepp, BGSU, Ohio, USA HS 421
The issue of animal consciousness: are anthropomorphisms and
zoomorphisms viable strategies in behavioural brain research
?
11.30 Johannes Brandl, Institute of Philosophy, Univ.
Salzburg
Phenomenal consciousness and its representational
explanations
Lunch
Psychophysical aspects time and music
13.00 G|nther Bernatzky, University of Salzburg
Music and emotions: therapeutic strategies
13.30 Wolfgang Klimesch, Dept. Of Psychology, Salzburg
Time and consciousness: the functional meaning of
oscillations
Coffee
15.30 Sabina Deixler, Claudia Beneke, Dragana Sikman
University of Salzburg, AG Bernatzky
Preference for music in animals: from dairy-cows to chickens
Tuesday, 12th June
Comparative cognition
10.00 Vern Bingman, BGSU, Ohio, USA
Orientation in animals the foundations of comparative
cognition
11.30 L. Slotta-Bachmayr, M. Schvnpflug and Sonja Sinnmayer,
ARGE ZOO, Salzburg
The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the
study of
migrational behaviour in Przewalski-horses (Takhi) in the
south-west of Mongolia
13.00 short communications towards the ecology of
orientation behaviour
Romana Edelbacher, Inst. f. Zoologie, Univ. Salzburg
Spatial behaviour of grey herons in the Salzburg Zoo
Julia Pesta and Andreas Maletzky, Inst. of Zoology, Univ.
Salzburg
Populational ecology of newts
Bernhard Schmall
The influence of temperature on the spawning behaviour of
the European Grayling (Thymallus thymallus, L.)
Afternoon: walks and talks
17.00 evening lectures on qualia and the brain
Gustav Bernroider, Inst. of Zoology, Univ. Salzburg
The hues behind qualia: comparative aspects of neural
organizations subserving conscious experience
Comments from Arthur Voggenhuber, Inst. of Zoology, Univ.
Salzburg
Is there a timing problem in the macaque visual cortex?
Helmut Mayer, Inst. Computer Science, Univ. Salzburg
Neuromodelling of higher level brain functions (and
consciousness)
Ken Mogi, Sony Res. Tokyo, Japan
Qualia and intention in theories of mind
19.00 party time
Wednesday, 13th June
survival mechanisms
10.00 Franz Uiblein, Inst. of Zoology, Univ. of Salzburg
On the ecology of emotions
11.00 Robert Huber, Dept. of Biology, BGSU, Ohio, USA
Serotonin modulation of aggression in crayfish
short communications on emotional behaviour subserving
survival mechanisms
12 .00 Roman Fuchs, Inst. of Zoology, Univ. of Salzburg
Developmental aspects of vocal control subserving
emotional expressions in birds
closure and farewell
Registration:
Personal registration necessary mail to
Gustav.Bernroider(a)sbg.ac.at
Fees: Students from the University of Salzburg free
participation
Guests: 500,- ATS
Location: University of Salzburg, Naturwissenschaftliche
Fakultdt, Hellbrunnerstr. 34
A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Organizers: G|nther Bernatzky and Gustav Bernroider
Web-page: www.neurobiology.wswww.qualia.ws
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From: ICANN 2001 conference <icann(a)ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Call for Participation: ICANN 2001
Call for Participation
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ICANN 2001
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Aug. 21-25, 2001
Vienna, Austria
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann
the annual conference of the
European Neural Network Society
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Deadline for early registration fees: June 15, 2001
Invited Speakers:
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Eric Baum, NEC Research Institute
Vladimir S. Cherkassky, Univ. of Minnesota
Stephen Grossberg, Boston Univ.
Wolfgang Maass, Graz Univ. of Technology
Kim Plunkett, Oxford Univ.
Stephen Roberts, Oxford Univ.
Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. of Pisa
Florentin Woergoetter, Univ. of Stirling
Program (Aug 22-24):
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72 oral presentations and around 100 posters on the following
topics:
- Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition
(Algorithms, Theory, Hardware, Applications)
- Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods
- Independent Component Analysis
- Topographic Mapping
- Time Series and Signal Processing
- Agent-based Economic Modeling (special session)
- Computational Neuroscience
- Vision and Image Processing
- Robotics and Control
- Selforganization and Dynamical Systems
- Connectionist Cognitive Science
Tutorials (Aug 21):
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- Bioinformatics - The Machine Learning Approach
Pierre Baldi
- Predictive Learning and Modelling Financial
Markets
Vladimir Cherkassky
- Extraction of Knowledge from Data using
Computational Intelligence Methods
Wlodek Duch
- Support Vector Machines
N.N.
- Sequential Learning of Nonlinear Models
Mahesan Niranjan
- Identification and Forecasting of Dynamical
Systems
Hans Georg Zimmermann
- Neuroscience for Engineers and Computer
Scientists
Peter Erdi
- Independent Component Analysis
Aapo Hyvärinen
Workshops (Aug 25):
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- Advances in EEG Analysis
B. Blankertz, A. Flexer, J. Kohlmorgen,
K.R. Müller, S. Roberts, P. Sykacek
- Processing Temporal Patterns with Recurrent
Networks
D. Eck, J. Schmidhuber
- Kernel and Subspace Methods for
Computer Vision
A. Leonardis, H. Bischof
- Advances toward Lifelike Perception Systems
L. Smith
Program chairs:
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Georg Dorffner (general chair)
Horst Bischof
Kurt Hornik
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Please see our web page for more details and for
online registration.
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann