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Subject: CogSci2001- Sofia Summer School
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8th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, New Bulgarian University
July 9 - 28, 2001
Organized by New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and
Bulgarian Society for Cognitive Science
Endorsed by the Cognitive Science Society
Sponsored by: New Bulgarian University,
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science,
Bob Glushko (USA)
Arthur Shimamura (University of California at Berkeley, USA) - Executive
Control, Metacognition and Memory Processes
Barbara Finlay (Cornell University, USA) - Development and Evolution of
the Brain
Maurice Greenberg (New Bulgarian University, BG) - Introduction to
Connectionism
Stella Vosniadou (University of Athens, GR) - Conceptual Change in
Physical Knowledge
Michael Thomas (NCDU, ICH, UK) - Connectionist Models of Developmental
Disorders
Csaba Pleh (University of Seget, HU) - Language Understanding in
Children, Adults and Patients
Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) - Human learning and adaptive
systems
Jeff Elman (University of California at San Diego, USA) - Connectionist
approaches to psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and linguistic
theory
Susan Epstein (City University of New York, USA) - Cognitive Modeling and
the Development of Expertise
Financial Support: Bob Glushko from the USA has generously provided support
for students who cannot afford paying on their own and whose universities
cannot pay either. The scholarships are mainly directed to students coming
from Eastern and Central Europe as well as from the former Soviet Union,
however, other cases will also be considered. The scholarships cover
tuition, travel, and living expenses. Applicants should present a
declaration of what kind of sources they can use for their participation in
the Summer School.
Deadline for application: May 15th
Notification of acceptance: May 24th.
For more information:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2001.htm
Svetlana Petkova,
Administrative manager
Central and Eastern Center for Cognitive Science
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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Program - MAY
7 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
K a t a l i n F a r k a s
Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
The limits of knowledge
This is a critical introduction into the ideas of Timothy Williamson's
Knowledge and its limits
(Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), a book which is considered by many as the
most original and
significant contribution to epistemology in the last few decades.
Working on theories of knowledge has been a flourishing enterprise in
the twentieth
century. Various versions of foundationalism, coherentism, causal
theories, reliabilism,
subjunctive theories, contextualist theories - and no doubt other
theories - have been
defended and criticised with great erudition.
Williamson's book breaks a new path in approaching questions of
knowledge. Here are
some of the main claims of the book:
- knowing is - contrary to what most contemporary theories of knowledge
hold - a
state of mind
- the state of knowing is unanalysable to further constituents - it is,
to use Williamson's
terminology, a prime condition
- hence it is not possible to give necessary and sufficient conditions
for knowing -
Gettierology was a waste of time
- the state of knowing is explanatory in actions just like states of
beliefs and desires are
14 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: Hungarian)
P e t e r G n a d i g
Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest
Ki lehetett volna ,,talalni'' a specialis relativitaselmeletet 50 evvel
Einstein elott?
(Could special relativity have been "figured out" 50 years before
Einstein?)
Kozismert, hogy az elektrodinamika torvenyei teljes osszhangban
allnak a specialis relativitaselmelettel, sot, Einstein eppen a ,,mozgo
testek elektrodinamikajabol'' jott ra a ter es ido ujszeru viszonyara.
Meglepo azonban, hogy ezt a kapcsolatot mar az elektrosztatika
(Coulomb-torveny) es az egyenaramok (pl. egy hosszu, egyenes vezeto)
Ampere-fele magneses tere magaban rejti, s ez a kapcsolat elemi
lepesekkel (az eltolasi aramra, vagy az elektromagneses hullamokra valo
hivatkozas nelkul, s felsobb matematikai apparatust mellozve) felszinre
hozhato.
Megfelelo tolteselrendezest valasztva nehany egyszeru lepes utan
eljuthatunk a Lorentz-kontrakciot, az idodilataciot, az egyidejuseg
relativitasat, az altalanos Lorentz-transzformaciot es az
elektromagneses tererossegek transzformacios kepleteit megado
formulakhoz.
Erdekes tudomanyfilozofiai kerdes, hogy ha mindez ennyire keszen allt
mar az 1800-as evek kozepen, akkor mi volt az a mozzanat, ami egy fel
evszazadon keresztul meg hianyzott a relativitaselmelet
megfogalmazasahoz. Az eloado velemenye szerint, a toltesek
,darabossaganak'' felismeresere, az atomi reszecskek felfedezesere
kellett varni.
21 May4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Balázs Gyenis*
Gábor Hofer-Szabó*
György Kampis*
Miklós Rédei*
László E. Szabó*
Péter Szegedi*
Moderator:
Márta Fehér**
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* HPS, Eötvös University, Budapest
** Philosophy, Technical University, Budapest
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle
No correlation without causation. This is, in its most compact and
general formulation, the essence of
what became called the Common Cause Principle (CCP). If two events A
and B are (positively)
correlated, p(A&B)>p(A)p(B), then either there is a causal connection
between A and B that brings about the correlation or there is a third
event C (common cause) that stands in a causal connection with A and B,
and it is this C that causes the correlation, that is,
(1) p(A&B|C)=p(A|C)p(B|C)
(2) p(A&B|notC)=p(A|notC)p(B|notC)
(3) p(A&C)>p(A)p(C)
(4) p(B&C)>p(B)p(C)
A part of the panelists believe that - although some slight
modifications of the original Reichenbachian
conception seem necessary - (1)-(4) express the proper mathematical
formulation of our causal intuition, and are never violated in reality.
Some others argue that Reichenbach's concept of common cause is
completely pointless and does not apply for many correlations in our
world.
Suggested readings:
- H. Reichenbach: The Direction of Time, University of California Press,
Los Angeles,1956, pp.
157-167.
- G. Hofer-Szabó, M. Rédei and L. E. Szabó: Reichenbach's Common Cause
Principle: Recent
Results and Open Questions, Reports on Philosophy, No. 20. (2001)
- E. Sober: The principle of the common cause, in J. H. Fetzer (ed.),
Probability and Causality,
Reidel Pub. Co., Boston,1988.
- E. Sober: Common cause explanation, Philosophy of Science, 51 (1984)
212-241.
- N. Cartwright: How to tell a common cause - Generalization of the
conjunctive fork criterion, in J.
H. Fetzer (ed.), Probability and Causality, Reidel Pub. Co.,
Boston,1988.
- Hofer-Szabó, G., Rédei, M., Szabó, L. E., On Reichenbach's common
cause principle and
Reichenbach's notion of common cause, The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, 50
(1999), 377-399.
28 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
M a r t a U j v a r i
Philosophy, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Time, Tense and the 'Indexical Fallacy' in McTaggart's Argument
The tenser-detenser debate has got impetus from the new indexical,
token reflexive analysis of tensed
language which renders the truth conditions of tensed sentences in
tenseless terms. According to
detensers like Mellor and Poidevin what Taggart's argument shows is
that the A-series account of time is a misconstrual leading to regress.
Tenser E.J. Lowe, however, argues that the A-regress cannot even have a
start since it rests on the indexical fallacy of using compound tenses.
His claim, roughly, is that temporal indexicals just like any other
indexicals cannot be iterated without violating the contextual
constraints on the use, as opposed to the mention, of indexicals.
Further, Lowe claims that extending Taggart's fallacious argument to
space and personality one could equally argue for the irreality of
places and persons.
I will show that Lowe's argument is incoherent. When introducing the
indexical fallacy he makes appeal
to the analogy between temporal and other indexicals. But when he
defends the tensed view he makes
appeal to Taggart's first two premises ( 1. time involves change
essentially; 2.change can be explained
only in terms of the A-series) which invite a disanalogy between
temporal and other indexicals. So, the
indexical fallacy cannot be repeated, pace Lowe, for space and person
within the context of
McTaggart's argument. Consequently, the threat of the irreality of
places and persons does not arise
along taggartian lines.
The other conclusion with broader implications is that even the
indexical analysis shows the specific
metaphysical character of time in consonance with the metaphysical
tradition.
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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kezdettel.
Helyszín: BM Duna Palota Fehér terem. (Bp, V. Zrínyi út 5. II.
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Az elõadás címe:
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Mindenkit szeretettel várunk.
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
CHANGE OF PROGRAM!
Since 30th April is a day to be kept as a holiday, Peter Gnadig's
lecture is moved to 7th May!
--
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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Non-member submission from [Lorincz Andras <alorincz(a)matavnet.hu>]
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:31:25 +0200
From: Lorincz Andras <alorincz(a)matavnet.hu>
To: fizinfo(a)sunserv.kfki.hu, koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu,
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:46:26 +0200
From: Lorincz Andras <alorincz(a)matavnet.hu>
To: koglist <koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu>
Subject: Postdoc / Ph.D. position
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Forwarded mail from Professor Rufin Vogels
Catholic University of Leuven
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/facdep/medicine/dep_neu/neufys
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Dear Andras, I have a postdoc / Ph.D. position available, starting
september 1st 2001. It is for (at least) a 3 year period, paid by a
European grant. The work is single cell recording in awake monkeys and
is on the coding of pictorial (ie. monocular) depth cues in macaque
inferotemporal cortex. The candidate will work as a participant of a
interdisciplinary (psychophysics, mathematics and engineering (computer
vision)) network (including J. Koenderink and Faugeras). Do you know any
interested persons?
greetings,
Rufin
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Dear Andras, I have a postdoc / Ph.D. position available, starting september
1st 2001. It is for (at least) a 3 year period, paid by a European grant.
The work is single cell recording in awake monkeys and is on the coding
of pictorial (ie. monocular) depth cues in macaque inferotemporal cortex.
The candidate will work as a participant of a interdisciplinary
(psychophysics,
mathematics and engineering (computer vision)) network (including J.
Koenderink
and Faugeras). Do you know any interested persons?
<br>
greetings,
<br>
Rufin</font></body></html>
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