ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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2000, Aprilis
Április 3
12:30
6. em. 6.54
B a r r y L o e w e r
Rutgers University
Collegium Budapest
Many World and Many Mind Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
After sketching the measurement problem -or what Philip Pearle more
aptly calls "the reality problem"- for quantum theory I show how Everett
and his successors attempt to deal with the problem by reinterpreting
the quantum state as describing many simultaneously existing worlds. I
will argue that the interpretation has many attractive features but
ultimately fails in providing an appropriate account of quantum
mechanical probabilities. An even stranger interpretation called "Many
minds" (due to Albert and Loewer) solves that problem but may be too
weird to be believable.
Április 10
12:30
6. em. 6.54
G u l y á s L á s z l ó
ELTE TTK, Informatikai Doktori Iskola
MTA SZTAKI, Mesterséges Intelligencia Laboratórium
Koordináció multi-ágens rendszerekben
A több - akár egymástól független - ágensbol (az egyszeruség kedvéért,
pongyolán: cselekvobol) álló rendszereket multi-ágens rendszereknek
nevezzük. Meglehetosen általános definícióról lévén szó, multi-ágens
rendszerekkel igen gyakran találkozunk a bennünket körülvevo mind
természetes, mind mesterséges környezetben. Ilyen rendszert alkot
például az emberi társadalom maga, a gazdaság szereploi, de akár egy
kisebb csoport is. Ugyancsak ide sorolhatók a rovartársadalmak és egyéb
állatkolóniák is. E rendszerek esetében az egyik legfontosabb,
legérdekesebb folyamat a koordináció. Ez az a mechanizmus, melynek
segítségével a rendszer szereploinek tevékenysége összehangolódik a
külso korlátok betartása, illetve valamilyen közös cél elérése
"érdekében". Ide tartozik a hangyák élelemkeresésének mikéntje, a
vállalatok irányítása, de pl. a vastaps spontán kialakulása is. A
hálózatok és az elosztottság ideájának terjedésével a multi-ágens
rendszerek egyre gyakoribbak a számítógépes világban is. Ez
hagyományosan elsosorban kliens-szerver architektúrát, illetve elosztott
problémamegoldást (a szereplok egyazon probléma megoldásán fáradoznak)
jelent. Az internet, s - vele együtt - a "nyílt hálózat" gondolatának
megjelenésével azonban egyre inkább elotérbe kerültek az egymástól
független, csak részben közös célokkal rendelkezo, vagy akár
ellenérdekelt szereplokbol álló rendszerek. E rendszerek esetében
különösen fontos a koordináció vizsgálata, hiszen a korlátok betartása,
illetve a közös feladatok elvégzése csak abban az esetben garantálható,
ha a rendszer minden, a koordináció szempontjából fontos részletet
tartalmaz. Az eloadásban a természetes (azaz nem-számítógépes)
rendszerek fobb koordinációs mechanizmusait tekintjük át, felvillantva a
mesterséges (azaz számítógépes) multi-ágens rendszerek építésekor
felhasználható fobb módszereket. A jelenleg létezo konkrét számítógépes
technikákra csak röviden térünk ki, s akkor is csupán abból a célból,
hogy érzékeltessük: van még elvégzendo feladat.
Április 17
12:30
6. em. 6.54
K a r l - G e o r g S c h l e s i n g e r
University of Wuppertal
Quantization in mathematics
Quantization, a topic as everybody knows coming from physics, is more
and more entering pure mathematics in the sense of quantization
mathematical structures themselves. The approach of deformation
quantization does presently seem to be the most successful and
deformation quantization of mathematical structures - from topological
spaces and manifolds over groups to special functions - is everywhere
present. We present an overview, focusing on the general ideas of this
approach and leaving out the technical details. Quite separate from the
modern approaches, there is the old idea of Birkhoff and von Neumann
that quantum theory leads to the introduction of a nonclassical logic
and that one should develop a corresponding quantum set theory. We give
heuristic arguments showing that it seems indeed to be possible to view
the modern quantum deformation theory as doing mathematics in such a
quantum set theory.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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Marcius 20
12:30
6. em. 6.54
Z o l t a n S z a b o
Cornell University
Ontological commitment
On what basis can we say that someone admits into his ontology numbers,
mental states, propositions, events, or other dubious entities? The
classical answer to this question is due to Quine: ontological
commitment to Fs (where 'F' is an arbitrary one-place predicate) is the
acceptance of the truth a theory that logically entails that there are
Fs. In my talk I will argue against this Quinean position. I will
contend that for some predicates 'F' it is possible for a rational and
reflective person to believe that there are Fs and at the same time not
to believe in Fs. If my contention is correct, there might be a way to
articulate ontological doubts regarding certain sorts of problematic
entities without repudiating our scientific and commonsense views which
demand their existence.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
The following paper is available at:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html
Comments welcome.
Harnad, S. (2001) Minds, Machines and Turing: The Indistinguishability
of Indistinguishables. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information
(special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence")
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html
MINDS, MACHINES AND TURING:
THE INDISTINGUISHABILITY OF INDISTINGUISHABLES
Stevan Harnad
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
ABSTRACT: Turing's celebrated 1950 paper proposes a very general
methodological criterion for modelling mental function: total
functional equivalence and indistinguishability. His criterion
gives rise to a hierarchy of Turing Tests, from subtotal ("toy")
fragments of our functions (t1), to total symbolic (pen-pal)
function (T2 -- the standard Turing Test), to total external
sensorimotor (robotic) function (T3), to total internal
microfunction (T4), to total indistinguishability in every
empirically discernible respect (T5). This is a
"reverse-engineering" hierarchy of (decreasing) empirical
underdetermination of the theory by the data. Level t1 is clearly
too underdetermined, T2 is vulnerable to a counterexample (Searle's
Chinese Room Argument), and T4 and T5 are arbitrarily
overdetermined. Hence T3 is the appropriate target level for
cognitive science. When it is reached, however, there will still
remain more unanswerable questions than when Physics reaches its
Grand Unified Theory of Everything (GUTE), because of the mind/body
problem and the other-minds problem, both of which are inherent in
this empirical domain, even though Turing hardly mentions them.
KEYWORDS: cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, computation,
computationalism, consciousness, dynamical systems,
epiphenomenalism, intelligence, machines, mental models, mind/body
problem, other minds problem, philosophy of science, qualia,
reverse engineering, robotics, Searle, symbol grounding, theory of
mind, thinking,Turing, underdetermination, Zombies.
Biographical Sketch, Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and Henry Vilas
Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has
taught since 1974. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in
the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature
of Selection -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (MIT Press,
1984; 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993), Reconstructing the
Past -- Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy
of Biology (Westview Press, 1993), From a Biological Point of View --
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and,
most recently (with David S. Wilson) Unto Others -- The Evolution and
Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998). Sober
is a past president of the American Philosophical Association Central
Division and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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George Kampis, Associate Professor, Chairman,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
ELTE University, 1518 Budapest, P.O. Box 32, Hungary
Phone/FAX: (36) 1 372 2924 email: gk(a)hps.elte.hu
http://hps.elte.hu/~gk ftp://hps.elte.hu
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Elliott Sober (a Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag 2000 evi diszvendege, az
IUHPS/DLMPS fotitkara) marciusban ket eloadast tart Budapesten.
(1)
marcius 13 hetfo 12:30 "Evolution and the Problem of Other Minds"
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek,
1117 Bp. Pazmany Peter setany 1., 6. em. 658.
Az eloadas szovege es Sober eletrajza megtalalhato a
http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2000/Marcius/Sober.htm alatt
(2)
marcius 14 kedd 16:30 "Altruism and Group Selection"
MTA Szekhaz, Kisterem
1051 Bp. Roosewelt ter 9.
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk,
udv kgy
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George Kampis, Associate Professor, Chairman,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
ELTE University, 1518 Budapest, P.O. Box 32, Hungary
Phone/FAX: (36) 1 372 2924 email: gk(a)hps.elte.hu
http://hps.elte.hu/~gk ftp://hps.elte.hu
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ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
Marcius 13
12:30
6. em. 6.54
E l l i o t t S o b e r
Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Evolution and the Problem of Other Minds
The whole paper:http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2000/Marcius/Sober.htm
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
Csaba Pleh Pleh Csaba
Cognitive Science Group Megismerestudomanyi Csoport
Department of Psychology Pszichologiai Tanszek
University of Szeged Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem
Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Telefon/Phone: (36)(62) 544691
Lakas/Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary
(36)(23) 453932 or 933
Mobile: (0620) 3278922
WEB: http//www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~pleh
www.cogsciszeged.deltav.hu
Hungarian Review of Psychology Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle
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Thoemmes Press is building a web gallery of scientific portraits,
including a number of psychologists. For anyone interested, it can be
found at:
http://www.thoemmes.com/images/sc_gall/science_gall.htm
Rob
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Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
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Subject: Call for Papers ESHHS, Aug. 25-29, 2000, Berlin, Germany
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Call for papers: The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences
(formerly Cheiron Europe), Berlin, Germany, Aug. 25-29, 2000.
The Free University of Berlin invites you to attend the nineteenth annual
meeting of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. This
will take place in the Europaische Akademie Berlin from August 25 to August
29, 2000.
Papers are invited on any aspect of the history, historiography, theory or
methodology of the Human Sciences. The program committee hopes to include a
number of symposia/colloquia. Suggestions should be submitted to the local
organiser Horst-Peter Brauns. Papers dealing with any other topic in the
history of the human sciences are welcome. The Programme Committee
particularly invites papers on the following topics:
- The development of the Human Sciences in Europe during the 20th century
in their national and political context
- Human Sciences and the developing world
- Migrating scientists: social scientists in exile
- The history of research methods and methodology and of the experiment in
the human sciences
- The gender issue in the human sciences
- The post-modern idea in the human sciences
- Local and regional history: focus on Berlin
- The Berlin Enlightenment from a multi-disciplinary perspective
- The history of psychoanalysis in Berlin
- Trauma, history, communication
- Methodological problems in the history of science and in writing the
history of particular disciplines
If you plan to attend the meeting please send the following Preliminary
Registration form (see attached) to the local organizer (Horst-Peter
Brauns) as soon as possible, or email the members of the program committee.
Students who wish to attend the ESHHS meeting are invited to apply for a
grant from the Society. There are two conditions: presenting a paper at the
conference and applying for an additional grant elsewhere. Please contact
the Society's Treasurer Sacha Bem (for his address see elsewhere in this
Newsletter).
The conference sessions and accommodation will be in the Europ�ische
Akademie Berlin. It is a conference venue with all modern conveniences
surrounded by an old garden, situated in the district of Gr�newald, one of
the most beautiful parts of the city with urban villas, but still close to
the new and old centers of' the capital. Accommodation charges (excluding
registration fee and conference dinner) will be DM 168 (about $ 85) per day
full board (4 meals a day). There is very affordable accomodation for
graduate students available about a 5 min. walk from the conference site.
If you want to participate, please send a copy of your paper (between 6 and
8 pages double-spaced) to the members of the program committee before June
1, 2000. Papers can be submitted electronically.
PD Dr. Horst-Peter Brauns
Studiengang Psychologie
Freie Universitat Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49308385636 Mobile: +491724382133
Fax: +49308385647; +49308386777
Dr. Ruud Abma
Faculty of Social Sciences
Utrecht University
PO box 80140
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31302534742
Fax: +31302534733
e-mail r.abma(a)fss.uu.nl
Dr. Hans Pols
Department of Psychology
Conant Hall
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03801
USA
Phone: 1 603 862 4044
Fax: 1 603 862 4986
Jpols(a)cisunix.unh.edu
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ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
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Marcius 6
12:30
6. em. 6.54
B e n e G y u l a
ELTE TTK Elmeleti Fizikai Tanszek
Ervenyes-e a lokalitas elve a kvantummechanikaban?
A fenti kerdesre a valasz igenlo, ha az elmelet kereteit a belso
osszhang erdekeben nemileg kiterjesztjuk. Ehhez a jelenlegi kiserleti
tenyanyaggal osszhangban feltetelezzuk, hogy 1. a kvantummechanika
ervenyes makroszkopikus testekre is 2. nincs hullamfuggveny redukcio 3.
a Bell-egyenlotlenseg csakugyan serul (nem szisztematikus meresi hiba
okozza) Megmutatjuk, hogy a kvantumallapotok relativitasara alapozva a
realizmus fogalma uj ertelmet nyer, es ez az a pont, ahol a klasszikus
fizika ill. a specialis relativitaselmelet vilagkepe reviziora szorul.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
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Dear All,
This is just a reminder for those who are interested.
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The CEU Philosophy Doctoral Support Program cordially invites you to a =
seminar and lecture by Professor Timothy Williamson.=20
We are extremely happy that Professor Williamson has accepted our =
invitation and would be glad if all interested people could attend his =
talk.=20
Time: Tuesday, 29 February 11.00-12.40 (lecture) and 14.30-16.10 (seminar)
Place: Central European University, 9. Nador str. Faculty Tower, room 609.
The title is "A Priori Knowledge, Content Externalism and=20
Deductive Closure".
Abstract:
According to externalism, the content of our beliefs and other=20
propositional attitudes depends constitutively on the external=20
environment. That raises the possibility that by knowing what we=20
think we can gain substantive knowledge of the environment, where=20
this knowledge would be a priori in the sense of being non-
observational. It has been argued that would be a reductio ad=20
absurdum of content externalism, since we cannot have substantive a=20
priori knowledge of the environment. The talk will call such=20
arguments into question. In general, it is not clear that such=20
knowledge cannot be a priori in the relevant sense. In particular,=20
the argument in question assumes that one's a priori knowledge is=20
closed under one's deductions; this assumption is more problematic=20
than it sounds.=20
Please send me an e-mail whether you are interested in and would be able =
to attend.=20
Kriszta Biber
Program Coordinator
Philosophy Doctoral Support Program
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
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