ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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2000, marcius
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.
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
Professor Sober's CV:http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2000/Marcius/SoberCV.htm
Marcius 20
12:30
6. em. 6.54
S z a b o Z o l t a n
Cornell University
Ontologiai elkotelezettseg
Milyen alapon mondhatjuk azt valakirol, hogy ontologiajaban jelen vannak
szamok, elme-allapotok, propoziciok, esemenyek, vagy egyeb ketes
entitasok? A klasszikus valasz erre a kerdesre Quine-tol ered: az F-ekre
vonatkozo ontologiai elkotelezettseg (ahol 'F' egy tetszoleges
egyargumentumu predikatum) nem mas, mint egy olyan elmelet igazsaganak
elfogadasa, amelybol logikailag kovetkezik, hogy az F-ek leteznek.
Eloadasomban e Quine-i allaspont ellen fogok ervelni. Ugy velem, hogy
bizonyos 'F' predikatumok eseteben lehetseges, hogy egy racionalis es
reflektiv szemely elfogadja, hogy F-ek leteznek es ennek ellenere
megsincs az F-ekre vonatkozoan ontologiailag elkotelezve. Ha igazam van,
megvan a fogalmi lehetosege annak, hogy bizonyos problematikus
entitasokra vonatkozo ontologiai ketelyeiknek hangot adjunk anelkul,
hogy elvetnenk mindazokat a tudomanyos es mindennapi nezeteinket, melyek
megkovetelik az ilyesfajta entitasok letezeset.
Marcius 27
12:30
6. em. 6.54
S z e g e d i P e t e r
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
PTOLEMAIOSZ-KOPERNIKUSZ(-KEPLER)
Szeminariumaink soraban egy uj mufajjal kiserletezunk, a
"felkert"eloadassal, ami nem azt jelenti, hogy felkerunk egy eloadot -
hiszen ez termeszetes -, hanem azt, hogy egy adott temara kerjuk fel. Az
eloado tehat nem kutatasainak legujabb eredmenyeit ismerteti, es talan
nem is szakertoje az adott targynak. A tema viszont olyan, hogy azzal -
vagy analogonjaval - mindenki talalkozhat munkaja soran, azaz altalanos
erdeklodesre tarthat szamot. Az adott esetben az eloado a
tudomanytortenet tanitasa soran szembesult a problemaval, es
rakenyszerult - mint ez sokunkkal megeshet - hogy kialakitson valamilyen
elkepzelest vele kapcsolatban. Mi is a problema? Egy hires csillagasz
szerzo a kovetkezokeppen vezeti be: "Kezdettol fogva vilagosan kell
latnunk, hogy a bolygok mozgasanak leirasa szempontjabol tokeletesen
mindegy, vajon a Foldet vagy a Napot tekintjuk a naprendszer
kozeppontjanak. Mivel csak viszonylagos mozgasrol van szo, vegtelenul
nagy szamu, kulonbozo kozeppontokra vonatkozo, tokeletesen azonos leiras
letezik - elvben barmilyen pont megfelel, a Hold is, a Jupiter is ...
Igy hat azok a szenvedelyek, amelyeket Kopernikusz konyve, a De
revolutionibus ... szabaditott ra a vilagra, logikai ertelemben
indokolatlanok voltak ..."Es gondolatmenetet a kovetkezokeppen fejezi
be: "Ma semmifele jozan fizikai megfontolas alapjan nem jelenthetjuk ki,
hogy a kopernikuszi elmelet 'helyes', es a ptolemaioszi elmelet
'helytelen'. A ket elmelet ... fizikai ertelemben egyenerteku."(Fred
Hoyle: Stonehenge-tol a modern kozmologiaig. Magveto, 1978. 63. es
136-7. o.) Az eloadas tehat azzal foglalkozik, hogy mi a
tudomanytorteneti helye, jelentosege, egymashoz viszonyitott szerepe a
cimben szereplo szerzoknek, az idezetben hivatkozott "minden idok egyik
legkevesbe ismert es olvasott konyve"-nek (Arthur Koestler: Alvajarok.
Europa, 1996. 250. o.). Az eloado nem fogja megallni, hogy ne beszeljen
e szerzok ismert es lehetseges motivacioirol is. Az ajanlott irodalom
Ptolemaiosz Almagesztje, Kopernikusz emlitett konyve, Keplertol mondjuk
A vilag harmoniaja, valamint masodlagos irodalomkent Kuhn: The
Copernican Revolution c. munkaja (amely A tudomanyos forradalmak
szerkezete elotanulmanyanak tekintheto).
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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Februar 28
12:30
6. em. 6.54
P a l C s a b a
ELTE Novenyrendszertani es Okologiai Tanszek
Az oroklodesi rendszerek evolucioja
Darwin szerint az elolenyek uj kornyezethez valo alkalmazkodasa az
oroklodo variansok szelekcioja reven valosul meg. Ahhoz, hogy a folyamat
vegbemehessen, felteteleznunk kell ezen oroklodo variansok jelenletet.
Ezert az oroklodes es a variacio termeszetenek megertese kozponti
jelentosegu az evoluciobiologiaban. A biologia Modern Szintezisenek
megalkotoi tobbnyire azt felteteleztek, hogy kizarolag a DNS-ben tarolt
informacio adodhat at generaciorol generaciora. Mara azonban bizonyosnak
tunik, hogy a DNS mellett vannak egyeb oroklodesi rendszerek is: i) a
sejt epigenetikai oroklodesi rendszerei, ii) az allatok szocialis
tanulasa vagy eppen iii) az ember szimbolikus nyelvhasznalata mind-mind
lehetseges peldak. Az eloadas soran ket kerdesre keresunk valaszt:
milyen kozos es eltero vonasai vannak ezeknek a rendszereknek, valamint
hogyan befolyasolhatjak ezek jelenlete az evolucio iranyat.
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
Prof. Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University)
"Analogy-Making: The Phenomenon and its Modeling"
c. PhD kurzusara
feb. 28.- marc. 3. kozott kerul sor a TTK lagymanyosi epuletenek 6.86.
termeben, minden nap 10-13 ora kozott.
Mellekelem a kurzus leirasat es a megkivant olvasmanylistat, melynek
beszerzesehez Kokinov prof. segitseget nyujt: varhatoan hozza magaval a
cikkeket.
Ez egy erosen tultervezett kurzus, es ezt Kokinov professzor is tudja,
ugyhogy a potencialisan erintett hallgatok kerem, ne riadjanak el.
Termeszetesen a kurzusert kreditet lehet kapni.
Kokinov az igen johiru bolgar kognitiv tudomanyi centrum egyik igazgatoja,
nyari iskolajukon mar sok diakunk vett reszt. Jol szponzoralt rendezveny,
diakkent konyyu bejutni, szamos vilaghiresseg megfordul arrafele,
ugyhogy erdemes kapcsolatba kerulni az eloadoval.
Minden erdeklodo diakot (es tanart is) szerettel varunk.
udv kgy
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
ELTE University, 1518 Budapest, P.O. Box 32, Hungary
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MEGHIVO
A Typotex Elektronikus Kiado meghivja Ont
2000. marcius 16-an csutortokon 15 orara a HELIKON KONYVESHAZba
(Budapest VI .Bajcsy- Zsilinszky ut 37.),tavaszi sajtotajekoztatojara es az
ezt koveto kotetlen, szakmai es barati csevegesre egy jo kave vagy tea
mellett.
Bemutatjuk : Darwin: A fajok eredete c. muvenek uj forditasat
Julesz Bela: Dialogusok az eszlelesrol c. muvet
Vendegeink: Benedek Gyorgy, professzor
Csanyi Vilmos, akademikus
Kovacs Ilona, Rutgers Egyetem, New Jersey
Pleh Csaba: akademikus
Szeretettel varjuk:
Votisky Zsuzsa es munkatarsai
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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Februar 21
12:30
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E r d i P e t e r
MTA KFKI RMKI Biofizikai Osztaly
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Szamitogepes idegrendszerkutatas
Az idegrendszer a bonyolult rendszerek mintapeldaja, es mukodesenek
megertesehez valoban szukseg van mondjuk elektronmikroszkopos
(anatomiai) es mikroelektrodas (elettani) megfigyelesekre, a fogalmak
tisztazasahoz szukseges filozofiai elemzesre, a dinamikus rendszerek
elmeleten alapulo matematikai modellezesre. Ebben az eloadadban nem azt
a kerdest vizsgaljuk, hogy mennyiben tekinthetjuk - ha egyaltalan - az
agyat szamitogepnek, hanem vazlatosan bemutatunk egy szakmat
(computational neuroscience, elterjedt magyar neve nincs is egyelore),
amelynek celkituzese a realis idegrendszeri strukturak mukodesenek
matematikai modellezessel torteno megertese.
Vazlat: Idegrendszeri modellezes: alternativ strategiak Egy sejt is
bonyolult Neuronhalozatok Statisztikus neurodinamika Idegrendszeri
fejlodes Tanulas es memoria Neurologiai es pszichiatriai
rendellenessegek modellezese
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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The CEU Philosophy Doctoral Support Program cordially invites you to a =
seminar and lecture by Professor Timothy Williamson.=20
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The title is "A Priori Knowledge, Content Externalism and=20
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Abstract:
According to externalism, the content of our beliefs and other=20
propositional attitudes depends constitutively on the external=20
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this knowledge would be a priori in the sense of being non-
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article.
ON SPECIFICATION AND THE SENSES
by Thomas A. Stoffregen
and Benoit G. Bardy
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ON SPECIFICATION AND THE SENSES
Thomas A. Stoffregen
Department of Psychology
P. O. Box 210376
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0376 USA
stoffrta(a)email.uc.edu
Benoit G. Bardy
Universite de Paris Sud-XI
Division of Sport Sciences (STAPS)
Batiment 335, 91405 Orsay Cedex
FRANCE
benoit.bardy(a)staps.u-psud.fr
KEYWORDS: epistemology, information, intersensory, perception,
perceptual learning, sensory neurophysiology, sensory systems,
specification.
ABSTRACT: In this target article we question the assumption that
perception is divided into separate domains of vision, hearing,
touch, taste, and smell. We review implications of this assumption
for theories of perception, and for our understanding of ambient
energy arrays (e.g., the optic and acoustic arrays) that are
available to perceptual systems. We analyze three hypotheses about
relations between ambient arrays and physical reality; (1) that
there is an ambiguous relation between ambient energy arrays and
physical reality; (2) that there is a unique relation between
individual energy arrays and physical reality; (3) that there is a
redundant but unambiguous relation, within or across arrays,
between energy arrays and physical reality. This is followed by a
review of the physics of motion, focusing on the existence and
status of referents for physical motion. Our review indicates that
it is not possible, in principle, for there to be a unique relation
between physical motion and the structure of individual energy
arrays. We argue that physical motion relative to different
referents is specified only in the global array, which consists of
higher-order relations across different forms of energy. The
existence of specificity in the global array is consistent with the
idea of direct perception, and so poses a challenge to traditional,
inference-based theories of perception and cognition. However, it
also presents a challenge to much work within the ecological
approach to perception and action, which has accepted the
assumption of separate senses.
___________________________________________________________
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In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
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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!).
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
THE MAGICAL NUMBER 4 IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY:
A RECONSIDERATION OF MENTAL STORAGE CAPACITY
by Nelson Cowan
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Associate, please reply by EMAIL by March 7th to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
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ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
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abstract.
_____________________________________________________________
THE MAGICAL NUMBER 4 IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY:
A RECONSIDERATION OF MENTAL STORAGE CAPACITY
Nelson Cowan
Department of Psychology
University of Missouri
210 McAlester Hall
Columbia, MO 65211, USA
CowanN(a)missouri.edu
http://web.missouri.edu/~psycowan
KEYWORDS: attention, enumeration, information chunks, memory
capacity, processing capacity, processing channels, serial recall,
short-term memory, storage capacity, verbal recall, working memory
capacity.
ABSTRACT: Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can
remember about 7 chunks in short-term memory (STM) tasks. However,
that number was meant more as a rough estimate and a rhetorical
device than as a real capacity limit. Others have since suggested
that there is a more precise capacity limit, but that it is only 3
to 5 chunks. The present target article brings together a wide
variety of data on capacity limits suggesting that the smaller
capacity limit is real. Capacity limits will be useful in analyses
of information processing only if the boundary conditions for
observing them can be carefully described. Four basic conditions in
which chunks can be identified and capacity limits can accordingly
be observed are: (1) when information overload limits chunks to
individual stimulus items, (2) when other steps are taken
specifically to block the recoding of stimulus items into larger
chunks, (3) in performance discontinuities caused by the capacity
limit, and (4) in various indirect effects of the capacity limit.
Under these conditions, rehearsal and long-term memory cannot be
used to combine stimulus items into chunks of an unknown size; nor
can storage mechanisms that are not capacity-limited, such as
sensory memory, allow the capacity-limited storage mechanism to be
refilled during recall. A single, central capacity limit averaging
about 4 chunks is implicated along with other, non-capacity-limited
sources. The pure STM capacity limit expressed in chunks is
distinguished from compound STM limits obtained when the number of
separately held chunks is unclear. Reasons why pure capacity
estimates fall within a narrow range are discussed and a capacity
limit for the focus of attention is proposed.
___________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
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____________________________________________________________
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
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(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal 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!).
Elliott Sober (a Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag 2000 evi diszvendege, az
IUHPS/DLMPS fotitkara) marciusban ket eloadast tart Budapesten.
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.
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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7th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, New Bulgarian University, July 10 - 30, 2000
Courses:
=85 Distributed representations and gradual learning processes in cognition =
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Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
=85 Connectionist models of language processing - Jeff Elman (University of
California, San Diego, USA)
=85 Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli (Stanford
University)
=85 Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (University of Queensland)
=85 The Human Conceptual System - Lawrence W. Barsalou (Emory University)
=85 Topics in Vision Science - Stephen E. Palmer (University of California,
Berkeley)
=85 Cognitive Science: A Basic Science for an Applied Science of Learning -
John T. Bruer (James S. McDonnell Foundation)
=85 Psychological Scaling - Encho Gerganov (New Bulgarian University)
=85 Research Methods in Psycholinguistics - Elena Andonova (New Bulgarian
University)
=85 Research Methods in Memory and Thinking - Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian
University)
Organised by
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Bulgarian
Society for Cognitive Science
Sponsored by the Open Society Institute in Budapest - HESP Program
International Advisory Board
Participation
Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee on the bases of
their submitted documents:
=85 application form (see at the Web page),
=85 CV,
=85 statement of purpose,
=85 copy of diploma; if student - academic transcript
=85 letter of recommendation,
=85 list of publications (if any) and short summary of up to three of them.
Apply as soon as possible since the number of participants is restricted.
Send applications to:
Summer School in Cognitive Science
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
=46or more information look at:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2000.html
