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Csaba Pleh Pleh Csaba Cognitive Science Group Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Department of Psychology Pszichologiai Tanszek Attila Jozsef University Jozsef Attila Tudomanyegyetem Szeged Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary Telefon/Phone: (36)(62) 544000 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 Hungarian Review of Psychology Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle editor foszerkeszto ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:37:01 GMT From: info-psyling-digest <owner-info-psyling-digest(a)gla.ac.uk> To: info-psyling-digest(a)gla.ac.uk Subject: info-psyling-digest V1 #1 Resent-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 99 18:02:57 +100 Resent-From: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu info-psyling-digest Monday, January 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 001 This digest covers the subjects listed below (indicating also the originator): [none] ("Institute of Cognitive Science" <ics(a)louisiana.edu>) Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Language Processing ("Dr. Morten H. Christiansen" <morten(a)compute.it.siu.edu>) Graduate Openings in Brain and Cognitive Sciences ("Dr. Morten H. Christiansen" <morten(a)compute.it.siu.edu>) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:31:09 -0600 From: "Institute of Cognitive Science" <ics(a)louisiana.edu> Subject: [none] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_006B_01BF5831.253A9020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is pleased to announce the = inauguration of its Institute of Cognitive Science, which offers a Ph.D. = in Cognitive Science. The Institute of Cognitive Science emphasizes the = comparative study of human, animal and machine cognition. The ICS, one = of the university's centers of excellence, links researchers in various = university units, including the Cognitive Evolution Group, the Center = for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), and the departments of Psychology, = Communicative Disorders, English (Linguistics), Mathematics, Philosophy, = and Biology. Beginning in January of 2000, Ph.D. students will have the option to = concentrate in psycholinguistics, thus we welcome applications from = students who are interested in the study of language processing. The = NSF-funded Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the Institute is equipped for = both reaction time and eye movement experiments, and is headed by Dr. = Julie Boland. Additional expertise and advising will be available from = other faculty with active interests in language processing, including = Patricia Kilroe (English), Bill Manaris (Computer Science), & Shalini = Arehole (Communicative Disorders). Financial support for graduate students is available through the = Institute of Cognitive Science in the form of assistantships and = fellowships. This support is awarded on a competitive basis, but the = Institute currently has adequate funds to cover most students accepted = to the program. For additional information, see the ICS website, which = include links to pages with more information for prospective students: = http://www.louisiana.edu/Research/ICS/. Or contact: Dr. Todd M. Preuss, = University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science, = 4401 W. Admiral Doyle Drive, New Iberia, LA 70560, Phone: 337-482-0261, = Email: ics(a)louisiana.edu. Best Regards, Teri Gillett Administrative Assistant Institute of Cognitive Science Cognitive Evolution Group University of Louisiana at Lafayette Phone: (318) 482-0265 ICS(a)louisiana.edu Please visit our website at www.louisiana.edu/research/ics/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:12:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Dr. Morten H. Christiansen" <morten(a)compute.it.siu.edu> Subject: Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Language Processing The members of this list may be interested in the most recent issue of Cognitive Science which is a Special Issue on connectionist language processing: Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999). Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects. Special issue of Cognitive Science, Vol. 23(4), 415-634. PREFACE Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects Editors Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater & Mark S. Seidenberg This Special Issue appraises the progress made so far and the prospects for future development of connectionist models of natural language processing. This project is timely - the decade since the publication of Rumelhart & McClelland's influential PDP volumes has seen an explosive growth of connectionist modeling of natural language, ranging from models of early speech perception, to syntax and to discourse level phenomena. The breadth and variety of this work is illustrated in the review, which forms the introductory paper in the volume. How much has been achieved by this vast research effort? Part I presents some of the most recent progress by leading connectionist researchers, in a range of topics of central interest in language processing. Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson describe recent developments in connectionist models of speech perception. Plunkett & Juola report on progress in the highly controversial area of connectionist models of morphology. Tabor & Tanenhaus describe their work utilizing recurrent networks to model parsing within a dynamic perspective. Dell, Chang & Griffin provide accounts of lexical and syntactic aspects of language production. Plaut outlines recent developments in connectionist models of reading. Where Part I brings us to the forefront of current connectionist modeling of natural language processing, Part II considers the prospects for future research. Seidenberg and MacDonald argue that connectionism provides a fundamentally new way of looking at language processing and acquisition, which challenges traditional viewpoints derived from linguistics. By contrast, Smolensky attempts to synthesize lessons learned from both linguistics and connectionist research, arguing that progress will come from providing an integration of the two approaches. Steedman takes on the role as an "outside" observer, seeking to put connectionist natural language processing in perspective. Connectionist modeling has had a vast impact throughout cognitive science, and has been both most productive and most controversial in the area of natural language processing and acquisition. This issue can be used as an overview of the "state of the art" in connectionist models of natural language processing. But more important, we hope that it serves also as a contribution to the current research effort in this area, and as a stimulus to informed debate concerning future research on human natural language. TABLE OF CONTENTS (Abstracts can be found at http://siva.usc.edu/~morten/cs.SI-abtracts.html) Introduction Connectionist Natural Language Processing: The State of the Art. Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater Part I: Progress Ambiguity, Competition and Blending in Spoken Word Recognition. M. Gareth Gaskell & William D. Marslen-Wilson A Connectionist Model of English Past Tense and Plural Morphology. Kim Plunkett & Patrick Juola Dynamical Models of Sentence Processing. Whitney Tabor & Michael K. Tanenhaus Connectionist Models of Language Production: Lexical Access and Grammatical Encoding. Gary S. Dell, Franklin Chang & Zenzi M. Griffin A Connectionist Approach to Word Reading and Acquired Dyslexia: Extension to Sequential Processing. David C. Plaut Part II: Prospects A Probabilistic Constraints Approach to Language Acquisition and Processing. Mark S. Seidenberg & Maryellen C. MacDonald Grammar-based Connectionist Approaches to Language. Paul Smolensky Connectionist Sentence Processing in Perspective. Mark Steedman [Sorry, I can provide no hardcopies - for electronic copies, please contact the authors directly]. Best regards, Morten Christiansen - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Morten H. Christiansen Assistant Professor Phone: +1 (618) 453-3547 Department of Psychology Fax: +1 (618) 453-3563 Southern Illinois University Email: morten(a)siu.edu Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 Office: Life Sciences II, Room 271A Personal Web Page: http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/faculty/mhc.html Lab Web Site: http://www.siu.edu/~morten/csl - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:48:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Dr. Morten H. Christiansen" <morten(a)compute.it.siu.edu> Subject: Graduate Openings in Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dear Colleague, Please bring the following information to the attention of potential graduate school applicants from your program with an interest in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. GRADUATE PROGRAM IN BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE. The Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University has several openings for fall 2000 admission to its newly established Ph.D. program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The program emphasizes cognitive behavior approached from a combination of developmental (infancy and childhood, adolescence and aging), neurobiological (neurophysiology, neuropsychology, genetics), behavioral (human and animal experimentation) and computational (neural networks, statistical analyses) perspectives. As an integral part of their training, students become active participants in ongoing faculty research programs in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Students will receive training in two or more different research methodologies, and are expected to develop a multidisciplinary approach to their own research. Current research by the Brain and Cognitive Sciences faculty includes perinatal risk factors in child development, neurophysiological and behavioral correlates of infant and child cognitive and language development, personality and social correlates of cognitive aging, child play and social behaviors, identity development across the life span, neural network modeling of language acquisition and processing, artificial grammar learning, sentence processing, evolution of language and the brain, the pharmacological modulation of memory, effects of psychoactive drugs, reversible inactivation of discrete brain areas and memory, recovery of function from brain damage, electrophysiological models (e.g., long-term potentiation), the neurophysiology of memory, animal learning, and human learning and memory. For more information about the program and application procedures, please visit our web site at: http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/bcs Visit also the Department's web site at: http://www.siu.edu/~psycho The deadline for applications is February 1st, 2000. Complete applications received by January 15, 2000 may be considered for one of the prestigious Morris Fellowships. Best regards, Morten Christiansen Coordinator of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Morten H. Christiansen Assistant Professor Phone: +1 (618) 453-3547 Department of Psychology Fax: +1 (618) 453-3563 Southern Illinois University Email: morten(a)siu.edu Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 Office: Life Sciences II, Room 271A Personal Web Page: http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/faculty/mhc.html Lab Web Site: http://www.siu.edu/~morten/csl - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of info-psyling-digest V1 #1 ********************************

26 years, 4 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, Ambrus-Lakatos L.

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ Januar 17 12:30 6. em. 6.54 A m b r u s - L a k a t o s L o r a n d CEU, Departments of Political Science and Economics VAN FRAASSEN ON EMPIRICISM VERSUS PRAGMATISM IN EPISTEMOLOGY In his paper "Belief and the Will", Bastian van Fraassen presents a framework for the understanding of Empiricist epistemology, and this is the model of Bayesian information processing. Analyzing this framework, he continues, makes us realize that one also has to posit that the Empiricist owes a certain sort of commitment to his own epistemic stances. And this in turn raises the issue of how the Empiricist could make practical decisions concerning what his correct beliefs should be. I argue, however, that the model of Bayesian information processing cannot in general serve the purpose of being a model for Empiricist epistemology. My argument employs a close inspection of the implicit epistemological presuppositions behind the Bayesian model. It also involves a discussion of the implications of the so-called Harsanyi doctrine for the formulation of the Bayesian decision problem. Ha mindenki beszel magyarul, akkor az eloadas magyarul lesz! 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

26 years, 5 months

Random House's 100 (fwd)

by George Kampis

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:10:26 -0000 From: srlclark <srlclark(a)EASYNET.CO.UK> To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK Subject: Random House's 100 Random House has announced its list of 100 best non-fiction works first published in English during 1900-99 (the famous 99-year century). http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/list.html It's an odd list. Here are the (broadly) *philosophical* works with their numbers. The top book, by way of contrast, is: 1. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams 2. The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James 17. The Proper Study of Mankind, Isaiah Berlin 18. The Nature and Destiny of Man, Reinhold Niebuhr 23. Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell 28. A Theory of Justice, John Rawls 32. Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore 33. Philosophy and Civilization, John Dewey 64. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper 69. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn 98. The Taming of Chance, Ian Hacking They ask for other suggestions on the website cited above.

26 years, 5 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, S z e k e l y L.

by László E. Szabó

26 years, 5 months

Fwd: A MAKOG VIII jelentkezesi lapja

by Gergely Csibra

> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:07:59 +0100 (MET) > From: Csaba PLEH <pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu> > > > ELNEZEST KERUNK AZOKTOL, AKIK MAR KAPTAK SZEMELYES LEVELET IS, KERJUK > ETTOL TEKINTSENEK EL. > > 2000 februar 4-6-ig megrendszesre kerul a Magyar Megismerestudomanyi > Tarsasag evi konferenciaja A KOGNITIV FUNKCIOK FEJLODESE ES ZAVARAI > cimmel. A programot ujra kuldjuk egy masik levelben. > > Szeretettel varunk minden erdeklodo hallgatot, az eloadasok > latogatasa ingyenes. > > Helyszin: Tisza Szallo, Szeged > > 7000 Ft elleneben a kovetkezoket tudjuk az eloadasok latogatasan > felul biztositani: > - hivatalos regisztracio > - absztrakt-kotet > - a tarsasagi programokon torteno reszvetel > - 2 ejszakara szallas, 3 agyas szobakban (ket agyas eseteben 2000 > Ft/fo/ejszaka plussz koltseg) > - ebed, vacsora (a szallodahoz reggeli jar) > Kerjuk, akinek specialis igenye van (vegetarianus, diabetikus) az most > elore jelezze. > > Diakoknak kedvezmeny: 7000 Ft helyett 5000 Ft. Szinten 5000 Ft-ot > kell fizetni akkor is, ha valaki nem ker szallast, de regisztralni es > etkezni szeretne (diakoknak az utobbi esetben 3000 Ft). > > Jelentkezesi hatarido: 2000 januar 15. > > > Kerjuk, jelentkezeseteket Keri Szabolcs cimere kuldjetek elektronikusan. > > > szkeri(a)phys.szote.u.szeged.hu > > Fizetesi mod: keszpenzben a helyszinen, regisztraciokor. > Szamlat termesztesen tudunk adni. > > > Szerettel varunk mindenkit, > > udvozlettel > > > Pleh Csaba > > > >

26 years, 5 months

Boldog Karacsonyt A MAKOG VIII VEGSO programjaval

by Csaba PLEH

Kedves Kognitiv Barataink ! Mindenkinek bekes unnepeket es fenyes uj evezredet kivanunk. A MAKOG VIII. programra boldogitoan sokan jelentzekztetek. Ezert Adam-Eva napjan, az igert hatarido elott egy hettel lezarjuk az aktiv jelentkezest. Lathato, hogy megi igy is at kellett cusznubnk a vasarnap deli orkba, ami persze orvendetes is. Az alabbi tehat a 20000. evi, VIII. Magyar Kognitiv Tudomanyi ongresszus vegleges programja. Technika, a regisztracioval es a hellyel (SZEGED, TISZA SZALLO) kapcsolatos levelet mindenki kap meg szemelyesen. Ez a level most csak a szakmai rogram vegleges anyaga. Kerjuk, terjesszetek. A szervezok neveben Keri Szabolcs es Pleh Csaba A kongresszus temaja: A MEGISMERESI FOLYAMATOK FEJLODESE ES ZAVARAI Febr 4, pentek 8-12 Regisztracio 12-13 Csanyi V: A kognitiv funkciok fejlodese: ido, ritus, tudat 13-14.40 Ebed 14.40-16.10 Pleh Cs: A gondolatok terjedesi mechanizmusai: memek vagy fertozesek? Dankovics N: Anaforikus ketertelmuseg es kauzalis semak a megertesben Zsigmond I: Metakognitiv strategiak es analogias transzfer 16.10-16.20 Kaveszunet 16.20-17.50 Nemeth R: Munkamemoria es mondatmegertes: garden-path mondatok feldolgozasa a magyar nyelvben Gyori M es mtsai: Mentalizacio es nyelvi pragmatika autizmussal elo magasan funkcionalo szemelyeknel: reprezentacios vagy performancia deficit? Ivasko L: Az afazias nyelvhasznalat sikertelensegeinek okairol 17.50-18 Kaveszunet 18-19 Sandor K es Kampis Gy: Evolucios nyelveszet 19- Vacsora es egyebek Febr 5, szombat 9-10 Csibra G: A "kompetens csecsemo" es a fogalmi fejlodes folytonossaga 10-12 Benedek Gy: A magnocellularis latorendszer fejlodese Kallai J es Karadi K: A teri tajekozodas fejlodese: neuropszichologiai megkozelites Karadi K es mtsai: Nemi kulonbseg a kez mentalis rotacioban 9 eves gyermekeknel es fiatal felnotteknel Kiraly I: Az oneletrajzi emlekezet kialakulasa: kisgyermekek esemenyemlekezete 12-14 Ebed 14-16.30 Erdi P: Neuronalis es kognitiv rendellenessegek, mint "dinamikus betegsegek" Szalisznyo K: Az Alzheimer es a Down kor neuropatologiai osszefuggeseirol Horvath J es mtsai: Lokalis es globalis szabalyok reprezentacioja a hallorendszerben Antal A es Keri Sz: "Fast-track" analizis a human latorendszerben Beniczky S es Vecsei L: A szomatoszenzoros kivaltott valaszok kesoi komponenseinek disszocialhatosagarol: klinikai esettanulmany 16.30-16.40 Kaveszunet 16.40-17 Keri Sz: Kognitiv pszichofarmakologia, avagy a mentalis strukturatol a genregulacioig 17-17.20 Szendi I: Kognitv funkciok felterkepezesenek jelentosege a modern pszichiatriaban 17.20-17.50 Herold R es mtsai: Tudatelmeleti deficit remisszioban levo schizophreneknel 17.50-19.10 Kovacs Z A es Janka Z: Hipnotikus transz befolyasa a zenei elmenyre 19.10- Vacsora Febr 6, vasarnap 9-10 Czigler I: Kognitiv valtozasok fenott korban 10-12 Racsmany M: A felejtes gyumolcsei: az emlekezeti gatlas szerepe a megismeresben Peley B: Beavatasi ritusok es serdulokori identitas Tozser J: A szkeptikus Wittgenstein Kiss Sz: A targyfogalom kialakulasa az egyedfejlodes soran 12-12.10 Kaveszunet 12.10-14.10 Albert J: Neuronhalozatok ontogenezisenek modellezese evolucios algoritmus segitsegevel Lehmann M: A rozsa neve. Adalek a nyelvi vs. perceptualis reprezentaciok kerdesehez Satcho L: Egy ujfajta zenetudomany fele: az elso lepesek a megismereskutatas, a mesterseges intelligencia es a zenetudomany metszetteruleten Szabo R: Mobil robotok szimulacioja

26 years, 5 months

Boldog Karacsonyt

by Csaba PLEH

Kedves Mindenki ! Boldog Karacsonyt s Uj Evet kivanok magam s a szegedi kognitiv csoport neveben. Pleh csaba p.s. A MAKOG hirek hamarosan finalizalt formaban erkeznek, kezben van a dolog. Nezzetek meg uj web helyunket www.deltav.hu/home/kognitiv Csaba Pleh Pleh Csaba Cognitive Science Group Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Department of Psychology Pszichologiai Tanszek Attila Jozsef University Jozsef Attila Tudomanyegyetem Szeged Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary Telefon/Phone: (36)(62) 544000 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 Hungarian Review of Psychology Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle editor foszerkeszto

26 years, 5 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, Januari program

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ 2000, januar Januar 10 12:30 6. em. 6.54 S z e k e l y L a s z l o MTA, Filozofiai Intezet LASSABBAN JARNAK-E AZ ORAK? -- A relativitaselmelet oraparadoxona es a fizikai relatitas -- A paradoxon fogalmi elemzese Eloadasom kiindulopontja az a tetel, mely e szeminarium-sorozat kereteben korabban elhangzott eloadas allapontja volt: a relativitaselmelet matematikai folepitese koherens, hibatlan, belso ellentmondasok nem talalhatoak benne. Azok a paradoxonok, amelyek ilyen belso ellentmondasokra utalnak, valojaban latszatparadoxonok, megfelelo matematikai es logikai elemzessel eltavolithatoak. Ugyanakkor az eloadas amellett fog ervelni, hogy a relativitaselmelet koncepcioja a fizikai realitasrol fogalmilag inkoherens. Maskeppen foglamazva: ezen elmelet fogalmi rendszere keptelen koherens kepet adni arrol, ami fizikailag realis. Hangsulyozzuk, hogy e fogalmi inkoherencia nem erinti az elmelet matematikai tokeletesseget, sem kalkulativ-praktikus hasznalhatosagat. Am ha ezt az elmeletet tobbnek tekintjuk olyan matematikai eszkoznel, illetve gepezetnel, melynek segitsegevel sikeresen kiszamolhatjuk a fizikai vilag torteneseit - azaz ha csak a legszolidabb ertelemben is fizikai vilagkepet varunk tole - ohatatlanul szembekerulunk ezzel az inkoherenciaval. Ez a fogalmi inkoherencia az oraparadoxonban jelenik meg, s valoszinuleg sehol mashol. Elsosorban ez az, amely miatt furcsanak tunik ez az elmelet - ha nem csak szamolgatunk benne, es ujongunk azon, hogy a szamitasok eredmenyei egybeesnek a megfigyelesekkel, hanem gondolkodunk is folotte. Mi tobb, a relativitaselmelet tokeletes es sikeres matematikaja korul kialakitott, es az elmelet tudomanyos kifejteseiben is jelen levo sajatos fogalmi mitologia is fokeppen e fogalmi inkoherenciabol taplalkozik. Az oraparadoxont a kozvelemeny megoldottnak hiszi. Meg fogjuk mutatni, hogy a paradoxonnak valojaban harom szintje van: a trivialis szint, az einsteini szint es egy harmadik szint, melyet "Dicke-fele szint"-nek fogunk nevezni. E harmadik szinten pedig a paradoxon fennall es eltavolithatatlan. Eloadasunk vegen roviden kiterunk arra a gondolkodastorteneti mozzantara, hogy Einstein eredetileg be szerette volna eptiteni a Mach-elvet elmeletebe. A Mach-elv ketsegen kivul egyfajta relativitast kepvisel, am megsem ugy, amikeppen errol Einstein elmelete kapcsan szokas beszelni. A Mach-elv ugyanis ohatatlanul involval egyfajta kituntetett rendszert es valosagos valtozasokat ott, ahol ilyeneket az ortodox relativitaselmelet nem ismer el. Hipotetikusan folvetjuk, hogy Einsteinben talan sohasem tisztazodott igazan a Mach-elv ertelmeben vett es az o elmeleteben megvalosult relativitas kulonbozosege. Mindez osszefuggesben van az oraparadoxon harmadik szintjen jelentkezo problemaval. Mivel az oraparadoxon fogalmi paradoxon, tevut minden olyan elemzes, mely ide keveri az empiriat, illetve ugy veli, hogy a paradoxon empirkus vizsgalatok segitsegevel oldhato fel, vagy bizonyithato annak az einsteini elmelet szempontjaboli "halalos"volta. Elemzesunk szigoruan foglami jellegu elemzes lesz, mely elhatarolodik az ilyen folfogasoktol. Januar 17 12:30 6. em. 6.54 A m b r u s - L a k a t o s L o r a n d CEU, Departments of Political Science and Economics VAN FRAASSEN ON EMPIRICISM VERSUS PRAGMATISM IN EPISTEMOLOGY In his paper "Belief and the Will", Bastian van Fraassen presents a framework for the understanding of Empiricist epistemology, and this is the model of Bayesian information processing. Analyzing this framework, he continues, makes us realize that one also has to posit that the Empiricist owes a certain sort of commitment to his own epistemic stances. And this in turn raises the issue of how the Empiricist could make practical decisions concerning what his correct beliefs should be. I argue, however, that the model of Bayesian information processing cannot in general serve the purpose of being a model for Empiricist epistemology. My argument employs a close inspection of the implicit epistemological presuppositions behind the Bayesian model. It also involves a discussion of the implications of the so-called Harsanyi doctrine for the formulation of the Bayesian decision problem. Ha mindenki beszel magyarul, akkor az eloadas magyarul lesz! Januar 24 12:30 6. em. 6.54 G. H a v a s K a t a l i n akademikus, MTA ELLENTMONDASOK ES INKONZISZTENCIAK A TUDOMANYOKBAN Mi tortenjen azzal a tudomanyos rendszerrel, amelyben a vizsgalodasok folyaman ellentmondas fedezodott fel? E kerdes megvalaszolasara torekszik a parakonzisztens logika. N. C. A. Da Costa meghatarozasa szerint: T elmeletet akkor nevezzuk inkonzisztensnek ha legalabb egy olyan tetelt tartalmaz, amelynek a tagadasa is tetele T-nek. A "tagadas" es ebbol kovetkezoen az "inkonzisztencia" es az "ellentmondas" kategoriaknak es ezek viszonyanak igen kulonbozo ertelmezese van. Arisztotelesz ellentmondas torvenyenek harom ertelmezeset emlitem meg, majd elemzem ezek viszonyat a dialektikus ellentmondas kulonbozo ertelmezeseihez. E viszonyrol a parakonzisztens logikai munkakban egeszen kulonbozo nezetek olvashatok. Tehat, a jelzett kerdes megvalaszolasahoz arra van szukseg, hogy megprobaljuk feltarni milyen tipusu az az ellentmondas, amely az adott tudomanyos rendszerben felfedezodott. Nehany tudomanyos rendszert peldakent hasznalva igyekszem ezt megmutatni. Az eloadas soran felhasznalasra kerulo publikacioim: Logic and Dialectic. Essays in the Philosophy of Logic. Budapest, Inst. of Phil., 1990, 1- 129. Dialectic and Inconsistency in Knowledge Acquisition. Studies in Soviet Thought 1990, pp. 189-198. Do we Tolerate Inconcistencies?, Dialectica 1993. Fasc. 1. pp. 27 -35 Continuity and Change: Kinds of Negation in Scientific Progress, in Theories and Models in Scientific Processes. Rodopi. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. 1995, Vol. 44, pp. 169 - 175. Mathematics and Logics. Hungarian Traditions and the Philosophy of Non-classical Logic, in Philosophy of Mathematics Today. Kluwer Academic Publ., 1996. 337-351. Changing the World - Changing the Meaning. On the Meanings of the "Principle of Non-Contradiction". In the World of Signs. Essays in honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc Rodopi 1998 pp. 49 - 55 Do we need to search for the only true world view? In Foundations of Science Volume 3, Number 2, 1998/1999. Pp. 359-373. Januar 31 12:30 6. em. 6.54 F a r k a s K a t a l i n Eotvos, Department of Philosophy THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL I think that understanding free will raises a serious problem, and I must admit I have no solution for it. As a matter of fact, nor I have anything particularly novel or original to say about free will. I intend this talk merely as a starting point for discussion (and accordingly, I hope to keep it reasonably short). The problem, in my view, is this: we have free will, but as I shall argue briefly, compatibilist theories of free will - that is, theories which claim that free will and determinism are compatible - are unsatisfactory. This leaves libertarianism: the view that we have free will, and it is incompatible with determinism, therefore determinism must be false. However, the main difficulty has been to understand HOW libertarianism could make the phenomenon of free will intelligible. If we claim - what is only natural - that our beliefs and desires cause our actions, then psychological determinism seems to offer the best interpretation of our ordinary decision-making procedures. The only alternative to deterministic explanation seems to be explanation by randomness or chance - which is hardly what we expect to account for free choice. I shall present a little idea which might point towards a solution - but then again, just like a fair number of proposed solutions, it may easily prove to be a simple relabelling of the problem. Ha mindenki beszel magyarul, akkor az eloadas magyarul lesz! 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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by Pleh Csaba

Kedves Kellegak ! A 2000 februaru MAKOG elozetes programja valamint a szegedi Megismerestudomanyi Muhelky programjai megtalalhatoak egy uj, meg alakulo honlapunkon www.deltav.hu/home/kognitiv Udvozlettel Pleh Csaba Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh Megismerestudmanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology JATE U. Szeged Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology foszerkeszto edito Szeged Petofi sgt. 30, H-6722 Hungary Home: Budakeszi, Zichy P. u 4, 2092 Phone: (36)(23)453933,06203278922 Fax: (36)(23)453932 email: pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu Homepage: www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~pleh

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AUTONOMOUS BRAIN/Milner: PSYC Call for Book Reviewers (673 lines)

by Stevan Harnad

PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS Below is the Abstract of "The Autonomous Brain" by Peter M Milner This book has been selected for multiple review in Psycoloquy. If you wish to submit a formal book review please write to psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book if you were selected to review it. (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews. FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ Psycoloquy reviews are of the book not the Precis. Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs. AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE REVIEW: "I hope this book will attract the attention of psychologists, philosophers and others interested in the mind, to some advances in neuroscience that are relevant to cognition. In particular, I think the idea that the neural processes involved in motivation and intention play an essential role in the learning of percepts should be more widely recognised. I acknowledge that no single person can hope to be well informed about the entire fields of neuroscience and cognition and it is my hope that multiple reviews of the work by experts may expose the inevitable inaccuracies and gaps, providing a partial substitute for multiple authorship. Having a number of reviews in one readily accessible place would provide a valuable resource for the reader." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- psycoloquy.99.10.071.autonomous-brain.1.milner Mon Dec 20 1999 ISSN 1055-0143 (50 paragraphs, 20 references, 620 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1999 Peter M Milner THE AUTONOMOUS BRAIN [Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.155 pp. ISBN: 0-8058-3211-4] Precis of Milner on Autonomous-Brain Peter M. Milner McGill University Department of Psychology 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave. Montreal, QC. CANADA H3A 1B1 ps64(a)musica.mcgill.ca ABSTRACT: This book presents a theory of behaviour based on the premise that nervous systems have evolved to enable animals to engage in a variety of useful activities. Information about the outside world is essential for most of these activities, but the theory that sensory input must shape its own information processing system is rejected. After the behaviourists banished the immaterial self from psychology they replaced it by stimulus input, and for many years behaviour was attributed entirely to sensory input. Only recently has the notion started to develop that it is the response mechanism of the brain that determines what stimuli are required to perform an action. In the model presented here, an executive system located in the frontal region of the brain employs the extensive reciprocal connections of the sensory cortex to select the input needed to guide the motor system. The consequences of having an autonomous response planner, instead of one subservient to outside stimuli, are far reaching. Neural representations of broad categories that can coexist with multiple distinct subclasses, and the related phenomenon of stimulus equivalence, become easier to understand, for example. It may also enable us to understand why we usually think that we make our own decisions. The book also has suggestions about the way serial order is learned and the role of the frontal regions of the brain in reinforcement, expectancy and response planning. KEYWORDS: association of ideas, attention, behaviour model, intention, motivation, self, serial order Full text of Precis of book available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.071 or ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1999.volume.10/ psyc.99.10.071.autonomous-brain.1.milner

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