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
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info-psyling-digest Monday, January 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 001
This digest covers the subjects listed below
(indicating also the originator):
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("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>)
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:31:09 -0600
From: "Institute of Cognitive Science" <ics(a)louisiana.edu>
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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/.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
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________________________________________________
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.
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
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
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
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Hungarian Review of Psychology Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle
editor foszerkeszto
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
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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
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Montreal, QC. CANADA
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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
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