Kedves Kollegak, minden erdeklodot szerettel varunk, udv kgy
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Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A, 6. emelet 658.
Tudomanyfilozofia Szeminariumai
Februari program
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Februar 11.
6. em. 662
Bene Gyula
ELTE Elmeleti Fizikai Tanszek
Levezetheto-e a klasszikus fizika a kvantumelmeletbol?
A jelenlegi kvantumelmeletben a klasszikus fizika torvenyeinek eleget
tevo testek (pl. meroeszkozok) letezese fizikai alapfelteveskent
szerepel, igy a klasszikus tulajdonsagok eredetere kvantumelmeleti
magyarazat nem adhato. Az eloadasban egy onallo elvekre epulo modositott
kvantumelmeletet mutatunk be, amely lehetove teszi a problema
vizsgalatat. A cimben feltett kerdesre egyszeru modelleken vegzett
szamitasok segitsegevel igyekszunk valaszt talalni.
Februar 18.
6. em. 662
Simon Andras
BME Matematikai Intezet
Hogyan lesz a logikabol matematika?
(Informalis bevezetes az univerzalis algebrai logikaba)
A cimben felvetett kerdest termeszetesen sokfelekeppen meg lehet
valaszolni, de az eloadasban az algebrai logika altal kinalt valaszokra
fogok koncentralni. Szo lesz egy (meglehetosen tag) logikafogalomrol
(peldakkal illusztralva), es egy olyan eljarasrol, amellyel logikakhoz
algebraosztalyokat rendelhetunk oly modon, hogy a logika tulajdonsagai
(Craig interpolacio, Beth definialhatosag,...) tukrozodnek az eredmenyul
kapott algebraosztalyok algebrai tulajdonsagaiban (szuperamalgamacio,
epimorfizmusok szurjektivitasa,...). Logikai problemakbol igy
szellemukben is algebrai, es igy standard algebrai eszkozokkel
megkozelitheto problemakat kapunk. Igy a kovetkezo modszert kapjuk
logikai problemak megoldasara: (1) A problemat transzformaljuk az
algebra nyelvere. (2) Felhasznalva az algebra kiterjedt eszkoztarat,
megoldjuk az algebraizalt problemat. (3) Az eredmenyt
visszatranszformaljuk a logika nyelvere. Ez hosszutavon varhatoan egy
olyan dualitaselmelet kidolgozasahoz vezet, mely a logikai rendszerek
vilaga (kategoriaja) es az "algebra vilaga" (kvazivarietasok
kategoriaja) kozott hat es bizonyos fokig hasonlit pl. a (Boole algebrak
es topologikus terek kozotti) Stone-fele dualitaselmeletre. Az
eloadasban vazolt megkozelites legalabbis Tarski munkaira vezetheto
vissza, de kozvetlenul Andreka, Blokk, Nemeti, Pigozzi es Sain
eredmenyeire epit.
Februar 25.
A szeminarium a Neumann-workshop miatt elmarad!
A workshop elozetes programjat itt mellekeljuk.
Helye: P48/A (Kis Konferencia Terem az alagsorban)
Preliminary Announcement
John von Neumann and the foundations of quantum mechanics
Workshop, February 25-26, 1999
Organized by
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University
Institute Vienna Circle
Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies (Vienna) and
its Branch Office Budapest
Program:
February 25
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9.00-10.00 "The historical roots of mathematical physics
in Goettingen"
U. Majer, Univerity of Goettingen, Germany
10.00-11.00 "Quantum mechanics without probabilities"
P. Mittelstaedt, University of Cologne, Germany
11.00-11.30 Coffe break
11.30-12.30 "Von Neumann's theory of quantum measurement"
J. Bub, University of Maryland, USA
13.00-14.30 lunch
14.30-15.30 "Von Neumann's concept of quantum logic"
M. Redei, Eotvos University
15.30-16.00 Coffe break
16.00-17.00 "Reflections on quantum logic"
L. E. Szabo, Eotvos University
February 26
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9.00-10.00 "Opportunistic axiomatics -- von Neumann on the methodology
of mathematical physics"
M. Stoeltzner, Institute Vienna Circle, Austria
10.00-11.00 "Goedel and Von Neumann"
K. Koehler, Institute Vienna Circle, Austria
11.00-11.30 Coffe break
11.30-12.30 "Von Neumann, Goedel, and quantum incompleteness"
T. Breuer, University of Salzburg, Austria
13.00-14.30 lunch
14.30-15.30 Video about von Neumann
15.30-16.00 Coffee
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--
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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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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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:01:35 +0000
From: Steve Fuller <Steve.Fuller(a)DURHAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: A Forum for Discussion of the History of the Philosophy of
Science <HOPOS-L(a)LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
To: HOPOS-L(a)LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Polish Epistemology summer school (contact points at end of message)
This year in Poland it is going to be held the SECOND SUMMER SCHOOL FOR
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE, devoted to problems related both to theory of
knowledge and philosophy of science. It has a good chance to become an
annual meeting.
We need good candidates and would be very grateful if you could to convey
information about the meeting to those who are interested in the theory of
knowledge (Ph.D. students and young scholars, in particular) and to
encourage them to apply to the School.
The information about the School is put below and (more detailed) in the
attached file. It is also available at our web-page:
http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~zlimn/school
We would be also obliged for any further suggestions, addresses and
contacts.
Please accept in advance my apologies for any inconvenience that my request
may have brought about.
Faithfully yours
Anna Szczesna (Organizing Committee)
SECOND SCHOOL FOR THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
TIME AND PLACE: Madralin (near Warsaw), Poland, 10- 19 August 1999. It will
end just before the Cracow Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy
of Science.
PROGRAM: The main courses are going to be:
(1) Dagfinn Follesdal "Meaning and Experience";
(2) Gurol Irzik "Kuhn's Linguistic Turn and Its Significance for
Philosophy of Science";
(3) Sten Lindstrom "Dynamic of Belief"
(4) Ernest Sosa "Contextualism and Naturalism in Epistemology";
CONDITIONS (They do NOT apply to invited speakers whose expenses are
covered by organizers):
1. The cost of participation is 500 USD = the participation fee (100 USD -
not refundable) + the accommodation charge (400 USD). However we expect
that we should be able to pay 100 USD for some contributions, which would
cover 100 USD fee.
2. There are 10 stipends (which can be divided into partial ones) but ONLY
for participants from the former so-called "socialist countries). We
(reasonably!) hope that the number of the stipends will be increased.
DEADLINE: April 30, 1999.
E-MAIL CONTACTS: caracol1(a)psk2.am.lodz.pl; fishy(a)ramzes.umcs.lublin.pl;
jacekm(a)cc.uni.torun.pl
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:28:54 +0000
From: Stephen Clark <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: conference on Mind (fwd)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:39:27 +0000 (BST)
From: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist(a)kcl.ac.uk>
>> From: "Robert L. Campbell" <campber(a)CLEMSON.EDU>
Mind 4
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, August 16-20, 1999
Theme: "Two Sciences of Mind"
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Bernard Baars
David Galin
Karl Pribram
Stuart Hammeroff
Kathy McGovern
Steven Nachmanovitch
Jacob Needleman
Program Committee:
Bernard Baars
Mark Bickhard
Robert Campbell
Christian de Quincey
Stuart Hammeroff
Paul Mc Kevitt
Kathy McGovern
Steven Nachmanovitch
Jacob Needleman
Sean O Nuallain
Yoshi Nakamura
Max Velmans
Terry Winegar
Keynote addresses:
Jabob Needleman: "Inner and Outer Empiricism in Consciousness Research"
Bernard Baars: "The Compassionate Implications of Brain Imaging of
Conscious Pain: New Vistas in Applied Cognitive Science."
Stream 1: Outer and Inner empiricism in consciousness research
This stream will feature papers that attempt to show how "inner" states can
be elucidated with reference to external phenomena. "Inner empiricism"
designates experience, or qualia. They are shaped (somehow) by brain
processes or states which sense and interpret the external phenomena. The
physical nature of these processes or states may tell us much about
consciousness. Likewise, the argument that we are conscious of only one
thing at a time because of the gating action of the nuclei reticularis
thalami (Taylor, Baars, etc) is indicative of the kind
of thinking we are trying to encourage. In this vein, pain experience and
its imperfect relationship to neural activity are similarly relevant. We
particularly welcome papers that feature empirical data, or, lacking these
data, show a grasp of the range of disciplines necessary to do justice to
the topic.
Papers are also invited that
- Interpret qualia in terms of a quantum-mechanics based panpsychism (or,
in current terms,
pan-protopsychism)
- Establish links with developments like Whitehead's pan-experientialism
and process thought
-Interrelate physiological processes at the neural level with current
thought in QM
- Emphasize "relational empiricism", ie second-person considerations
- Investigate the brain processes or states giving rise to qualia at
whatever level the writer considers appropriate (eg intra-cellular
cytoskeletal activities and/or quantum-level phenomena).
- Involve studies of central pain states as well as other curiosities like
allodynia, spontaneous analgesia, pain asymbolia, and hypnotic analgesia.
The invited talks include:
David Galin "The Experience of 'Spirit' in Cognitive Terms."
Stuart Hameroff "Quantum Computing and Consciousness"
Steve Nachmanovitch "Creativity and Consiousness"
Each of these talks will be followed by a panel discussion discussing
respectively, consciousness as explored experientially, through scientific
investigation, and in the arts.
Stream 2: Foundations of Cognitive Science
Co-chairs:
Sean O Nuallain
Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
(sonualla(a)compapp.dcu.ie)
Robert L. Campbell
Department of Psychology, Clemson University,
Clemson, SC USA
(campber(a)clemson.edu)
WHAT THE STREAM IS ABOUT
Though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have always
been prevalent in Cognitive Science--they arise whenever an attempt is made
to define CS as a discipline--they have frequently been downrated by
researchers, in favor of empirical work that remains safely within the
confines of established theories and methods.
Our goal to is redress the balance. We encourage participants in this
stream to raise and discuss such questions as:
* the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind
* the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures that
encode structures out
in the environment
* the consequences of excluding emotions, consciousness, and the social
realm from the purview of cognitive studies
* the consequences of Newell and Simon's "scientific bet" that
developmental constraints do not have to be studied until detailed models
of adult cognition have been constructed and tested
* the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic
A wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome, so long as the
presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the proponents
of perspectives that are different from their own:
* Vygotskian approaches to culture and cognition
* Dynamic Systems theories
* Piagetian constructivism
* interactivism
* neuroscience accounts such as those of Edelman and Grossberg
* accounts of emergence in general, and emergent knowledge in particular
* perception and action robotics
* functional linguistics
* genetic algorithms
* Information Procesing
* connectionism
* evolutionary epistemology
********************
Contributors will be asked to submit short papers (3000 word limit) in
the form of ASCII text files (HTML files are also welcome, but are
optional) to Robert Campbell (for stream 2) and Sean O Nuallain (stream 1).
The deadline is March 1, 1999. We will email notification of acceptance or
rejection by April 1.
The standard presentations during the streams will be 20-minute talks and
poster sessions.
***********
The "MIND" conferences have normally had their proceedings published by
John Benjamins. We have already been approached by prospective publishers
for Mind 4. All accepted papers and posters will be included in a preprint.
Robert L. Campbell
Professor, Psychology
Brackett Hall 410A
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1511 USA
phone (864) 656-4986
fax (864) 656-0358
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html
Editor, Dialogues in Psychology
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/dialogues.html
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:30:04 +0000
From: Stephen Clark <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: workshop on logic (fwd)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:39:27 +0000 (BST)
From: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist(a)kcl.ac.uk>
>> From: Dov Gabbay <dg(a)dcs.kcl.ac.uk>
***** WORKSHOP ON PROOF THEORY FOR CONDITIONAL AND NON-MONOTONIC LOGIC
******
DOV GABBAY AND HOWARD BARRINGER
Conditional logic and non-monotonic logic are central areas in philosophy,
computer science and language. Moreover, the connection between
non-monotonic consequence "A entails B" and the conditional "A>B" is well
known, so too are the formal similarities between the conditional and
substuctural implications.
The semantic modelling (possible worlds, probabilistic, translational,
etc) of the conditional and non-monotonic consequence seems to be
relatively well developed but not much work has been done on the
proof-theoretic aspects.
Put simply, we need systems which can do the following:
Given a (non-monotonic/conditional) database Delta and given a formula C
(which could be of the form A>B ), we need formal but intuitive
algorithmic, proof procedures (e.g. tableaux, Gentzen, goal directed, LDS
etc.) for determining whether D follows from Delta . Furthermore, we need
to correlate different such proof systems within the landscape of known
semantically presented conditional /non-monotonic logics.
This workshop calls for papers in this area covering some of (but not
exclusively) of the topics below:
* proof rules for conditional/non-monotonic logics;
* connections between non-monotonic consequence and conditionals;
* connections with belief revision and the Ramsey test (no triviality
result holds if the database is non-monotonic);
* time, action and the conditional;
* conditional proof theory compared to substructural proof theory;
* translations of conditional systems into classical and/or modal logic;
* labelled proof systems for conditional logic;
* executable conditional logic.
The workshop will take place during the second week of the ESSLLI Summer
School (August 16-20, 1999) and allows for up to 12 30-45 minute
lectures.
The ESSLLI Summer School is organized under the auspices of the
European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).
Previous ESSLLI Summer Schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The
school has developed into an important meeting place and forum
for discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.
For more information see <http://esslli.let.uu.nl>.
Good papers from the workshop will be published either as a volume in
one of Dov Gabbay's book series or as a special issue in one of the
journals for which he is an editor (e.g. JLC or IGPL).
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copy or
e-mail (plain ASCII or (La)TeX) .
SUBMISSION DETAILS AND DATES AS FOLLOWS:
* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS march 15,99
* SUBMIT TO
Jane Spurr , Department of computer science , King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS.
It is preferable to submit electronically to jane(a)dcs.kcl.ac.uk.
* NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE : May 15,99
* FURTHER NOTE
Papers submitted to the workshop can also be considered, if the author
so wishes, as a regular submission to any of Dov Gabbay's journals.
professor D M Gabbay
Dept of computer Science
King's College
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Telephone + 44 171 873 5090
Fax + 44 171 240 1071
Latex or postscript files send to Jane Spurr jane(a)dcs.kcl.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:42:37 +0100
From: Lorenzo Cuna <lorenzocuna(a)USA.NET>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: Updated Swif - Call for Papers Service
Swif - Call for Papers Service
(With apologies for duplicate posting)
Please FORWARD
Dear List Member,
The International Archive for Call for Papers in Philosophy Service has just
been updated with some new entries. It is available at:
http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/cfp/cfp.htm .
For comments and suggestions, please send an email to lorenzocuna(a)usa.net
Best regards,
Lorenzo Cuna
______________________________
Lorenzo Cuna
Email: lorenzocuna(a)usa.net
Swif Bibliografie filosofiche:
http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/bibliografie/biblio.htm
Swif Call for Papers:
http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/cfp/cfp.htm
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies at the bottom of this message) ***
NICHE CONSTRUCTION, BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL CHANGE.
by Kevin N Laland
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please send EMAIL to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
_____________________________________________________________
NICHE CONSTRUCTION, BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL CHANGE.
Kevin N Laland
Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour,
University of Cambridge,
Madingley,
Cambridge CB3 8AA,
United Kingdom.
http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
knl1001(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk
John Odling-Smee
Institute of Biological Anthropology,
University of Oxford,
58 Banbury Road,
Oxford OX2 6QS,
United Kingdom.
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/oxro/ad.htm
john.odling-smee(a)bioanthropology.ox.ac.uk
Marcus W Feldman
Department of Biological Sciences,
Herrin Hall,
Stanford University,
Stanford,
CA 94305-5020,
USA.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology
marc%wright(a)forsythe.stanford.edu
ABSTRACT: We propose a model to map the causal pathways relating
biological evolution to cultural change. Building on conventional
evolutionary theory, the model emphasises the capacity of organisms
to modify sources of natural selection in their environment (niche
construction); the evolutionary dynamic can also be broadened to
incorporate ontogenetic and cultural processes, with phenotypes
playing a much more active role in evolution. The model sheds light
on hominid evolution, the evolution of culture, altruism and
cooperation. Culture amplifies the capacity of human beings to
modify sources of natural selection in their environments to the
point where that capacity raises some new questions about the
processes of human adaptation.
KEYWORDS: Niche construction, gene-culture coevolution, human
evolution, evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, adaptation.
____________________________________________________________
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.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.laland.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.laland
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.laland
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp ftp.princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.laland
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
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*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
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(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
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(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.
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(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/
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(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.uk [MAY BE USED NOW FOR SUBMITTING]
http://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/ [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
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!).
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies and address change at the bottom of this message) ***
LEXICAL ENTRIES AND RULES OF LANGUAGE:
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF GERMAN INFLECTION
by Harald Clahsen
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please send EMAIL to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
_____________________________________________________________
LEXICAL ENTRIES AND RULES OF LANGUAGE:
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF GERMAN INFLECTION
Harald Clahsen
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Essex
Colchester C04 3SQ
UK
harald(a)essex.ac.uk
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~harald
ABSTRACT: It is hypothesized following much work in linguistic
theory that the language faculty has a modular structure and
consists of two basic components, a lexicon of (structured)
entries and a computational system of combinatorial operations
to form larger linguistic expressions from lexical entries.
This target article provides evidence for the dual nature of
the language faculty by describing some recent results from a
multidisciplinary investigation of German inflection. We have
examined (i) its linguistic representation focussing on noun
plurals and verb inflection (participles), (ii) processes
involved in the way adults produce and comprehend inflected
words, (iii) brain potentials generated during the processing
of inflected words and (iv) the way children acquire and use
inflection. It will be shown that the evidence from all these
sources converges and supports the distinction between lexical
entries and combinatorial operations.
Our experimental results indicate that adults have access to
two distinct processing routes, one accessing (irregularly)
inflected entries from the mental lexicon, and another
involving morphological decomposition of (regularly) inflected
words into stem+affix representations. These two processing
routes correspond to the dual structure of the linguistic
system. Results from event-related potentials confirm this
linguistic distinction at the level of brain structures. In
children's language, we found these two processes also to be
clearly dissociated; regular and irregular inflection are used
under different circumstances, and the constraints under which
children apply them are identical to those of the adult
linguistic system.
Our findings will be explained in terms of a linguistic model,
which maintains the distinction between the lexicon and the
computational system, but replaces the traditional view of the
lexicon as a simple list of idiosyncrasies with the notion of
internally structured lexical representations.
KEYWORDS: grammar, psycholinguistics, neuroscience of language, child
language acquisition, human language processing, development of
inflection
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> Feladó: Chris Maloney <maloney(a)U.Arizona.EDU>
> CÃmzett: phil -- allen buchanan <allen(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; David Chalmers <chalmers(a)paradox.ucsc.edu>; dwo(a)U.Arizona.EDU; alvin goldman <goldman(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; harnish <harnish(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; Mike Harnish <Harnish.ANGOL.BTK.JPTE(a)btk.jpte.hu>; richard healey <rhealey(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; jenann ismael <jtismael(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; juliaannas <jannas(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; maloney(a)U.Arizona.EDU; pollock(a)U.Arizona.EDU; marga reimer <reimer(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; DavidSchmidtz <schmidtz(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; shaughan(a)ns.arizona.edu; smit(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Thomas D Christiano <thomasc(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; tolliver(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; philgrad -- Angela J Burnette <aburnett(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; Anthony S Gillies <agillies(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; akolers(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; ashley <ashleym(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; BarryMacleod-Cullinane <barry(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; bayne(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Brad JThompson <bradt(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; cgriffin(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; cowley(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; cschultz(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; def(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; William J Denvil <denvil(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; drussell(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Erik J Larson <erikl(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; holderc(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; Jennifer B Ryan <jbr(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; jlyons(a)U.Arizona.EDU; khessler(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; labarge(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; anthony lane <atlane(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; lebar(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Matt Zwolinski <mattz(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; mew(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Cara S Nine <ninec(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; park(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; Rachael J Parkinson <rachaelp(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; rsmith(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; patrick rysiew <patrickr(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; sch(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; seok(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; slabey(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; sscalet(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; stahlkop(a)aruba.U.Arizona.EDU; Paul D Thorn <THORN(a)prodigy.net>; truncell(a)U.Arizona.EDU; Todd M Stewart <tstewart(a)U.Arizona.EDU>; William A Oberdick <wao(a)U.Arizona.EDU>
> Tárgy: Online conference: Investigation of Conscious Emotion (fwd)
> Dátum: 1999. január 21. 21:22
>
>
>
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> Chris
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> maloney(a)U.Arizona.EDU
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:34:36 -0700
> From: "James M Laukes (by way of \"John J.B. Allen\"
> <jallen(a)u.arizona.edu>)" <jlaukes(a)U.Arizona.EDU>
> To: PSYCOLLOQ(a)LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: Online conference: Investigation of Conscious Emotion
>
> Please post or distribute as appropriate.
>
>
> The Investigation of Conscious Emotion:
> Combining First Person and Third Person Methodologies
>
> February 22-March 5, 1999
> An On-Line Conference
>
> Sponsored By
> Consciousness Studies
> at The University of Arizona
> and the Journal of Consciousness Studies
>
> Open House and registration begins on February 1, 1999 at:
> http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/emotion.html
> There is no cost to register. Access to the conference will require a
> password which will be provided after registration.
>
> Conference Leaders:
> * Lis Nielsen, Psychology, University of Arizona
> * Al Kaszniak, Psychology, Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Arizona
>
> With Invited Commentaries By:
> * Bernard Baars, Psychology, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California
> * David Chalmers, Philosophy, University of Arizona
> * James Coan, Psychology, University of Arizona
> * Jonathan Cole, Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Southampton
> * Craig DeLancey, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Indiana University
> * Natalie Depraz, Philosophy, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
> * David Galin, University of California, San Francisco
> * Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Canisius College
> * Marja Germans, Psychology, Vanderbilt University
> * Leslie Greenberg, Psychology, York University, Ontario
> * Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Philosophy, Virginia Tech
> * Richard Lane, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Arizona
> * Bruce Mangan, Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley
> * Jaak Panksepp, Psychology, Bowling Green State University
> * Michael Robinson, Psychology, University of Illinois
> * Marilyn Schlitz, Director of Research, Institute of Noetic Sciences
> * Jonathan Shear, Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University
> * Heather Urry, Psychology, University of Arizona
> * Francisco Varela, Cognitive Neuroscience, Paris, France
> * Max Velmans, Psychology, University of London
> * Pierre Vermersch, CNRS, GREX, Saint-Elbe, France
> * Doug Watt, Director of Neuropsychology, Quincy Hospital, Quincy, MA
>
> Overall Focus of the Conference:
> The field of emotion research examines a class of mental phenomena for
> which a main component is the conscious experience of emotion. Due to
> difficulties inherent in rendering first person subjective experience
> measures amenable to scientific interpretation, our current
> understanding of the experiential component of emotion remains limited.
>
> Open-ended verbal response format procedures have had the advantage
> of allowing description of an emotional experience with whatever words
> seem to best capture it. However, the resulting narratives can be
> difficult to adequately categorize and quantify. Fixed response format
> approaches are more easily quantified, but rest on a priori
> assumptions about what comprises the domain of emotional experience.
>
> When these subjective measures are linked to third person behavioral and
> physiological measures interesting correlations have been found.
> But what do these correlations tell us? Do they suggest a functional role
> for the conscious experience of emotion? Does the subjective experience of
> emotion play an important role in the development of a sense of self,
> in social communication, in emotional regulation, or in other forms
> of complex cognitive processing? Or is the experiential component
> of emotion a mere epiphenomenon?
>
> As investigators of emotion begin to tackle questions at the interface of
> emotion, neuroscience, and consciousness studies, new methodologies may be
> required. This on-line workshop will focus on methodological issues facing
> emotion researchers in particular, and investigators of consciousness in
> general, who are interested in understanding role of experience in our
> mental life.
>
>
>
> Conference Outline
> Week One, February 22-26
>
> Methodological Proposals in Consciousness Studies
> (February 22-23)
> Researchers in a variety of disciplines have outlined broad methodological
> strategies for approaching the scientific study of consciousness. Common
> among a number of these is a concern to take subjective reports
> seriously as a valid source of information about consciousness.
>
> First Person Methods in Emotion Research
> (February 23-25)
> Emotion is a complex psychological construct that evades simple definition.
> However, many researchers will agree that emotions involve several
> components, including physiological arousal, overt or expressive behavior,
> cognitive appraisal, and subjective experience. Current research programs
> incorporate measures of experience in a variety of ways:
> Considered as true "measures of experience," how do the various approaches
> "measure up"? What are the particular strengths and weaknesses of the
> various approaches? What are the built-in assumptions of each?
>
> Arguments against Introspection
> (February 25-26)
> How fatal are the arguments against introspectionism to any attempts to
> integrate phenomenal data in empirical research on consciousness?
>
>
> Week Two: March 1-5
>
> Re-thinking Our Approach to Experiential Phenomena
> (March 1-3)
> Perhaps acceptance of phenomenological data as a valid component to
> experimental studies in its own right will not come from arguments about
> the validity of introspective data. Instead, such acceptance might
> come through the consistent demonstration that emotional experience
> has an important functional role (e.g., in cognitive activity, in
> social behavior, in mediating physiological responses to emotional events).
> Such an approach will require that we continue to evaluate our measures of
> experience and get better at understanding the dimensions along which
> experiences can vary and the types of laboratory situations that
> are conducive to the elicitation of emotional experiences.
>
> New Methodologies: Evoking Experience and Measuring Experience
> (March 3-5)
> Participants discuss current and future approaches.
>
>
> System Requirements:
> In preparation for the conference, please be sure that you have a reasonably
> current web browser. Your web browser's version number should be
> available under its Help..About.. menus. We strongly recommend a minimum of
> either Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Communicator 4. You must have at least
> Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Communicator 3.0.
> If your browser is an earlier version, please visit
> http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/contSysReq.html. We have
> posted the system requirements for each browser version and links to places
> within Microsoft and Netscape where you can download a newer browser.
>
Utanloves a dada-hoz.
Osszehasonlitaskeppen, ezeket elo emberek irtak.
Felhivom a figyelmet arra a mondatra, ami azt hangsulyozza, milyen sokaig
gyakoroltak.
udv kgy
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We are pleased to announce winners of the fourth Bad Writing Contest,
sponsored by the scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature.
The Bad Writing Contest celebrates the most stylistically lamentable
passages found in scholarly books and articles published in
the last few years. Ordinary journalism, fiction, departmental memos, etc.
are not eligible, nor are parodies: entries must be
non-ironic, from serious, published academic journals or books. Deliberate
parody cannot be allowed in a field where unintended
self-parody is so widespread.
Two of the most popular and influential literary scholars in the U.S. are
among those who wrote winning entries in the latest
contest.
Judith Butler, a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning professor of rhetoric and
comparative literature at the University of California at
Berkeley, admired as perhaps "one of the ten smartest people on the planet,"
wrote the sentence that captured the contest's first
prize. Homi K. Bhabha, a leading voice in the fashionable academic field of
postcolonial studies, produced the second-prize
winner.
"As usual," commented Denis Dutton, editor of Philosophy and Literature,
"this year's winners were produced by well-known,
highly-paid experts who have no doubt labored for years to write like this.
That these scholars must know what they are doing is
indicated by the fact that the winning entries were all published by
distinguished presses and academic journals."
Professor Butler's first-prize sentence appears in "Further Reflections on
the Conversations of Our Time," an article in the
scholarly journal Diacritics (1997):
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is
understood to structure social relations in
relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which
power relations are subject to repetition,
convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of
temporality into the thinking of structure, and
marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes
structural totalities as theoretical objects to
one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of
structure inaugurate a renewed conception of
hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies
of the rearticulation of power.
Dutton remarked that "it?s possibly the anxiety-inducing obscurity of such
writing that has led Professor Warren Hedges of
Southern Oregon University to praise Judith Butler as ?probably one of the
ten smartest people on the planet?."
This year?s second prize went to a sentence written by Homi K. Bhabha, a
professor of English at the University of Chicago. It
appears in The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994):
If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses
of discipline soon the repetition of guilt,
justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition,
spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen
as the desperate effort to "normalize" formally the
disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the
rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
This prize-winning entry was nominated by John D. Peters of the University
of Iowa, who describes it as "quite splendid:
enunciatory modality, indeed!"
Ed Lilley, an art historian at the University of Bristol in the U.K.,
supplied a sentence by Steven Z. Levine from an anthology
entitled Twelve Views of Manet?s "Bar" (Princeton University Press, 1996):
As my story is an august tale of fathers and sons, real and
imagined, the biography here will fitfully attend
to the putative traces in Manet?s work of "les noms du p�re,"
a Lacanian romance of the errant paternal
phallus ("Les Non-dupes errent"), a revised Freudian novella
of the inferential dynamic of paternity which
annihilates (and hence enculturates) through the deferred
introduction of the third term of insemination the
phenomenologically irreducible dyad of the mother and child.
Stewart Unwin of the National Library of Australia passed along this gem
from the Australasian Journal of American Studies
(December 1997). The author is Timothy W. Luke, and the article is entitled,
"Museum Pieces: Politics and Knowledge at the
American Museum of Natural History":
Natural history museums, like the American Museum, constitute
one decisive means for power to
de-privatize and re-publicize, if only ever so slightly, the
realms of death by putting dead remains into
public service as social tokens of collective life, rereading
dead fossils as chronicles of life's everlasting
quest for survival, and canonizing now dead individuals as
nomological emblems of still living collectives in
Nature and History. An anatomo-politics of human and non-human
bodies is sustained by accumulating and
classifying such necroliths in the museum's
observational/expositional performances.
The passage goes on to explain that museum fossils and artifacts are
"strange superconductive conduits, carrying the vital elan
of contemporary biopower." It?s demonstrated with helpful quotations from
Michel Foucault?s History of Sexuality.
Finally, a tour de force from a 1996 book published by the State University
of New York Press. It was located by M.J. Devaney,
an editor at the University of Nebraska Press. The author is D.G. Leahy,
writing in Foundation: Matter the Body Itself.
Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the
exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which
it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while
the equivocal predication of the outside of the
absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so
predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of
the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute
identity of the outside, which is to say that the
equivocal predication of identity is possible of the
self-identity which is not identity, while identity is
univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the
limit of the reality of the self). This is the real
exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the
absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally
predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the
darkness: the shining of the light univocally
predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally
predicated of the other of self-identity:
existence univocally predicated of the absolutely
unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the
shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity
of the light. The precision of the absolutely
minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the
absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence
for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of
existence/the proportion of the new creation sans
depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally
identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself
equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in
"self-alienation," not "self-identity, itself in self-alienation"
"released" in and by "otherness," and "actual other,"
"itself," not the abysmal inversion of the light, the
reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity
equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally
predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the
other-self-covering of identity which is the
identification person-self).
Dr. Devaney calls this book "absolutely, unequivocally incomprehensible."
While she has supplied further extended quotations to
prove her point, this seems to be enough.
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:57:07 +0000
From: Stephen Clark <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: Roderick Chisholm deceased at 82 (fwd)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:35:45 -0500
From: "Philosophy News Service List Mgr. [richard jones]"
<richard(a)PhilosophyNews.com>
Roderick Chisholm, an influential philosopher, dies at age 82
The Associated Press
01/21/99 11:07 PM Eastern
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Roderick M. Chisholm, an influential figure in
contemporary philosophy, has died at age 82.
Chisholm died Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital, according to the
philosophy department at Brown University, where Chisholm taught for
four decades.
Chisholm was a leading thinker in the branch of philosophy known as
epistemology, or theory of knowledge.
His seminal book of 1957, titled "Perceiving: A Philosophical Study,"
tackled a metaphysical issue that has been debated by philosophers for
centuries -- whether you can trust your senses to give you reliable
knowledge of the outside world.
A realist, Chisholm concluded that you can. Arguments that he used in
his writings dealt a blow to the rival philosophical camp known as
phenomenalism.
A significant nod to Chisholm's importance came in 1991, when he was
selected to be the subject of a volume in the "Library of Living
Philosophers," a collection that examines the views of the world's great
thinkers.
In that series, Chisholm's thoughts joined those of 24 other 20th
century intellectual giants, including Bertrand Russell, John Paul
Sartre, and Albert Einstein.
Fellow philosophers remember Chisholm as a professor not just with a
rigorous mind, but also with a talent for bringing philosophy to life in
a classroom.
He used a sort of Socratic method to instruct his students. He'd propose
a solution to some metaphysical conundrum, invite his students to attack
the solution, and then attack their objections.
"It was very impressive," said James Van Cleve, former chairman of
Brown's philosophy department.
"There was a great deal of clarity and intellectual honesty. Every now
and then, someone would stump him. Then he would revise his own theory,
usually on the spot," said Van Cleve.
Chisholm had an avid following. His presence at Brown drew budding
philosophers from around the world.
Intellectuals who already were teachers themselves would attend his
seminars, including Ernest Sosa, who came to Brown as a young academic
and is now editor of "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" a
philosophical journal published at the university.
"He was really by far the one I learned the most from," Sosa said.
Chisholm's books and articles in philosophical journals had a great deal
of influence on contemporary philosophy, Sosa said.
Among Chisholm's many publications are "Realism and the Background of
Phenomenology, and "The Princeton Studies: Humanistic Scholarship in
America."
Chisholm had lived in Barrington, R.I., since 1947. He was born in
Attleboro, Mass., half an hour away.
He graduated from Brown University in 1938. He received his master's
degree and doctorate at Harvard University in 1942.
A World War II Army veteran, Chisholm taught at Brown from 1947 to 1987.
He also had been a visiting professor at Harvard; the University of
California, Santa Barbara; Princeton; the University of Alberta in
Calgary, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois in
Urbana, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Salzburg in
Austria, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, a grandchild and a
great-grandchild.
Copyright 1998 Associated Press.