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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:45:37 +0000
From: notturno(a)magnet.at
To: George Kampis <gk(a)hps.elte.hu>
Subject: Open Society, Friendship, and Trust
Open Society, Friendship, and Trust II
Funded by the Higher Education Support Program
of The Open Society Institute
Is open society an ideal that we cannot achieve, or a reality
from which we cannot escape? What are the `reactionary'
attempts to return to tribalism reacting against? Is tribalism
necessarily bad? Is friendship impossible in an open society,
or something that is protected by it? How do institutions differ
from collectives? Is rule of law really a better alternative than
friendship? Does freedom depend upon good institutions, or
upon the individuals that man them? Is democracy enough to
make a society open? Is free market a necessary component?
Does trust facilitate open society, or is it an impediment to it?
Should we make friendship and trust our political ideals? How
do open society and civil society differ? What are open and
closed societies open and closed to?
A workshop on `Open Society, Friendship, and Trust' will be held from 17-22
February at the Central European University in Budapest. This workshop will
consist of a series of round-table discussions devoted to questions raised by Karl
Popper's book The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Philosophers and scientists with interests in these areas are encouraged to
apply.
`Open Society, Friendship, and Trust II' will be directed by Dr. Mark Notturno
and Dr. Kira Viktorova. Travel to and accommodations in Budapest, plus a
book allowance and a workshop participant's grant, are available for
participants from Central and Eastern Europe.
Those interested in participating should send a cover letter and curriculum vitae
to Mark Notturno in (email: <notturno(a)magnet.at>. Tel: 43-1-315-7422.
Fax: 43 - 1 - 315-7423) and a copy to Riccardo Chelleri in Budapest (email:
<chellerir(a)yahoo.com>. Tel: 36-1-327-3000, ext. 3189. Fax:
36-1-327-3091.) Applications must be received no later than 10 January 1999.
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:58:14 MET
From: "R. van Baaren" <R.vanBaaren(a)kub.nl>
To: espp(a)mailnews.kub.nl
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EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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The Euro-SPP is calling for papers and posters to be presented at its
Eighth Annual Meeting in Warwick, Great-Britain, July 23-27, 1999.
The aim of the Society is "to promote interaction between philosophers
and psychologists on issues of common concern". Psychologists,
neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and biologists are
encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and clinical work that
they judge to have philosophical significance. In recent years ESPP
sessions have covered such topics as spatial concepts, simulation
theory, attention, problems of consciousness, emotion, perception,
early numerical cognition, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals,
reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action, thought without language,
externalism, connectionism, and the interpretation of neuropsychological
results.
Submitted papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and
relevance to both psychologists and philosophers. Papers should not
exceed a length of 20 minutes (about 8 double-spaced pages). Papers
must be accompanied by a camera-ready 300-word abstract (to be
included in the conference booklet). There will also be poster
presentations. A submission for a poster presentation should consist
of a 500-word abstract. Submitted papers may also be considered for
presentation as posters. The deadline for submission is March 1st,
1999.
Electronic submissions are preferred and should be sent to both
Elisabeth Pacherie and Beate Sodian:
<pacherie(a)poly.polytechnique.fr, sodian(a)psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de>
If you cannot send your submission through email, please send three copies to:
Dr. Elisabeth Pacherie or Dr. Beate Sodian
CREA Department of Psychology
Ecole Polytechnique Universitaet Wuerzburg
1, rue Descartes Roentgenring 10
75005 Paris - France D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany
Local arrangements are being handled by Dr. Naomi Eilan. She can be
contacted by e-mail at pysau(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk
For information on membership of the European Society for Philosophy
and Psychology, contact Susan Struycken at S.Struycken(a)kub.nl
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COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Call for Papers and Proposals
We are pleased to announce the twenty-first annual meeting
of the Cognitive Science Society on August 19-21, 1999.
The conference site is Vancouver, British Columbia,
on the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University.
Our goal in organizing this conference is to reflect the full
spectrum of the many research areas in Cognitive Science.
We welcome all submissions, and trust that multiple
research themes will emerge naturally. We are especially
interested in submissions in areas that have been under
represented at recent conferences. There are six
categories for submissions:
Spoken Papers: 20-minute spoken presentations;
reviewed and published as six-page papers in the
Proceedings. Submission length: up to 2000 words.
Symposia: Two-hour spoken presentations, including
three or more well-integrated talks on a common topic;
reviewed and published as one-page abstracts in the
Proceedings. Submission length: up to 1000 words.
Posters: Standard poster presentations; reviewed and
published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings.
Submission length: up to 2000 words.
Abstract Posters: Poster presentations by full
members of the Society only; not reviewed or
published in the proceedings. Submission length:
up to 500 words. Society members can submit
abstracts for posters through March 6, 1999.
Tutorials: Sessions devoted to technical tutorials
may be offered. Possible topics include hidden Markov
models, ACT model, cognitive task analysis, & fMRI.
For more information, see
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/
cogsci99/proposals.html
Workshops: Sessions devoted to education in Cognitive
Science may also be offered. Proposals for "how-to"
sessions on undergraduate and graduate programs of
study are requested. For more information, see
http://depts.vassar.edu/~cogsci/Workshops.html
Review Process: Submissions for spoken papers,
standard posters, and symposia will be reviewed by
these criteria: Technical/Theoretical Merit; Relevance
to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers;
Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality.
*****All submissions will be refereed electronically.
We require camera-ready paper copies only once
accepted for publication. Information on electronic
submission formats can be found at our conference
website: http://www.sfu.ca/cogsci99/
Conference Chair: Prof. Martin Hahn
Email: cogsci99(a)sfu.ca
Postal Mail: CogSci99, c/o Philosophy Dept.,
Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, B.C., V5A 1S6
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by
FEBRUARY 6, 1999, for consideration.
For Cognitive Science Society membership information,
please see http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci/
Or, contact the society office c/o Prof. Colleen
Seifert, Univ. of Michigan, 525 East University, Ann
Arbor, MI, 48109-1109; phone: (734) 429-9248; fax:
(734) 763-7480; email: cogsci(a)umich.edu
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Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/
Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
Secretary: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/
KONFERENCIA FELHI'VA'S
A Magyar Kogniti'v Tudoma'nyi Alapi'tva'ny most ma'r szoka'sos
e'vi konferenica'ja't
=========================================
" Dinamika e's megismere's
=========================================
ci'mmel rendezzu:k.
A konferencia ideje: 1999 februa'r 1 - 3.
Helye: Visegra'd
A konferencia ce'lja, hogy hangsu'lyozzuk, egyre'szt maga a megismere'si
teve'kenyse'g, ma'sre'szt a megismero" rendszerek kialakula'sa is
ido"beli folyamat. Kisse' ma'ske'nt fogalmazva, azt a ke'rde'st
sza'nde'kozunk ko:rbe ja'rni, hogy a dinamikus rendszerek fogalmi e's
matematikai appara'tusa mit nyu'jthat (e's mit nem) a
megismere'studoma'nynak.
Elso"sorban a megadott nagy te'mako:rt szem elo"tt tarto'
refera'tumokra sza'mi'tunk, de etto"l elte'ro" tematika'ju'
elo"ada'sokat is szi'vesen la'tunk.
Va'runk teha't
- neurobiolo'gusokat (legyenek azok anato'musok, fiziolo'gusok,
viselkede'skutato'k stb, so"t "computational neuroscientist"-ek);
- agyfejlo"de'st tanulma'nyozo' neurolo'gusokat,
- pszicholo'gusokat (pszichofiziolo'gusokat, memo'ria- e's
tanula'skutato'kat, csecsemo"- tova'bba' nyelvpszicholo'gusokat,
fejlo"de'sle'lektanban ja'rtasakat;
- dinamikus modellek terveze'se'vel e's elemze'se'vel foglalkozo'
teoretikusokat,
- mesterse'ges intelligencia kutato'kat e's sza'mi'ta'stechnikusokat;
- filozo'fusokat
- e's minden e'rdeklo"do"t.
Az idei konferencia'n ke't tutorial segi'tse'ge'vel igyekszik
ke't jeles tana'r a te'mako:r matematikai e's eszmeto:rte'neti ha'ttere't
megvila'gi'tani.
1. To'th Ja'nos: A dinamikai rendszerek elme'lete'nek alapfogalmai
2. Kampis Gyo:rgy: Dinamikus modellek eszmeto:rte'nete
Lesz tova'bba' egy Esti Fo"elo"ada's:
La'bos Eleme'r: Fontosabb dinamikai metafora'k az ismeretek
fejlo"de'slogika'ja'hoz
Ma'sodik este felteheto"leg egy (kis) bankett lesz, majd azt ko:veto"en
Kerekasztal vagy Fo'rum vagy valami hasonlo' MEGLEPETE'S
lesz. Tala'n ezzel a ci'mmel:
" Dinamika e's megismere's: de te'nyleg, miro"l van szo'? "
Tala'n valami ma's ko:vetkezik. (O:tleteket szi'vesen veszu:nk.)
Az a ce'lunk, hogy a konferencia inka'bb hasonli'tson egy 54 o'ra's
szervezett intellektua'lis happeninghez, mint egy esetleges e's fu:ggetlen
elo"ada'sokbo'l a'llo' unalmas o:sszejo:vetelhez. Eze'rt is hirdetu:nk
esti programokat.
O:rulne'nk, ha SOK DIA'K is jo:nne, eze'rt ke'rju:k az ido"sebb
kolle'ga'kat, hirdesse'k a konferencia't! U'gy gondoljuk, a
re'szve'teli di'j "felno"teknek" 2600Ft, dia'koknak 1200 Ft lesz.
A re'szve'teli di'je'rt a bankett, az elo"ada'skivonat, reme'lheto"leg
MAKOG triko', e's fu"to:tt elo"ado'terem ja'r. (Nem vicc, az ide'n sokkal
to:bb terembe'rt fizetu:nk mint tavaly.)
A sza'lla's e's e'tkeze's ko"ltse'ge naponta kb. 2000 Ft. Reme'lju:k az
ido"sebb kollega'k segi'tenek a dia'koknak a ko:ltse'gek
elo"teremte'se'ben. U'gy tudjuk, a dia'kok megki'se'relhetnek valamennyi
ta'mogata'st a HO:K-to"l kicsikarni.
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Elo"ada'sokra azok ci'me'vel mostanto'l lehet jelentkezni ege'szen
december 21 (he'tfo") 17.00 o'ra'ig. A felede'kenyebb terme'szetu:ek
esetleg ne va'rjanak az utolso' pillanatig.
Az elo"ada'skivonatokat (3 oldal) janua'r 11 (he'tfo") 17.00 o'ra'ig
ke'rju:k.
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A konferencia hirek honlapja
http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/biofiz/cneuro/makog99.html
(karbantarto'ja Lengyel Ma'te': lmate(a)rmki.kfki.hu)
A konferencia't az MTA KFKI Re'szecske- e's Magfizikai Kutato'inte'zet
Biofizikai Oszta'lya szervezi.
E'rdi Pe'ter
Nemeti Istvan eloadast tart a strukturalizmus, altalanos rendszerelmelet,
kibernetika, ..., kozmologia temakoreben.
Az eloadas december 15-en, kedden delutan 4-kor lesz a
Matematikai Kutato nagytermeben.
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel etc.
udv kgy
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
(see also 4 important announcements about new
BBS policies at the end of this message)
COLOR, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE ISOMORPHISM CONSTRAINT
by Stephen E. Palmer
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COLOR, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE ISOMORPHISM CONSTRAINT
Stephen E. Palmer
Psychology Department
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650
palmer(a)cogsci.berkeley.edu
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~plab
ABSTRACT: The relations among consciousness, brain, behavior,
and scientific explanation are explored within the domain of
color perception. Current scientific knowledge about color
similarity, color composition, dimensional structure, unique
colors, and color categories is used to assess Locke's "inverted
spectrum argument" about the undetectability of color
transformations. A symmetry analysis of color space shows that
the literal interpretation of this argument -- reversing the
experience of a rainbow -- would not work. Three other
color-to-color transformations might, however, depending on the
relevance of certain color categories. The approach is then
generalized to examine behavioral detection of arbitrary
differences in color experiences, leading to the formulation of
a principled distinction, called the isomorphism constraint,
between what can and cannot be determined about the nature of
color experience by objective behavioral means. Finally, the
prospects for achieving a biologically based explanation of
color experience below the level of isomorphism are considered
in light of the limitations of behavioral methods.
Within-subject designs using biological interventions hold the
greatest promise for scientific progress on consciousness, but
objective knowledge of another person's experience appears
impossible. The implications of these arguments for
functionalism are discussed.
In this article I discuss the relations among mind, brain,
behavior, and science in the particular domain of color
perception. My reasons for approaching these difficult issues
from the perspective of color experience are two-fold. First,
there is long philosophical tradition of debating the nature of
internal experiences of color, dating from John Locke's (1690)
discussion of the so-called "inverted spectrum argument". This
intuitively compelling argument constitutes an important
historical backdrop for much of the article. Second, color is
perhaps the most tractable, best understood aspect of mental
life from a scientific standpoint. It demonstrates better than
any other topic how a mental phenomenon can be more fully
understood by integrating knowledge from many different
disciplines (Kay & McDaniel, 1978; Thompson, 1995; Palmer, in
press). In this article I turn once more to color for new
insights into how conscious experience can be studied and
understood scientifically.
I begin with a brief description of the inverted spectrum
problem as posed in classical philosophical terms. I then
discuss how empirical constraints on the answer can be brought
to bear in terms of the structure of human color experience as
it is currently understood scientifically. This discussion
ultimately leads to a principled distinction, called the
isomorphism constraint, between what can and what cannot be
determined about the nature of experience by objective
behavioral means. Finally, I consider the prospects for
achieving a biologically based explanation of color experience,
ending with some speculations about limitations on what science
can achieve with respect to understanding color experience and
other forms of consciousness.
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
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ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.palmer
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
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ftp 128.112.128.1
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Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
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cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
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Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.palmer
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
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FOUR IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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(1) There have been some extremely important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science:
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Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature2.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
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(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
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It is exceedingly simple to do so and will make all of our papers
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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
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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.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
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Nominations of books for BBS Multiple book review are also invited.
A Magyar Wittgenstein Tarsasag es az MTA Filozofiai Intezete Nyelv- es
Tudomanyfilozofiai Kutatocsoportja
1998. dec. 7-en, hetfon 14 orai kezdettel vitat rendez
Neumer Katalin
Gondolkodas, beszed, iras c. konyverol.
Vitaindito: Pleh Csaba es Redl Karoly.
A vita szinhelye: MTA Filozofiai Intezete, 1054 Budapest, Szemere u. 10.,
II. em. konyvtar
Az MFT Filozofiatorteneti Szakosztalya
es az ELTE BTK Szimbolikus Logika Tanszeke
meghivja Ont
Charles Parsons (Harvard University)
Husserl and the Linguistic Turn
c. eloadasara. Helyszin: ELTE BTK Filozofia Tanszekcsoport eloadoterme
Bp. V., Pesti B. u. 1. A felem. 19
Idopont: nov. 20. (pentek), du. 5.
Parsons professzor a kortars amerikai filozofia elvonalahoz tartozik;
fo terulete a matematika filozofiaja, de szamos ide tobbe vagy kevesbe
kapcsolodo filozofiatorteneti teruleten is jelentoset alkotott.
Kulonosen nevezetesek Kanttal kapcsolatos munkai. Ket alkalommal: hetfon
(16.) delben es szerdan du.4-kor orat fog tartani egy
matematikafilozofiai szeminarium kereteben, a Logika tanszeken (fenti
cim, felem. 23.); elso alkalommal a matematikai strukturalizmusrol es a
vele szembeni ellenervekrol lesz szo, masodszor a matemetikai intuiciorol
es a Vernunft szereperol a matematika episztemologiajaban. A hely
meglehetosen szuk es a szeminarium mufaja sem nagyon teszi lehetove
kulso erdeklodok alkalmi csatlakozasat (mi ezekre a temakra mar ket
honapja keszulunk), de egy-ket, a temakban jaratos, esetleg kapcsolodo
teman dolgozo kollega azert bejohet ezekre az orakra is.
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Andras Mate CSc, assoc. prof. -- Dept. of Symbolic Logic
Lorand Eotvos University Budapest, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
H-1364 Budapest, POB 107
Phone: (36 1) 266 9100/5328 -- TAD/Fax: (36 1) 266 41 95
e-mail:mate@isis.elte.hu
Home: H-1119 Budapest, Nandorfehervar koz 11 / Phone: (36 1) 204 0489
Mint mar koztudott nov. 16-an hetfon a Kognitiv pszichologia es
Megismerestudomany alprogramok bemutatkoznak.
A program remenyem szerint a kovetkezo lesz:
13.00 Bekoszono
13.10-13.30
Beran Eszter: A nyelv es a nemek: a diskurzus elemzes modszerenek
alkalmazasa
13.30-13.50
Polonyi Tunde Eva: Conflicts of languages - different processing
strategies of different languages
13.50-14.10
Thuma Orsolya: A nyelvfeldolgozas modularitasanak kiserleti tesztelese
magyar nyelven
14.10-14.30
Polya Tibor: Narrativ perspektiva esa kotodes mentalis reprezentacioja
14.30-14.50
Kiraly Ildiko: Hogyan emlekszunk esemenyekre?
14.50-15.10
Rago Anett: Termeszetes es mesterseges fogalmaink- a szakertoseg jelentese
15.10-15.30
Gy. Stefanik Krisztina: A naiv tudatelmeleti deficitet kompenzalo
mechanizmusok autista szemelyeknel - elozetes megfontolasok
15.30-15.50 Szunet, kave, uditok
15.50-16.10
Juhasz Levente Zsolt: A latas kognitiv neuropszichologiai vizsgalata
16.10-16.30
Aszalos Peter: Elemi osztalykepzesi mechanizmusok modellezese
rekonstrukcios halozatokkal
16.30-16.50
Antal Karoly: Kontraszterzekenyseg merese terbeli alakzatokon
16.50-17.10
Zsigmond Istvan: Metakognitiv strategiak es analogias problemamegoldas
17.10-17.30
Dankovics Natalia: Anaforikus ketertelmuseg es kauzalis semak a
megertesben
17.30-17.50
Horvath Janos Gyorgy: Az audio-vizualis interakcio alapjelensegei az
emberi informacio-feldolgozasban
17.50-18.10
Jelasity Mark: Mennyit es hogyan tanulhatunk az evoluciotol?
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Peter Aszalos
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of Spectroscopy
Tel: (1-) 3959074
email: aszalos(a)alpha0.iki.kfki.hu
