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by George Kampis

IVC - HPS Department Cooperation The Institute Vienna Circle (Vienna, Austria) and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Eotvos University, Budapest. Hungary) announces a joint project in the framework of an Austrian-Hungarian Joint Action Foundation grant. The project concentrates on ideas and problems of philosophy of science that range from those of the Vienna Circle to contemporary materialism, including topics on Mach, Lakatos, Gdel, von Neumann, and others. The original text of the project proposal is available in German at http://hps.elte.hu/ivc. Coordinators: George Kampis (Budapest) and Fritz Stadler (Vienna). The project is based on a series of lectures and accompanying discussions. Lectures will be delivered alternatively in Vienna and Budapest. As a ~tangible~ output we envision to publish an edited volume of refereed papers that brings the written versions of some of these lectures. Program of presentations in 1996, with dates and speakers (titles of coming lectures will be announced later): Budapest April 18. Karl Svozil: Undecidabilty Everywhere? Vienna June 4. George Kampis: Probleme des Reduktionismus im Kontext von monistischen und dualistischen Theorien Budapest Sept. 5. Eckehardt Koehler, Ladislav Kvasz Vienna Oct. 10. Miklos Redei, Laszlo Szabo Budapest Nov. 11. Michael Stoeltzner, Thomas Breuer Vienna Dec. 2. Peter Szegedi, Laszlo Ropolyi Lectures (with the exception of one lecture already held) are in English. Place of the lectures: in Budapest 1088 Rakoczi u. 5., room # 105. in Vienna Boltzmanngasse 5. All interested are welcome.

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Neural Constructivism Manifesto: BBS Call for Commentators

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: A CONSTRUCTIVIST MANIFESTO by Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski 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)soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/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 by anonymous ftp (or gopher or world-wide-web) according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: A CONSTRUCTIVIST MANIFESTO Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, and The Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 steve(a)salk.edu Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037. terry(a)salk.edu KEYWORDS: neural development; cognitive development; constructivism; selectionism; mathematical learning theory; evolution; learnability. ABSTRACT: How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to "neural constructivism," the representational features of cortex are built from the dynamic interaction between neural growth mechanisms and environmentally derived neural activity. Contrary to popular selectionist models that emphasize regressive mechanisms, the neurobiological evidence suggests that this growth is a progressive increase in the representational properties of cortex. The interaction between the environment and neural growth results in a flexible type of learning: "constructive learning" minimizes the need for prespecification in accordance with recent neurobiological evidence that the developing cerebral cortex is largely free of domain-specific structure. Instead, the representational properties of cortex are built by the nature of the problem domain confronting it. This uniquely powerful and general learning strategy undermines the central assumption of classical learnability theory, that the learning properties of a system can be deduced from a fixed computational architecture. Neural constructivism suggests that the evolutionary emergence of neocortex in mammals is a progression toward more flexible representational structures, in contrast to the popular view of cortical evolution as an increase in innate, specialized circuits. Human cortical postnatal development is also more extensive and protracted than generally supposed, suggesting that cortex has evolved so as to maximize the capacity of environmental structure to shape its structure and function through constructive learning. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.quartz). 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.quartz ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.quartz gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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.quartz When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet that will do the transfer for you. To one or the other of them, send the following one line message: help for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or bitftp will then execute for you). -------------------------------------------------------------

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dokszimp

by bfarkas

Kedves Mindenki, tanarok, doktorandusok, hallgatok! Mellekelten kuldom a junius 7-i nyelvesz doktorandus-szipozium programjat. Egy par reszlet: --- akinek szallasra van szuksege, kerjuk, jelezze minel elobb! --- aki utikoltseg-teritest igenyel, regisztraciokor kerjuk, adja le a vonatjegyet, hogy kellokeppen adminisztralni tudjuk... --- az ELTE hazinyomdaja penteken fel 12-ig tart nyitva. Akinek fenymasolatra van szuksege, kerjuk, szoljon minel hamarabb. --- a helyszin: Ajtosi Durer sor 19-21. * A Keleti PU-tol a 7-es busszal kell menni a Stefania utig, a Stefania uton elgyalogolni az ADS sarkaig, onnan a kozpont fele... * A Deli PU-tol: piros metroval a Keleti PU-ig, onnan \ mint fent. * A Nyugati PU-tol a 72-es trolival az ADS-ig. (A Podmaniczky utcaban kell felszallni.) Dokszimp Budapest, 1996. junius 7. pentek PROGRAM Helyszin: az ELTE Ajtosi Durer sori epulete (ADS 19-21), 036-os terem. 8 oratol: beiratkozas (regisztracio) a Durer kavehazban. 9--9:15 Megnyito: Kiefer Ferenc akademikus. 9:15--9:45 Szigetvari Peter (ELTE ENY/ATSZ): Affrikatak. 9:45--10:15 Cser Andras (ELTE ENY/ATSZ): A latin szotag szerkezete. 10:15--10:45 Rebrus Peter (ELTE ENY): Mi a default maganhangzo a magyarban? --- 15 perc kaveszunet --- 11--11:30 Dudas Kalman (ELTE ENY): Latin imperszonalis szerkezetek argumentumai. 11:30--12 Bujdoso Istvan (JPTE NTSZ): A tagadas szelleme. 12--12:30 Olsvay Csaba (ELTE ENY): Negativ kvantorok a magyarban. 12:30--13 Kiss Katalin (JATE ENY): Igekomplexitas es mondatprodukcio afaziasoknal. --- Ebedszunet --- 14:30--15 Radai Gabor (ELTE SzLog): Szamitogepes szemantika. 15--15:30 Varasdi Karoly (ELTE ENY): Logikai konstansok es algebra a dinamikus logikaban. 15:30--16 Tron Viktor (ELTE ENY): Szintaktikailag kodolt ido-dependenciak. --- 15 perc kaveszunet --- 16--16:30 Kiss Szabolcs (ELTE, Altalanos Pszichologia): Implicit pszichologia a nyelvben. 16:30--17 Szecsenyi Tibor (JATE ANY): A vonzatok vonzatai. 17--17:30 Csirmaz Aniko (ELTE ANY): A szuaheli birtokos szerkezet 17:30--18 Bartos Huba (ELTE ENY/ATSZ): Az alanyi es a targyas ragozasrol. 19 ora: allofogadas a Thokoly etteremben (Thokoly ut 80, a Stefania ut sarkan). Megjegyzes: a helyszinen hozzaferheto lesz a resztvevok listaja es az eloadasok kivonatait tartalmazo fuzet.

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Addressed to dr. Szent-Imrey Tamas, help

by Gabor Ujvari

Tisztelt KOGLIST olvasok! Az alabbi levelet kaptam nehany napja, de sajnos nem tudtam segiteni. Kerem, ha valaki tudja mirol van szo, valaszoljon. Ujvari Gabor ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:56:00 +0200 From: Muresan Lucian <lucas(a)soroscj.ro> To: webmaster(a)CogPsyPhy.hu Subject: Addressed to dr. Szent-Imrey Tamas, help Hello ! My name is Muresan Lucian and I'm the friend of on ex-student of yours in Cluj, Balogh Piroska (the blonde one who was allways laughing). She is asking you this way for a big favour ! She worked all year long on her graduating work being sure that her teacher have the computer program for the CPI-s test (300 items). But the theacher offered her, a few days ago, a similar program which work on 480 items (I think). Hoping that you still have the program (you brought it last year), she asking you to send it as an attachement to an e-mail on my address, as the fastest possible way. She is desperate! (I swear.) If you don't have the program, please send me the scales significant items and anything you think it would help for the quotation (is the appropriate word) -- Gabor Ujvari | Institute for Psychology, Budapest, HUNGARY ujvari(a)cogpsyphy.hu | Tel.: (36) 1 153-3244 Fax: (36) 1 269-2972

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Herbert Hrachovec eloadasa

by George Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, Herbert Hrachovecz eloadasat eredetileg a szombati minikonferencian tartotta volna, de ehelyett a szokott idoben, csutortokon 16:00-kor fogja. Mindenkit szeretettel varunk. Idopont: majus 30 csutortok Hely: Rakoczi ut 5, I. em 105. udv kgy Eloadaskivonat: H. Hrachovec Risking Truth. A Conversation Abstract The perennial debate concerning "Truth" is far from settled. Recently it has been revived as post-modern relativism hits the last strong-holds of Analytical Philosophy. Take the O.J.Simpson trial: Is there a truth of the matter or does it all come down to professional (miss-)use of the relevant media, as pragmatism seems to imply? Rather than tackle this question head-on a conversation is constructed. Its interlocutors hold and defend positions resembling those of Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Saul Kripke and Herbert Hrachovec.

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tudfil minikonferencia

by George Kampis

Minikonferencia A "Tudoma'nyfilozo'fiai Tea'zo'" sorozat kerete'ben minikonferencia't szervez az ELTE TTK Tudoma'nyto:rte'net e's Tudoma'nyfilozo'fia Tansze'ke. Ido"pontja: 1996. ju'nius 1. szombat Helye: az ELTE Tana'ri Klubja, Bp., V. Szerb u. 23. Kezdete: 10:00 Elo"ado'k: N. Belnap (Pittsburgh) Belnap+(a)pitt.edu J. Uffink (Utrecht) Uffink(a)fys.ruu.nl Felke'rt hozza'szo'la'st tart Re'dei Miklo's (TT tansze'k) e's Szabo' La'szlo' (Elme'leti Fizika Tansze'k). Az elo"ada'sok uta'n szere'ny hidegbu:fe'. Az elo"ada'sok kivonatait ko:zze'tesszu:k a MAFLA filozo'fiai leveleze'si lista'n, tova'bba' a http://hps.elte.hu/tea oldalakon. Minden e'rdeklo"do"t szeretettel va'runk. Budapest, 1996. a'prilis 20. Kampis Gyo:rgy

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Re: fellowship

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

> Date: Thu, 23 May 96 11:26:01 BST > To: Stevan Harnad (harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk > From: brunon(a)utsax7.univ.trieste.it (nicola bruno) > > Dear Stevan: > > The University of Trieste is offering six fellowships in support of > research projects to be carried out in Trieste by Eastern European > researchers. If you know of a Hungarian post graduate who would be > interested in applying to carry out a project here, I would like to help > putting in a request. The project would involve coordinating human > psychophysical performance (with me) with neural models implemented in a > mobile robot (with Dario Floreano, who speaks Hungarian). I thought this > may be attractive, given the Julesz tradition in psychophysics, and the > relatively short distance Trieste - Hungary. Offered fellowships are 25 > million lire. Renting a flat should cost somewhere between 500.000 and > 1.000.000 a month, and living expenses should be about 500.000 a month. So > the money is reasonable. We are very eager to have collaborators here that > can help us develop our projects. Whether we would get one of the > fellowship depends on several factors, but we are certainly willing to put > in the work to submit a strong application. Please let me know. > > Nicola Bruno, Research Scientist > Dipartimento di Psicologia > Universita' di Trieste email: nicola.bruno(a)univ.trieste.it > via Universita', 7 tel: +39 40 6767355 > Trieste 34123 ITALY fax: +39 40 312272 Hi Nick, Yes, I think there is a lot of ready talent in Hungary. I will branch this to Professor Csaba Pleh at the Scientific University and Professor George Karmos at the Academy of Sciences for their recommendations of suitable candidates. Best wishes, Stevan -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad(a)soton.ac.uk Professor of Psychology harnad(a)princeton.edu Director, phone: +44 1703 592582 Cognitive Sciences Centre fax: +44 1703 594597 Department of Psychology http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/

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Csibra Gergely kurzusanak parameterei

by PLEH＠IZABELL.elte.hu

Csibra Gergely korabban meghirdetett fewjklodeslelektaniu kurzusanak pontosabb parameterei Szoval koezben kialakultak a konkret idopontok es helyek is: maj. 24. pentek 15.00 Izu 316 (Pleh Csaba szobaja) maj. 28-31. minden nap 15.00 Izu 403 A kurzus az 1996. oszi felevben lesz meghirdetve, PS-KK09.01 (tehat kognitiv szakiranyos) kodszammal, Categorization and Concept Formation in Infancy cimmel. A kurzushoz olvasokoenyv is keszuel - 700Ft-ba fog keruelni es nalam (315. szoba) lehet feliratkozni. A fenymasologep "lelki allapotatol" fueggoen remelhetoleg a joevo het folyaman meg is lesznek a readerek. Mindenkit szeretettel varunk, Czachesz Gyoengyi

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Re: meghivo ruzsa-kollokviumra

by George Kampis

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Csibra Gergely kurzusa

by PLEH＠IZABELL.elte.hu

Kedves Kollegak, mint ismeretes majus vegen (hely pontositas folayamatban) Csibra Gergely rovid kurzust tart. Kerem, akik jarni fognak, s kell nekik gyujtemeny, jellezek kurgyis(a)izabell.elte.hu cimen. A rendes diakjainknak uzeenem, hogy ez kfredites kurzus a 96 OSZI felevre. Udv Pleh Csaba Categorization and concept formation in infancy 1. Representation, category formation, and development Mandler, J.M. (in press). Representation. In: D. Kuhn & R Siegler (Eds.), Cognition, Perception, Language, Vol. 2. of W. Damon (Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology. 2. Perceptual categorization Bornstein, M.H. (1981). Psychological studies of color perception in human infants: Habituation, discrimination and categorization, recognition, and conceptualization. In: L.P. Lipsitt & C.K. Rovee-Collier (Eds.), Advances in Infancy Research, Vol. 1, pp. 1-40. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Quinn, P.c., & Eimas, P.D. (1996). Perceptual organization and categorization in young infants. In: C.K. Rovee-Collier & L.P. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in Infancy Research, Vol. 11, pp. 1-36. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 3. Levels of categories Mandler, J.M., & Bauer, J.M. (1988). The cradle of categorization: Is the basic level basic? Cognitive Development, 3, 247-264. Roberts, K., & Cuff, M.D. (1989). Categorization studies of 9- to 15-month-old infants: Evidence for superordinate categorization? Infant Behavior and Development, 12, 265- 288. Bauer, P.J., Dow, G.A., & Hertsgard, L.A. (1995). Effects of prototypicality on categorization in 1- to 2-year-olds: Getting down to basic. Cognitive Development, 10, 43-68. 4. Categorization and word learning Markman, E.M. (1989). Categorization and Naming in Children. Problems of Induction. Cambridge: MIT Press. Chapter 2, Acquisition of category terms. pp. 19-38. Roberts, K. (1995). Categorical responding in 15-month-olds: Influence of the noun-category bias and the covariation between visual fixation and auditory input. Cognitive Development, 10, 21-41. Waxman, S.R., & Markov, D.B. (1995). Words as invitations to form categories: Evidence from 12- to 13-month-old infants. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 257-302.

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