The Popper Project
Spring Workshop
The Popper Project Spring Workshop will be held from 6-14 June in Budapest. Philosophers
from ten different countries will explore problems in understanding, translating, and teaching
Popper's philosophy through:
I. A Translators' Workshop, consisting of five two hour sessions, devoted to
problems related to translation in general and to the translation of Popper's
philosophy in particular. These sessions will be conducted by philosophers such as
Vadim Sadovsky (Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences) and
Ilie Prvu (University of Bucharest) who have produced authorized translations of
Popper's books.
II. A Seminar on Teaching Popper's Philosophy, consisting of five two hour
sessions, devoted to problems related to teaching Popper's philosophy at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Discussion topics will include Popper and
Positivism; Popper's Anti-Justificationism (corroboration vs inductive confirmation);
the relationship between Open Society, Criticism, and Democracy; World 3 and the
Self; and the relationship between Science and Metaphysics.
III. Public Lectures by Friedrich Stadler (Wiener Kreis Institute), David Miller
(University of Warwick), Mark Notturno (CEU Popper Project), Vadim Sadovsky
(Russian Academy of Sciences), and Jiri Fiala (Charles University) devoted to specific
aspects of Popper's philosophy.
IV. A Lecture/Concert by Julien Musafia on Popper's philosophy of music.
The Popper Project Spring workshop is sponsored by the HESP with additional funding from
the Ianus Foundation. Travel to and accomodations in Budapest, plus a $25.00 per
diem, are
available for workshop participants. Candidates who are interested in participating should
contact Mark Notturno (tel/fax: 36 1 275 0980; Email: notturno(a)sirius.ceu.hu).
The Popper Project
Spring Workshop
Tuesday, June 6:
8:00 P.M. Welcoming Party, Astoria Hotel.
Wednesday, June 7:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU Building V, room 104.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
Introduction to the Popper Project.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU Building V, room 104.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Justification, Objectivity, Rationality and World 3'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper's Relationship to the Vienna Circle'.
Thursday, June 8:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper and the Vienna Circle'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Popper's Indeterminism'.
Friday, June 9:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Probability and Verisimilitude'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Education for an Open Society'.
Saturday, June 10:
6:00 P.M. Lecture and recital. Bla Bart"k House.
Julien Musafia, University of California:
`Popper's philosophy of music'.
A reception for the workshop will follow at Dr. Notturno's
home at Kiss Aron 15 in Budapest's XIIth district.
Monday, June 12:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Ilie Parvu, University of Bucharest, Bucharest:
`Epistemology without a Knowing Subject'.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Piecemeal Engineering'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Nonsense: Carnap, Ingarden, Popper, Wittgenstein, and Frege'.
Tuesday, June 13:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. Building IV, room 307.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague;
Peter Szegedi, Etvs Lor nd University, Budapest:
The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. Building IV, room 307.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Popper's Philosophy of Mathematics'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. Building IV, room 307.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Popper in Russia'.
Popper Project Workshop Lecturers
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper's Relationship to the Vienna Circle'.
Friedrich Stadler is the Scientific Head of the Institut `Wiener Kreis'.
He is the author of Studien zum Wiener Kreis. Ursprung, Entwicklung
und Wirkung des Logischen Empirismus im Kontext and the series-
editor of the Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, which provides an
interdisciplinary and international forum for the history and philosophy
of science.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Popper's Indeterminism'.
David Miller teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick,
England. He has worked closely with Karl Popper on the theories of
probability and verisimilitude. He is the author of Critical Rationalism,
and the editor of the popular Popper Selections.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Education for an Open Society'.
Mark Notturno is the director of the CEU's Popper Project. He is the
author of Objectivity, Rationality, and the Third Realm: Justification
and the Grounds of Psychologism, and the editor of Perspectives on
Psychologism. He is also the editor of Karl Popper's last two books,
The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind
Problem. He is currently working on Introduction to Scientific
Methods, which is based on ten years of Sir Karl's lectures on
scientific method at the LSE.
Julien Musafia, California State University
`Popper's Philosophy of Music' at the Bla Bart"k House.
Julien Musafia is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at California State
University, Long Beach. He holds degrees in composition, piano
performance, ethnomusicology and political philosophy. He is the
author of The Art of Fingering in Piano Playing, and he has recorded
solo works for MGM, Columbia Pictures, Orion Master Recordings
and "ebs records GmbH" (Germany).
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Nonsense: Carnap, Ingarden, Popper, Wittgenstein, and Frege'.
Jiri Fiala teaches Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He has
translated Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and
Philosophical Investigations into Czech. And he is currently working
on a translation of Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Popper in Russia'.
Vadim Sadovsky is Chief of the Department for Philosophical and
Sociological Problems of Systems Research at the Institute for Systems
Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the co-author of
Systems Theory: Philosophical and Methodological Problems and the
author of numerous articles in the philosophies of logic and science.
He is also the editor of the first Popper's selection in Russia and the
first Russian edition of The Open Society and Its Enemies.
**** HELYESBITES ****
Az idopont junius 2. pentek, 11 ora
Szeretettel meghivunk minden kedves erdeklodot a becsi egyetemrol
erkezett nyelveszek eloadasaira.
Hely: MTA Nyelvtudomanyi Intezet
1014 Szinhaz u. 5-9 (119 szoba)
Idopont:junius 2., pentek, 11 ora
Eloadok:
Edwin Williams: Ellipisis
Friedrich Neubarth: Polarity: negative
Martin Prinzhorn & Gerhard Brugger: On the internal and external
syntax of definite DPs in German
Martina Wiltschko: Extraposition and Identification
Jacek Witkos: The Genitive of Negation
Szeretettel meghivunk minden kedves erdeklodot a becsi egyetemrol
erkezett nyelveszek eloadasaira.
Hely: MTA Nyelvtudomanyi Intezet
1014 Szinhaz u. 5-9 (119 szoba)
Idopont:junius 11., pentek, 11 ora
Eloadok:
Edwin Williams: Ellipisis
Friedrich Neubarth: Polarity: negative
Martin Prinzhorn & Gerhard Brugger: On the internal and external
syntax of definite DPs in German
Martina Wiltschko: Extraposition and Identification
Jacek Witkos: The Genitive of Negation
The 16th and last talk in the Southampton University Cognitive Science
Centre's inaugural year's series will be given by Jeff Pullum. It is
the latest development in the hard times on which the beleaguered
Whorf/Sapir Hypothesis has fallen in recent years. For more
information, see the URLs following the abstract. Not all the news
for Whorf is bad...
4:00 pm Wednesday 31 May 1995
Lecture Room 1, Murray Building, Southampton University
ESKIMO SNOW VOCABULARY: WHAT ARE THE ACTUAL FACTS?
AND WHAT IMPLICATIONS DO THEY HAVE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CATEGORIZATION?
Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of California, Santa Cruz
ABSTRACT: An astonishingly large number of both popular and scholarly
sources assert that the Eskimos have an interestingly large number of
words for snow. Yet the claims about how many are all different. So are
the conclusions we are apparently supposed to draw about language and
thought. Laura Martin first drew attention to this in a paper on the
anthropology of anthropologists [American Anthropologist 88.2 (1986)
418-423]. I subsequently published a tongue-in-cheek essay that mocked
linguists for being unaware of her work and generally doing less than
nothing to fight the spread of "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" [the
eponymous essay in my 1991 book] --- and have found, to my dismay, that
it now gets cited as research on Eskimo lexicology. But in truth,
although assorted lists of possibly relevant material have appeared on
the LINGUIST mail list and the sci.lang newsgroup, no one has yet
published a linguistic analysis and assessment of the relevant facts,
or attempted to assess the logic of the multitude of morals for our
theories of language and thought that have been implicitly attached to
the supposed facts. In this work-in-progress talk, based on joint
research with Laura Martin, a start is made on this project. The talk
is relatively nontechnical, but departs from most previous work by
actually looking at lexical material from some of the eight Eskimo
languages.
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Stevan Harnad
Professor of Psychology
Director, Cognitive Sciences Centre
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
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phone: +44 1703 592582
fax: +44 1703 594597
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NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
Department of Cognitive Science
Admission to the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science is open
till July 30.
It offers the following degrees: Post-Graduate Diploma, M.Sc.,
Ph.D.
FEATURES
Teaching in English both in the regular courses at NBU and
in the intensive courses at the Annual International Summer
Schools.
Strong interdisciplinary program covering Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence, Neurosciences, Linguistics, Philosophy,
Mathematics, Methods.
Theoretical and experimental research in integration of the
symbolic and connectionist approaches, emergent hybrid cognitive
architectures, models of memory and reasoning, analogy, vision,
imagery, agnosia, language and speech processing, aphasia.
Advisors: at least two advisors with different backgrounds,
possibly one external international advisor.
International dissertation committee.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA), Amedeo Cappelli (CNR, Italy),
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy), Daniel Dennett (Tufts
University, USA), Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen,
Holland), Christian Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany), Dedre
Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Christopher Habel
(Hamburg University, Germany), Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana
University, USA), Joachim Hohnsbein (University of Dortmund,
Germany), Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA), Mark Keane (Trinity
College, Ireland), Alan Lesgold (University of Pittsburg, USA),
Willem Levelt (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics,
Holland), Ennio De Renzi (University of Modena, Italy), David
Rumelhart (Stanford University, USA), Richard Shiffrin (Indiana
University, USA), Paul Smolensky (University of Colorado, USA),
Chris Thornton (University of Sussex, England ), Carlo Umilta'
(University of Padova, Italy)
ADDMISSION REQUIREMENTS
B.Sc. degree in psychology, computer science, linguistics,
philosophy, neurosciences, or related fields.
Good command of English.
Address:
Cognitive Science Department,
New Bulgarian University,
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria,
tel.: (+3592) 55-80-65
fax: (+3592) 54-08-02
e-mail: cogs(a)adm.nbu.bg or kokinov(a)bgearn.acad.bg
Az IUHPS/DLMPS hazai bizottsaga szeretettel meghiv mindenkit
Jon Ringen (Iowa State Univ.)
Relativism, Rationality, and Human Cognition
c. eloadasara.
Idopont: majus 25 (csutortok) 18:00
Hely: BME oktatoi klubja, kozponti epulet, I. em. 66.
Forrai Gabor
Margitay Tihamer
Kedves Kolle'ga'k
A Magyar Pszicholo'giai Ta'rsasa'g A'ltala'nos e's Szeme'lyise'gle'lektani Szekci<=ja Thetas az ELTE
A'ltala'nos Pszicholo'giai Tansze'ke tudoma'nyos vitade'lelo"to:tt szervez
Az INTENCIONALITA'S A MAI PSZICHOLO'GIA'BAN
te'ma'ban.
INTENTIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
Talks of 25 minutes are followed by 15 minutes discussion. Working language will be English
Time and place:June 6th, Tuesday, 9-12 . Izabella u. 46. III. E. 301.
Please come and bring other interested people.
Preliminary program
Mezei, Bala'zs (ELTE): Intentionality from a philosophical point of view
Harnis, Michael (U. of Arizona): Issues of intentionality
Kiss, Szabolcs (ELTE): Intentionality in an evolutionary context
Geeczy, Istvaan (ELTE-MTA): Intentionality in animal learning *NEW*
Gergely,Gyo:rgy (MTA,ELTE): The theory of mind paradigm in contemporary developmental psychology
Bi'ro', Szilvia (MTA): Formation of the agent concept
Koo's,Orsolya(MTA): Naive thory of rational action in infancy
Szi'ves u:dvo:zlettel
Mindenkit szivesen latunk, hivjatok masokat is es hirdessetek
Ple'h Csaba
Kedves Kolle'ga'k
A Magyar Pszicholo'giai Ta'rsasa'g A'ltala'nos e's Szeme'lyise'gle'lektani Szekci<=ja Thetas az ELTE
A'ltala'nos Pszicholo'giai Tansze'ke tudoma'nyos vitade'lelo"to:tt szervez
Az INTENCIONALITA'S A MAI PSZICHOLO'GIA'BAN
te'ma'ban.
INTENTIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
Talks of 25 minutes are followed by 15 minutes discussion. Working language will be English
Time and place:June 6th, Tuesday, 9-12 . Izabella u. 46. III. E. 301.
Please come and bring other interested people.
Preliminary program
Mezei, Bala'zs (ELTE): Intentionality from a philosophical point of view
Harnis, Michael (U. of Arizona): Issues of intentionality
Kiss, Szabolcs (ELTE): Intentionality in an evolutionary context
Gergely,Gyo:rgy (MTA,ELTE): The theory of mind paradigm in contemporary developmental psychology
Bi'ro', Szilvia (MTA): Formation of the agent concept
Koo's,Orsolya(MTA): Naive thory of rational action in infancy
Szi'ves u:dvo:zlettel
Ple'h Csaba
