THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
February Program
21 February (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest
Commutativity, commeasurabilty, and contextuality
28 February (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Maria Kronfeldner
Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest
Two reasons why the purist approach to science fails with respect to thick
concepts
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Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of
the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in
your institution!)
The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee
break, 60 minute discussion.
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
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L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Professor of Philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by
Laszlo Talas<http://camolab.com/members.php?s=talas> (Camo Lab, University of Bristol)
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 17:00-18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101
The cultural evolution of camouflage uniform patterns: visual concealment as foreign policy?
Why do armies operating in similar environments (e.g. temperate woodlands of Europe) wear markedly different dress? The primary function of military camouflage is generally understood to be concealment, however the vast diversity of camouflage patterns (over 600 patterns in the past century) suggests additional design factors. One hypothesis is that camouflage patterns can also act as signals of alliance and aiding soldiers to distinguish friend from foe. On the other hand, newly independent states can endorse their identity by issuing distinctive camouflage. In both cases, designs must remain constrained to function as adequate concealment. The aim of this presentation is to show how a phylogenetic model can be useful for testing these hypotheses. In order to quantify similarity between patterns, we used methods derived from computer vision to compare their texture and colour. Camouflage of countries can be represented as phylogenies; temporal information (e.g. when patterns were issued) is readily available. Using two cases studies - the post-Cold War changes in East European camouflage and the emergence of Post-Yugoslavian patterns - I will demonstrate how certain "design drifts" can be detected throughout the history of camouflage uniforms.
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
Social Mind Center Events at CEU: http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events
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Dear All,
we are happy to announce the 10th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, titled Communication, Pragmatics, and Theory of Mind. The conference will take place on 24-27 May 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Submission is now open, we invite poster submissions from all areas of cognitive science.
For more information please visit: http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php
or email us: ducog(a)cogsci.bme.hu<mailto:ducog@cogsci.bme.hu>
On behalf of the organisers,
Bálint Forgács
Lilla Magyari
X. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science<http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php>
Communication, Pragmatics, and Theory of Mind
24-27 May 2018
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Submission is now open<http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_submission.php> !
Submission deadline: 28 February
We invite poster submissions from all areas of cognitive science.
Invited speakers
Noah Goodman
Stanford University
Judit Holler
MPI for Psycholinguistics
Arthur M. Jacobs
Freie Universität, Berlin
Ira Noveck
CNRS, Lyon
Nausicaa Pouscoulous
University College London
Paula Rubio-Fernandez
Massachusetts Institute for Technology
Deirdre Wilson
University College London
CORVINUS GAME THEORY SEMINAR
Corvinus University of Budapest
Address: Közraktár u. 2-4., Budapest
February 2 (Friday), 11:00-12:00, Room C:106 (New bldg)
Ido Erev (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Anomalies, forecasts, and decision research during the big data revolution
Behavioral decision research highlights interesting choice anomalies,
and proposes elegant cognitive models that can explain these
phenomena.Yet, it is often easier to predict behavior with theory-free
machine learning tools than with the leading cognitive models.One reason
for the difficulty in deriving general predictions using cognitive
models is that different models are often proposed to explain different
phenomena.It is then unclear which model to use to address a new
task.The current talk reviews recent research and describes a new choice
prediction competition project (https://cpc18.wordpress.com) that tries
to address this problem.
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Richard Szanto
Department of Decision Sciences
Corvinus University of Budapest