Martin Prinzhorn's classes next week starting

Martin PRINZHORN (Vienna University, Linguistics) is our guest from 7th to 14th of March, next week. His course outline is given below. He will be reachable in Izabella street, int the guest appartment and in my room (316). All our wellcome, please post this note. CONSCIOUSNESS, MODULARITY, AND REPRESENTATION In the first part of this minicourse I will look at "fragmented" models of consciousness which try to deal with perception-without awareness-phenomena in the areas of vision, face recognition, semantic memory etc.. In particular, Schacter's DICE (dissociated interaction and conscious experience) model will be discussed. The conceptually interesting question that these models bring up has to do with the interaction of vertical systems and the horizontal system in the sense of Fodor (1983). Does a modularization of consciousness force us to rethink both the dychotomy model of Fodor (1983) and the language-of-thought-hypothesis of Fodor (1975, 1994)? In the second part I will concentrate on represetational systems and their relation to grammar. In order to handle the interface problem between a semantically "shallow" grammar and a semantically evaluable central (conscious?) system, I will defend a theory of representational error which is based on linguistic considerations (concerning the role of modification in grammar) and on Cummins' (1996) teleological idea of a "target," an "intensional concept but one that differs importantly from that of an ordinary intentional object." Literature Bornstein, Robert & Thane Pittman (eds.)(1992): Peception without Awareness. Cognitive, Clinical, and Social Perspectives. New York: The Guilfort Press. Cummins, Robert (1996): Representations, Targets, and Attitudes. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press Fodor, Jerry (1975): The Language of Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press Fodor, Jerry (1983): The Modularity of Mind. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press Fodor, Jerry (1994): The Elm and the Elk. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press Marcel, Anthony & Edoardo Bisiach (eds.) (1988): Consciousness in Contemporary Science. Oxfort: Clarendon Press Umilta, Carlo & Morris Moscovich (eds.) (1994): Attention and Performance XV. Conscious and Nonconscious Information Processing. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press Arragment of the classes site: Izabella 46, 316. Times: Thursday, 7th 16 P.M. Friday, 7th 16 P.M. Monday,. 11th, 16 P.M. Tuesaday, 12th, 15 P.M. Wednesday, 13th, 16 P.M. This might be slightly modified on the first meeting. All the best, and we expect all, Csaba Pleh