7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
2:33 p.m.
The Rector and Permanent Fellows of
COLLEGIUM BUDAPEST
Institute for Advanced Study invite you to a
Public Lecture
by
Daniel Dennett
"Evolution in
animal culture and human culture"
on
Tuesday
18 June 2002, 5.30 p.m.
at
Collegium Budapest
1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u. 2.
The genome is not the only information highway used to transmit design from one organism
to another:
culture or "tradition" is another, and it has developed in many species. In our
species, this highway has
become an information superhighway. Why? What kinds of replication are possible in human
culture that are
not possible in animal culture? (This question will deal with some of the issues raised
in Bence Nánay's talk,
"Genes, Memes, and Photocopied Pages" on 6 June.) What features of our evolved
brains might be genetic
responses to selective pressures that arise with culture, and what features might be
adaptations more directly
shaped by culture thanks to phenotypic plasticity?
Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University.
Born in 1942. 1963 BA, Harvard University, cum laude; 1965 DPhil, Oxford; university
professor, Tufts
University; memberships: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association of
University
Professors, American Philosophical Association (President, Eastern Division, 2000),
Cognitive Science
Society, Council for Philosophical Studies (1980-1984), Society for Philosophy and
Psychology (President,
1980-1981); editorial: Associate Editor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Journal of
Cognitive
Neuroscience; Editorial Board: Cognitive Science, Consciousness and Cognition: An
International Journal;
Journal of Consciousness Studies; Perception Biology and Philosophy; Brain and Mind.
Selected Publications:
Content and Consciousness (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (1978).
with Douglas Hofstadter (eds), The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and
Soul
(New York: Basic Books, 1981).
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (MIT Press, 1984).
The Intentional Stance (MIT Press, 1987).
Consciousness Explained (Little, Brown, 1991).
Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon and Schuster, 1995).
Kinds of Minds (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998).
Az intencionalitás filozófiája [Philosophy of intentionality] (Budapest: Osiris Kiadó,
1998), essays translated
into Hungarian by Csaba Pléh.
Professor Dennett will give his inaugural lecture entitled Explaining the 'magic of
consciousness' at the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences on June 19, 2002, at 3 p.m.
Site : Roosevelt tér, the Main Building of the Academy, Felolvasó Terem , I. emelet
Csaba Pleh, Professor of Psychology
Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Center for Cognitive Science
Presently at Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Szentharomsag u 2 H-1014
cspleh@ colbud.hu, T: 3612248323, Fax: 3612248310 Mobile: (06)303500431