Csaba Pléh dist. visiting professor

CEU Department of Cognitive Science

1051 Budapest Nádor utca 9

Office: Október 6. u. 7 , 104

Member HAS and Academia Europaae, Review Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology

www.plehcsaba.eu

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Subject: [CEU Cogsci Talks] Summer School Course “Thinking About the Possible” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from 9 July, 2018 till 14 July, 2018

Summer School Course “Thinking About the Possible” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from 9 July, 2018 till 14 July, 2018

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Dear All,

The application system is open now and we accept applications till February 14! Please feel free to spread the word to your colleagues and students!

CEU's summer school “Thinking About the Possible” invites applications from graduate students, junior faculty, researchers and practitioners in universities and other institutions from all over the world.

Thinking about the possible and impossible and exploring counterfactual (“what if?”) scenarios are fundamental aspects of the human mind. The boundary conditions for counterfactual thinking, and the extent to which it shares the same underlying cognitive machinery with related abilities such as episodic future thinking and pretend play, are currently the subjects of substantial debate in philosophy and psychology.

The course will bring together diverse perspectives on imagination and counterfactual reasoning, with seminars offered by faculty from the fields of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Informatics on a range of topics. Course participants will learn about empirical techniques and findings from studies in cognitive development, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience and will engage with theoretical perspectives on the nature of imagination and counterfactual reasoning.

We would appreciate if you could spread this information to your colleagues, students and research fellows.