Causation and Causal Talk
Eric Swanson
Wed Jan 26, 01-03:00pm, 32-D831
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Ordinary talk about causation is sensitive to context in dramatic but often neglected ways. We'll discuss this context sensitivity and its importance for a few selected issues in metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind.
Contact: Eric Swanson, 32-D927, 253-5286, swanson@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Computational Linguistics Reading Group
Asaf Bachrach, Roni Katzir, Ivona Kucerova, Raj Singh
Mon-Fri, Jan 3-7, 10-14, 04-06:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Discussion of work related to language and computation.
Presentations by students and faculty include, both ongoing research and classical works in the field.
Contact: Graduate Students, ling_comp-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Language and Learnability
Asaf Bachrach, Roni Katzir, Ivona Kucerova, Raj Singh
Mon Jan 10 thru Fri Jan 14, 10am-06:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Discussion of issues of learning and learnability and their relation to language and cognition. Speakers from Linguistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science will present their perspective on these topics.
Presentations from Adam Albright, Michael Collins, and others.
Sessions will be held three times per day:
10:00-12:00pm
1:00-3:00pm
4:00-6:00pm
Please visit the conference web site for more details.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/iap05.html
Contact: Graduate Students, ling_comp-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Model-Based Science and the Representational Theory of Mind
Peter-Godfrey Smith Harvard/ANU
Wed Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This paper explores the idea that the representational theory of the mind is better understood as a representational model of the mind, in the sense of 'model' employed by philosophers of science such as Suppes and van Fraassen. The full paper is available at the URL below.
Web: http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~pgs/Online_papers/PGSonRTM04M.pdf
Contact: Richard Holton, 32-D930, 253-2618, holton@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Programming for Linguists
Roni Katzir
Mon Jan 3 thru Fri Jan 7, 10am-12:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
An intensive introduction to programming and computation for linguists with little or no background in these areas. Topics will include both practical aspects of programming and introductory formal language theory. The main goal is to develop a parser by the end of the week.
Contact: Roni Katzir, 32-D774, 253-4429, trifilij@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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The 2005 Lecture In Memory of George S. Boolos
Richard Heck, Harvard University
Fri Jan 28, 03:30-06:00pm, 32-123, reception to follow
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Professor Richard Heck of Harvard University will deliver a memorial lecture in honor of George S. Boolos. The topic of the lecture will be "Formal Arithmetic Before Grundgesetze."
Web: http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/booloslecture.html
Contact: Christine Graham, 32-D808, 253-4141, cgraham@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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What Is Pleasure? Proposals and Problems, from Plato to Affective Neuroscience
Leonard D. Katz
Tue Jan 18, 03-05:00pm, 37-212
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Conjectures about the physiology, function, and cognitive structure of pleasure will be discussed -- and also their bearing on whether pleasure is one uniformly valuable kind or divides into relevantly different kinds or subkinds.
Contact: Leonard D. Katz, 32-D908, lkatz@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Workshop on Japanese and Korean Linguistics
Nobuko Hasegawa, Jae-Woong Choe
Tue Jan 25, 10am-06:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
A linguistics workshop mainly on Japanese, Korean, and perhaps Chinese with presentations and discussions of 10 or more papers.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/jk_iap
Contact: Nobuko Hasegawa, 32-D908, nhase@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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