PSYCOLOQUY (Announcements: 238 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY
(1) Announcement: Qualitative and Quantitative Research.
(2) Announcement: International Conference on Cognitive Science.
(3) Announcement: Interactivist Summer Institute.
(4) Announcement: International Conference on Sensorimotor Control.
(5) Announcement: Machine Learning as Experimental Phil. of Science.
(6) Announcement: From Signals to Structured Communication.
(7) Announcement: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
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From: Katja Mruck (mr...@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Research.
Fulltexts FQS 2(1) "Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Conjunctions
and Divergences" online.
http://www.qualitative-research.net
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
FQS--Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social
Research (ISSN 1438-5627)--is a multilingual online journal for
qualitative research. The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and
cooperation between qualitative researchers from different nations and
social science disciplines. Fulltexts are available for free, abstracts
are published in English, German and Spanish language.
FQS 2(1) is dedicated to "Qualitative and Quantitative Research:
Conjunctions and Divergences". It is available online since the
beginning of February: In 18 contributions researchers from different
disciplines (mainly Psychology and Sociology, but also Politics,
Communication Sciences, English and Agribusiness) and countries
(Canada, Columbia, England, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Philippines,
USA) discuss the logic of relating qualitative and quantitative
methods, approaches for inter-relating qualitative and quantitative
method, and innovative applications of methodological inter-relation.
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From: Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science (iccs2...@blcs.ac.cn)
Subject: International Conference on Cognitive Science.
The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)
August 27-31, 2001, Beijing, China
Second Announcement
The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS) will be
held in Beijing, China on August 27-31, 2001. The purpose of this
Conference is to bring together researchers from various active areas
in cognitive science for update of research progress. The Conference
has arranged fifteen plenary talks and organized nine symposia covering
broad areas in cognitive science.
Important Dates (Revised):
Registration beginning: March 01
Submission deadline (full-length paper and abstract): April 30
Notification of acceptance: May 31
Submission of camera-ready papers: June 30
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From: Robert Campbell (cam...@CLEMSON.EDU)
Subject: Interactivist Summer Institute.
The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001
July 23-27, 2001
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2001.html
It's happening: research threads in multiple fields scattered across
the mind-sciences seem to be converging towards a point where the
classical treatment of representation within the encodingist framework
is felt as an impasse. A rethinking of the methods, concepts,
arguments, facts, etc. is needed and, so it seems, is being found in
the interactivist approach. From research in human cognition,
motivation, and development, through consciousness, sociality, and
language, to artificial intelligence, post-behaviorist cognitive
robotics, and interface design, we are witnessing the appearance of
projects where the assumptions of interactivism are embraced. More
often then not, this is in an implicit manner, so that at a superficial
level those projects (the problems they deal with, the methods they
use) seem to be incommensurable. However, underneath, one can feel
their interactivist gist. The time is right (and ripe) we felt, to
articulate this "irrational" (in Feyerabendian sense) pressure for
change at a programmatic level, and this is what we want to accomplish
with the present workshop.
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From: Jean-Louis Vercher (ver...@laps.univ-mrs.fr)
Subject: International Conference on Sensorimotor Control.
We are pleased to announce The IIIrd Conference on Sensorimotor systems
in Men and Machines, which will take place on October, Friday 5 -
Saturday 6 2001 at Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France. The first one
was held in Berkeley in 1994 (Starkfest), the second one in Chicago in
1997.
To see details, including the list of speakers, and to obtain your
registration form, visit conference web site at:
http:www.laps.univ-mrs.fr/umr/workshop/index.html
or contact the Conference secretary:
Nathalie FENOUIL
mailto:work...@laps.univ-mrs.fr
+33 [0] 491 17 22 50
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From: Kevin Korb (ko...@csse.monash.edu.au)
Subject: Machine Learning as Experimental Philosophy of Science.
Machine learning studies inductive strategies in algorithms. The
philosophy of science investigates inductive strategies as they appear
in scientific practice. Although the two disciplines have developed
largely independently, they share many of the same issues. This is
slowly coming to be recognized in a number of ways, as evidenced in the
annual Uncertainty in AI and AI and Statistics conferences. This
workshop will explore the extent to which the methods and resources of
philosophy of science and machine learning can inform one another.
In "Computational Philosophy of Science" (1988) Paul Thagard presented
a challenge to the philosophical community: philosophical theories of
scientific method, if they are worth their salt, should be
implementable as computer programs. In this workshop we will address
this challenge and also the inverse challenge to machine learning
researchers: both machine learning algorithms and methods for
evaluating machine learning algorithms should be implementations of
sensible approaches to philosophy of science. Machine learning
researchers have only recently discovered the relevance of statistics
and philosophical views on the foundations of statistics to evaluating
the performance of their systems; we hope this workshop will carry that
discussion further.
The workshop will therefore focus on such questions as:
1. Can machine learning experiments tell us about inductive discovery
in science?
2. What theoretical results in computational learning can be useful in
understanding scientific methods? How can accounts of scientific
confirmation, explanation, discovery and consilience be used to develop
automatic learning systems?
3. How can we assess induction? What statistical or other criteria need
to be met to prefer one machine learning algorithm and/or scientific
method over another? What is the role in machine learning and science
of model building versus prediction?
4. Is there a substantial difference between scientific reasoning as
conceived in the philosophy of science and in machine learning?
5. Is scientific method indeed mechanizable? Are scientific practices
algorithmic?
Note: ECML will be co-located with PKDD 2001 -- the European Conference
on the Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.
For more details see:
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/
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From: Shimon Edelman (se...@cornell.edu)
Subject: From Signals to Structured Communication.
>From Signals to Structured Communication
May 4 and 5
Ithaca, NY
http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/May2001.html
The list of speakers at this Spring Symposium of the Cornell Cognitive
Studies Program includes representatives from neurobiology, ethology,
philosophy, linguistics, economics, game theory, and computer science.
The emergence of a diverse, unconventional and exciting set of
perspectives on communication at this event will be facilitated by
focusing the presentations on certain common threads - notably, issues
having to do with structure, compositional or other - that run through
the entire spectrum of research themes represented at the symposium.
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From: Heather Jones (py...@dredd.csv.warwick.ac.uk)
Subject: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY PRELIMINARY CALL FOR
PAPERS FOR THE 2001 ANNUAL MEETING
FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND, 8-11 AUGUST, 2001
The aim of the Society is "to promote interaction between philosophers
and psychologists on issues of common concern". Psychologists,
neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and biologists are
encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and clinical work that
they judge to have philosophical significance; and philosophers are
encouraged to engage with the fundamental issues addressed by and
arising out of such work. In recent years ESPP sessions have covered
such topics as spatial concepts, simulation theory, attention,
reference, problems of consciousness, emotion, perception, early
numerical cognition, infants' understandingof intentionality, memory
and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics
distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency,
thought without language, externalism, connectionism, and the
interpretation of neuropsychological results.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is 30 APRIL, 2001. Please send a hard copy
of the submissions to each of the three programme chairs, and, in
addition, where possible, an electronic version. If a decision before
the beginning of June is absolutely esential for funding reasons,
please notify us along with your submission. The addresses are as
follows:
Dr Bill Brewer
bill....@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Dr Anton Kuehberger
anton.ku...@sbg.ac.at
Dr Bernhard Schroeder
B.Sch...@uni-bonn.de
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