Archive for October 2020
SWIP-TR 3 : Program, Youtube Channel and Registration
The conference will take place online 19-20 November. Some of the talks will be in Turkish and some in English.
The Program, available here has several papers on women in the history of philosophy.
Details about how to register will be available shortly.
Those who are registered will be able to watch the talks on our YouTube Channel.
Registration is now open, here.
Call for Participants: Int. Workshop on Theory (Re-)Construction in the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences (TRC2020), Sat & Sun, 7-8 NOV 2020
Int. Workshop on Theory (Re-)Construction in the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences (TRC2020)
Sat & Sun, 7-8 NOV 2020 (online, using ZOOM)
Boğaziçi University, Dpt. of Philosophy & Cognitive Science Program, 34342 Bebek/Istanbul, Turkey
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
It has been repeatedly observed that the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESBS) lack well-developed theoretical superstructures, structures that researchers could apply to generate (point-)predictive empirical hypotheses. The MTR project treats this lacuna as an important reason to explain, and to treat, the ongoing replicability crisis in the ESBS.
To join this meeting as a discussant, please register on or before 1 NOV 2020.
Participation is on-site or online (using zoom). There are no fees.
SPEAKERS
| Amit Pundik (University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Tel Aviv University, Israel) – Predictive Evidence and Unpredictable Freedom Edouard Machery (Keynote) (University of Pittsburgh, United States) – Are perverse incentives responsible for the replication crisis? Erich Witte (University of Hamburg, Germany) – What is a well-supported empirical theory and research program in psychology and how to measure it? Holger Andreas (The University of British Columbia, Canada) – Carnapian Structuralism Johanna Sarisoy (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) – Methodological Realism in Psychometrics Klaus Fiedler (Keynote) (Heidelberg University, Germany) – Nothing more practical than a good theory… Majid Beni (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) – Fleshing out the social aspect of Cognitive Structural Realism Maximilian Maier, Noah van Dongen and Denny Borsboom (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) – Comparing Theories with the Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence Roberto Fumagalli (King’s College London, United Kingdom)- A Reformed Division of Labour for the Science of Well-Being William Cullerne Bown (Independent, United Kingdom) – Measurement as metaphysics |
Registration https://bit.ly/TRC2020-registration
Learn more about MTR https://mtrboun.wordpress.com/home-2/project/about/
Cog-Sci/Philosophy reading group at Boğaziçi with Mark Bickard (Lehigh) – Fall 2020
This semester the Boğaziçi Philosophy/Cognitive Science reading group will meet on Wednesdays from 6-8pm (Istanbul Time) on zoom. Starting on October 28th, 2020. The zoom link is: https://boun-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/688552381
This semester we will read a book manuscript by Mark Bickhard (Lehigh) and he will attend the weekly meetings. The title of the manuscript is “The Whole Person: Toward a Naturalism of Persons.” We will start this week reading up to p.69.
If you would like to receive a copy of the manuscript, please email Oğuz: oguzerdin@gmail.com
Everyone is welcome.
Talk at Bilkent 8 Oct: Max Cappuccio on Intentionality in Sport Performance (Online Event)
Wax on, Wax Off! Skillful control and varieties of intentionality in sport performance
By Massimiliano L. Cappuccio (UNSW, School of Engineering and Information Technology)
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
Time: 1330-1500 (GMT+3)
Zoom link: This is an online event. All are welcome. If you would like to listen to the talk please click on the following link when the event is due to begin: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82644320711
Abstract: I would like to introduce a thought experiment inspired by the iconic “wax-on-wax-off” Miyagi-sensei’s training routine, as portrayed in the original Karate Kid movie (1984). This experiment provides us with an occasion to revisit the Habitualism vs Intellectualism debate in philosophy of skill & expertise, critically discuss Anders Ericcson’s notion of Deliberate Practice, and appreciate the non-representational nature of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of Motor Intentionality. The key philosophical question to be addressed through this thought experiment is the following: what role does habit formation play in the development of sport skills?
My analysis shows that motor habits are both necessary for and constitutive of sensorimotor skill as they support an automatic, yet inherently intelligent and flexible, form of action control. Intellectualists about skills generally assume that what makes action intelligent and flexible is its intentionality, and that intentionality must be necessarily cognitive in nature to allow for both deliberation and explicit goal-representation. There is some truth to the intellectualist claim that goal-oriented action involves intentionality and that some skilful activities involve cognitive effort, deliberate control, and self-awareness. However, habitual action in sport is too intricate a phenomenon to be accounted for by dichotomies that oppose controlled skillful sport performance (intelligent, deliberate, and controlled actions) and automatized mechanisms (unintelligent, inflexible, motor habits). In this presentation I offer a philosophical alternative that shows how flexibility, control, and intelligence can arise from automatized expert behavior. Against Intellectualism I argue that the habitual behaviours that compose skilful action are accompanied by their specific, non-cognitive form of intentionality: this is motor intentionality, which is purposive and adaptive while involving no explicit deliberation or goal representation.
My account of habit based on Motor Intentionality explains why the formation of motor habits can sometimes act as the sole basis of skill acquisition: Motor Intentionality is inherently purposeful because it is an embodied source of sensorimotor anticipation, pre-reflective motivation, and pragmatic know-how. Skill development through exercise always builds on a motor intentional component even when it is guided by Deliberate Practice to the point that, pace Intellectualism, Deliberate Practice is disclosed, not constrained, by habit formation. As suggested by the fact that repetitive exercises can play a major role in the development of flexible and intelligent sport skills, automatism is not a drawback for strategic control and improvisation but rather their pragmatic foundation.
About the speaker: Massimiliano (Max) Cappuccio is Deputy director of the Values in Defense and Security Technology group at University of New South Wales Canberra. He also holds a secondary affiliation with UAE University, the national university of the United Arab Emirates, where he had been Associate professor of Cognitive science and director of the Cog Sci Lab for several years (August 2011 – December 2018). His research is concerned with the ethical implications of AI and social robotics and the philosophical foundations of cognitive science. As a cognitive philosopher and a philosopher of technology, Max’s research on the processes underpinning embodied cognition, social intelligence, and skill acquisition & disruption aims to integrate phenomenological analyses, empirical experimentation, and synthetic modelling. He conducts an intense activity as organizer of academic events, including interdisciplinary workshops, research seminar series, and international conferences (like the TEMPER workshop on Training, Enhancement, and Military Performance at UNSW Canberra and the annual Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics in Abu Dhabi). He is the editor of the MIT Press Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology.
CFP: Prokopton – Bilkent University Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy
We now accept submissions for the second issue of Prokopton: Bilkent University Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy.
The submission deadline is November 19, 2020.
Check our first issue here.
Among the kinds of philosophical work we accept are original papers, book and article reviews. You can submit your work either in English or Turkish. We also accept translations of philosophical work from any language to Turkish or Turkish to English.
If you would like to submit anything other than original paper(s), please contact us with the details of your work(s). Doing so will highly increase the chances that your work is accepted. Also, make sure to see our previous issues and the kind(s) of work we publish. If you would like to submit an original paper, please take a careful look at our submission guidelines.
You can send all your submissions to prokoptonjournal [at] gmail [dot] com.
To be eligible for submission, you need to be an undergraduate student in the year of the issue you send your work for. For example, you must be an undergraduate student in at least some part of 2021 in order for us to consider your work for our second issue, which is going to be published in 2021. Undergraduate authors from all fields (not just philosophy) are welcome to submit their work.
For more information: http://prokopton.bilkent.edu.tr/
Hesperus is Bosphorus 