Was Wittgenstein a connectionist, after all?

About four decades ago linguistics underwent a rule-based conversion that seemed to last unquestioned for ever. Some of the lasting new ideas initiated by the early work of Noam Chomsky (Chomsky, 1957, 1965) were all centered around the concept of rules. Tovább

Decomposition and reassembling of the self: :Possibilities of meeting cognitive and social constructions

The paper tries to survey and analyze the different proposals raised in connection with questioning of the unified and unitary Cartesian self as a starting point for philosophy, the humanities, and psychology.  Tovább

Karl Popper's biological views contemporary cognitive science and psycholgy

In this paper, my main intention is to show that Popper has been unduly neglected in overall views about the status of psychology as a science and regarding the contentful aspects of psychology.  Tovább

The Catholic tradition and the beginnings of Hungarian Psychology: Harkai. Dienes, Schütz

The aim of this article is neither a detailed analysis of the Catholic tradition of psychology in Hungary, nor a detailed analysis of how the works mentioned here are related to the integral history of Hungarian psychology.  Tovább

Hungarian contributors to modern psychology

I wish to claim in this paper that psychology is not entirely neutralized and decontextualized as a science regarding its sociological background. Therefore in analyzing its trends there is something to be learned from its national characteristics beyond the mere fact of there being national differences. Tovább

Ernst Mach and Daniel Dennett: Two Evolutionary Models of Cognition

The paper compares the interpretation of the relevance of evolutionary theory for epistemology and psychology given by Mach and Dennett. Tovább

Autonomy of the arts and the modularity issue

Autonomy, of course, can mean several different things regarding art, s the diversity of contributions to this conference clearly indicated it. Tovább

Positive psychology traditions in classical European psychology

The paper shows that three ideas of contemporary positive psychology, the internal value of personality, the independent value of knowledge, and the role of self initiated activity were present in some European trends from 19th century on. Tovább

Darwinians of the soul

The paper gives a concise summary of the recent upsurge of evolutionary ideas in psychology. Tovább

Thoughts on the distribution of thoughts: memes or epidemies

The paper starts from a general consideration of three programs in cognitive science: The internalist, the externalists and the socials approaches to cognition. Tovább

Narrativity in the text construction and self construction

The paper tries to suggest parallels between the study of narrative organziation of psychology and the philosophical trends towards a decomposed view of the human mind. Tovább

The symbolics of psychology under a totalitarian system: The case of Hungary in the 60's

In the recent articulation of the strong program in science studies a special attention is paid to the issue of the separability of the scientific content on the one hand and the symbolic role of scientific theories on the other. Most of the proponents of the strong program (the Edinburgh program, if you like) take a rather clear stance here. Tovább