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Talk: Christophe will talk at the University of Neuchâtel, Center for Cognitive Science

October 24, 2025

The talk will be on Thursday 30th. It will be on ways to satisfy informative intention.

Talk: Christophe will talk at the University of Vienna, for the CogCom seminar

October 10, 2025
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The talk will take place on Monday, 13.10.2025, 13:15 PM, UBB Seminar Room 5.1 

Benedek Bartha presented a poster on evidentials at AMLAP, in Prague

September 8, 2025

Benedek presented his study at AMLAP on the evidentials with a poster called "Conceptual similarity, but not informativeness, shapes evidential systems during learning"

Thesis defence: Ákos Szegőfi on 'Gaming epistemic vigilance'

September 7, 2025

Dr. Szegőfi successfully defended and was awarded the coveted title of Doctor.

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Gaming epistemic vigilance by Ákos Szegőfi

 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1 P.M. CET

PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Christophe Heintz (CEU)

SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: György Gergely  (CEU)

 

Members of the Dissertation Committee:

 

Eva Wittenberg, Chair, CEU

Reka Blazsek and Katarina Kovacevic talked at CogSci 2025, held in San Francisco

August 10, 2025

Reka and Katarina talked at CogSci 2025

and contributed to the proceedings of the conference with:

Who owns new creations?: Initiation weighs more than completion
R Blazsek, C Heintz, JF Kominsky
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47, 4157-4162 2025

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Katarina Kovacevic is a visiting fellow at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow

August 2, 2025
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Katarina has been awarded a Maretta Blau grant from the OeAD for working at Jagiellonian University on how people perceive the legal requirement to know the law.

She will be a visiting fellow in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, from September 2025 to January, 2026.

ACES at EuroXPhi: Salima and Katarina presented their work in Norwich, UK

June 15, 2025

Katarina Kovacevic and Salima Issina presented their work at the 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference.

Salima talked about Coordination by Precedent in Judicial Decision-Making and Katrina talked about Epistemic counterfactual interventions in responsibility ascription

Thesis defence: Angarika Deb, "The psychology of inequality"

June 11, 2025

Dr. Angarika Deb successfully defended her doctoral thesis!

The Psychology of Inequality by Angarika Deb

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025, 3 P.M. CET|

PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Christophe Heintz (CEU)

Talk: Christophe will speak about literal meaning in Paris

May 15, 2025

In June, Christophe will speak about the lilteralist mode of interpretation at ENS-PSL, for the workshop "Explaining culture: an interdisciplinary approach" (26-28 May, 2025). Here is the title and abstract:

The literalist mode of interpretation

Talk: Christophe speaks about 'informative intentions' in St Andrews and Manchester

May 3, 2025

Christophe will present his work at the University of St Andrews (May 6th), and then at the University of Manchester (May, 20th) on ''ways of satisfying informative intentions''.

Here is the abstract:

This presentation examines various strategies for satisfying informative intentions. It situates 'ostensive communication' as just one of those strategies.