ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI AT ludens.elte.hu>]

The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, Budapest,
the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Eötvös 
University, Budapest,
the Austrian Society of Organismic-Systemic Research and Theory, 
Vienna

cordially invite you to their workshop

REDUCTIONISM AND HOLISM IN SCIENCES AND IN 
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE


Place:  Eötvös University, Lágymányos Campus
        1117 Budapest, Pázmány sétány 1 / Room 654

Date: 20/22 June 2001


PROGRAM 

Wednesday June 20

15.00
Opening

15.30
Markus Peschl (Department for Philosophy of Science and Social 
Studies of Science, University of Vienna,
Vienna)
Challenging the Reductionist Approach in Cognitive Science

16.30
Péter Szegedi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 
Eötvös University, Budapest)
Correspondence and Incommensurability

17.30
Manfred Fraunlob (Viennese Fund for Integration, Vienna)
Discrimination or Reintegration ? On Legitimate and Illegitimate 
Reductionism in Science and Philosophy


Thursday June 21


9.30
Karl Edlinger (Natural Historical Museum, Vienna)
The Theory of Organismic Constructions: Bridging the Gap between 
Holism and Reductionism

10.30
György Kampis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 
Eötvös University, Budapest)
Complexity in Natural Sciences

11.30
Péter Érdi (Department of Biophysics, KFKI Research Instititue for 
Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 
Budapest)
Social Systems as Complex Interactive Networks


12.30
Lunch Break

14.30
Günther Fleck (Military Psychology Service, Vienna)
Philosophies of Science and their Origins in Ways of Thinking: A 
Psychological Reconstruction

15.30
Katalin Martinás (Department of Atomic Physics, Eötvös University, 
Budapest)
Reductionism and Holism in Economic Theory

16.30
László Ropolyi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 
Eötvös University, Budapest)
Information and Interpretation


Friday June 22

9.30
Simon Jencius (Department of Psychology, University of Vienna, 
Vienna)
Reductionism and Holism in Personality Science

10.30
Csaba Pléh (Depatment of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged 
and Technical University, Budapest)
Types of Classical Reductionism in Psychology and Present Day 
Cognitive Trends

11.30
Ralf Risser (Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna)
The Role of Psychology in the Applied Field of Traffic and Transport

12.30
Closing


For further information please contact:


Béla Rásky
Osztrák Kelet- és Délkelet-Európa Intézet (OSI)
Budapesti Kirendeltsége
Úri utca 53.
H-1014 Budapest
Tel/Fax: 375 68 46
eMail: 
bela.rasky AT univie.ac.at
http://www.nexus.hu/osi-bp


Ropolyi László
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Tudománytörténet és Tudományfilozófia Tanszék
Pázmány Péter sétány 1.
H-1117 Budapest
Tel: 372 2949  Fax: 372 2924
eMail: 
ropolyi AT hps.elte.hu
http://hps.elte.hu