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September 2005
Friday, 9 September 2005
The Berlin School and its Transatlantic Fate
Nicholas Rescher, U. of Pittsburgh, Philosophy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday and Thursday, 13 & 15 September 2005
What is Science?
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, U. of Hannover
Ctr. for Philosophy and Ethics of Science
A joint colloquium co-sponsored by CMU, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Part I: The Short Answer
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, 15 September 2005
Part II: The Long Answer
4:30 pm, A53 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon Campus
Friday, 16 September 2005
Perception and its Objects
Bill Brewer, U. of Warwick, Philosophy
Annual Lecture Series
3:30 pm, 2500 W.W. Posvar Hall
Tuesday, 20 September 2005
On the Identity Conditions of Scientific Disciplines
Aristides Baltas, National Technical U. of Athens,
Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Aristotle's Philosophy of Psychology
David Charles, U. of Oxford
Oriel College, Dept. of Philosophy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Friday, 30September 2005
Darwin on Orchids: Teleology with a Twist
John Beatty, U. of British Columbia, Philosophy
Annual Lecture Series
3:30 pm, 2500 W.W. Posvar Hall
Reception in honor of Jim Lennox will follow
October
Tuesday, 4 October 2005
The Geometer as Conjuror
The Status of Force in Newton-Cartan Theory
Alexander Afriat, U. of Urbino, Italy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 7 October 2005
The Measurement of Time
Brad Skow, U. of Massachusetts
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 11October 2005
Scientific Explanation and Laws of Nature
Wang Wei, Tsinghua, U. of China
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 14 October 2005
Biology and the Justification of Ethics
Gabriele De Anna, U. of Udine, Italy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 18 October 2005
Russell's Debt to Lotze's Philosophy of Science
Nikolay Milkov, U. of Bielefeld, Germany
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 21 October 2005
Faking Wisdom: Plato on Sophists as Appearance-Makers
Jonathan Beere, U. of Chicago
3:30 pm, 244B Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
No-Miracles, Pessimistic Inductions, and Structural Realism
John Worrall, London School of Economics
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 28 October 2005
True, False, and Paranormal
J.C. Beall, U. of Connecticut
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
November/December
Tuesday, 1 November 2005
A New Reconstruction of Zeno’s Flying Arrow
Milos Arsenijevic, U. Belgrade, Philosophy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 4 November 2005
Probability and its Interpretations
Maria Carla Galavotti, U. of Bologna, Philosophy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 4 November 2005
The Deontic Reduces to the Evaluative
Michael Smith, U. of Princeton
3:30 pm, 139 Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger
Edward Gerjuoy, U. Pittsburgh, Physics & Astronomy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 11November 2005
Testing Newton, Then and Now: The Logic of Evidence in Gravity Research from Newton through the 20th Century
George E. Smith, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT/Tufts U., Philosophy
3:30 pm, 2500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Friday, 18 November 2005
Plato and the Desire for the Good
Rachel Barney, U. of Toronto, Philosophy & Classics
3:30 pm, 149 Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 6 December 2005
The Great Struggle Between Cantorians and Aristotelians: Much ado about nothing
Milos Arsenijevic, U. Belgrade, Philosophy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 9 December 2005
The Rise and Fall of Panselectionism
Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth College, Biological Sciences
3:30 pm, 2500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
January 2006
Friday, 13 January 2006
Limits and Limitations
Nicholas Rescher, Dept. of Philosophy, Pitt
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Emotion, Action, and Reason
Craig Delancey, Dept. of Philosophy, State U. of New York, Oswego
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 20 January 2006
The Philosophy of Ptolemaic Astronomy
Bernard R. Goldstein, U. Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies and HPS, Pitt
3:30 pm, 2500 W.W. Posvar Hall
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Bias is OK
Jason Grossman, U. of Sydney and U. of Queensland
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Friday, 27 January 2006
Defending Realism on the Proper Ground
Athanassios Raftopoulos, Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cyprus
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Unification and Evidence
Malcolm Forster, Dept. of Philosophy, U. Wisconsin-Madison
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
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