Colloquia

May 18, 2012 Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas, Austin
An Originalist Theory of Concepts
April 26, 2012 William Harper, University of Western Ontario
Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method
March 16, 2012 William Bechtel, Department of Philosophy and Center for Chronobiology, University of California, San Diego
Organization and Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation
February 23, 2012 Marta Helina, University of California, San Diego
Are Great Apes Capable of Level 1 Visual Perspective Taking?
February 17, 2012 Nicholas Teh, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
On Topological Objects in Field Theory
February 10, 2012 Jim Weatherall, University of California, Irvine
Can Newtonian Gravitation Explain Inertial Motion?
January 27, 2012 Brandon Fogel, University of Chicago
You Can’t Always Get What You Want: How Bell’s Theorems Just Might Help Physics Get What it Needs
January 13, 2012 Bryan Roberts, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
When Does Quantum Mechanics Distinguish Past from Future?
November 18, 2011 Sheldon Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
The Miracle of Applied Mathematics: A Case Study in Mathematical Development Involving the Fractional Derivative
November 4, 2011 Tamar Lando, University of California, Berkeley
Probabilistic Semantics for Modal Logic
October 21, 2011 Jan-Willem Romeijn, University of Groningen
A New Resolution of the Judy Benjamin Problem
October 7, 2011 Andrew Hamilton, Arizona State University
Groups, Individuals, and the Emergence of Sociality