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LOGIC
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LOGIC
AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Colloquia 2002/2003 |
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All colloquia take place on Friday at 3pm in SST 777 (GPACS
Conference room),
unless otherwise noted.
For further information regarding the specific time and location of
a talk,
click on the appropriate hyperlink.
See also:
Philosophy
Department Colloquia
or look at past
colloquia.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 4 | Bill Harper University of Western Ontario |
"Newton's Moon-test" |
| October 18 | Marc Lange University of Washington |
"Laws and their Stability" |
| Ocotber 26 Saturday |
Logical
Constants
Workshop Phineas Banning Alumni House |
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| November 15 | Bill Harms Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC/Seattle Central Community College |
"Computational Evolutionary Epistemology" |
| November 22 | Bob Batterman The Ohio State University |
"Falling Cats, Parallel Parking, and Polarized Light" |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 24 | Ernie Lepore Rutgers University |
"Context Shifting Arguments" |
| February 7 | Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin - Madison |
"Likelihood, Model Selection, and the Duhem-Quine Problem" |
| February 14 | Elaine Landry University of Calgary |
What Structure Is and That Structure Is. |
| February 21 | Stephen Yablo Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Content Carving for Fun and Profit" |
| February 28 | Lawrence Sklar Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy The University of Michigan Philosophy/LPS Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Lecture |
"Scientific Idealization and Scientific Reality" Please note: 7:30 p.m. Social Science Lecture Hall 100 |
| March 7 | John Burgess Princeton University |
"From Frege to Friedman: a Dream Come True?" |
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| April 4 | Michael Glanzberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Presuppositions, Truth Values, and Expressing Propositions" |
| April 10 | Thomas Forster Cambridge University |
"Evolution of the Platonic workshop: the manufacture of new mathematical entities" |
| April 11 | Wolfgang Spöhn Universitat Konstanz |
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| May 2 | Paolo Mancosu University of California, Berkeley |
"The varieties of mathematical explanation" |
| May 9 | Miklós Rédei Loránd Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary and Visiting Scholar, UC Irvine |
"Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle" |
| May 16 | Rick Grush University of California, San Diego |
"Brain time and Phenomenological Time" |
| May 30 | Christopher Martin Indiana University |
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