Colloquia 2007/2008

Fall quarter schedule
Winter quarter schedule
Spring quarter schedule

All colloquia take place on Friday at 3pm in SST 777 (GPACS Conference room),
unless otherwise noted.

For further information about a talk listed below, click on the title.

See also:
Philosophy Department colloquia
and
past LPS colloquia

Fall Quarter, 2007:

Date	Speaker	Title
October 5	Franz Huber	"Rankings Rock"
October 19	Elaine Landry	"A Silly Answer to a Psillos Question: Objects in Mathematics and Physics "
November 2	Michael Dickson	"Nano-Observables and Humane Quantum Theory"
November 16	Waldemar Rohloff	"Frege's Transcendental Logic"
November 30	Erich Reck	"Dedekind, Structural Reasoning, and Mathematical Understanding"

Winter Quarter, 2008:

Date	Speaker	Title
January 11	Joel Velasco	"The Prior Probabilities of Phylogenetic Trees"
January 14	Laura Franklin-Hall	"Plato's Joints"
January 18	James Justus	"A Theory of Stability"
January 21	Gillian Barker	"Naturalism and the Organism-Artifact Analogy in the Functions Debate"
March 7	Ruth Millikan	"Conceptual Representation in Biological Systems"
March 14 - 15	Skyrmsfest (Conference to Honor Brian Skyrms' 70th Birthday)

Spring Quarter, 2008:

Date	Speaker	Title
April 4	David Albert	"The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Meaning of Probability"
April 11	David Ellerman	"The Logic of Partitions-- with an application to Information Theory"
April 25	Eckehart Kohler	"Godel and Carnap: Platonism vs. Conventionalism"
May 2	R. Lanier Anderson	"A Difficult Birth: The Emergence of Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction"
May 30	Paul Churchland	"On the Genesis of Conceptual Frameworks: the Learning of Structures in Time"
June 6	Don Fallis	"What is Lying?"

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