- 2011-2012
- 2010-2011
- 2009-2010
- 2008-2009
- 2007-2008
- 2006-2007
- 2005-2006
- 2004-2005
- 2003-2004
- 2002-2003
- 2001-2002
- 2000-2001
- 1999-2000
2011-2012
Fall Quarter, 2011:
Winter Quarter, 2012:
Date | Speaker | Title |
January 13 | When Does Quantum Mechanics Distinguish Past from Future? | |
January 27 | 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 |
February 10 | Jim Weatherall, University of California, Irvine | Can Newtonian Gravitation Explain Inertial Motion? |
February 17 | Nicholas Teh, Trinity College, University of Cambridge | On Topological Objects in Field Theory |
February 23 | Marta Helina, University of California, San Diego | Are Great Apes Capable of Level 1 Visual Perspective Taking? |
March 16 | William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego | Organization and Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation |
Spring Quarter, 2012:
2010-2011
Colloquia take place on Friday at 3pm in SST 777 (GPACS Conference room), unless otherwise noted.
Fall Quarter, 2010:
Date | Speaker | Title |
October 22 | Bradley Monton, University of Colorado, Boulder | In Defense of the Flow of Time |
November 19 | Gunter Wagner, Yale University |
A Measurement Theoretical Approach to Conceptualize Fitness This will be at 3:30pm in SBSG 1517 |
December 10 | Willemien Kets, Santa Fe Institute | Bounded Reasoning and Higher-Order Uncertainty |
Winter Quarter, 2011:
Date | Speaker | Title |
January 7 | Don Garrett, New York University |
Hume's Sense of Probability This talk will be in SBSG 1517. |
January 21 | Andrew Arana, Kansas State University | Purity of methods and the varieties of content |
January 28 | Teru Miyake, Stanford University | Gaining Access: Indirect Measurement in Planetary Astronomy and Geophysics |
February 4 | Sean Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London | Empiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic |
February 11 | Helge Rückert, University of Mannheim | The Conception of Validity in Dialogical Logic |
February 18 | Michael Friedman, Stanford University |
A Post-Kuhnian Approach to the History and Philosophy of Science This talk will be in SBSG 1517. |
February 25 | Hans Halvorson, Princeton University | What scientific theories could not be |
March 4 | Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) | A non-inferentialist, anti-realistic conception of logical truth and falsity |
March 11 | Rick Grush, UCSD |
Demonstratives, space, and control. This talk will be in SBSG 1517. |
Spring Quarter, 2011:
Date | Speaker | Title |
Saturday, April 9 |
Philosophy of Physics Workshop This will be held in SBSG 1517. |
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April 15 | Volker Halbach, Oxford University | Computational Structuralism |
Wednesday, April 20 | Allen Hazen, University of Alberta | A metaphysical ichnofossil: the variable in Quine's ML |
May 6 | Ralf Schindler, Universität Münster | Dilemmas and truths in set theory |
May 20 | Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania |
Russell's Progress: Spatial Dimensions, the From-Which, and the At-Which This will be held in HOB2 232. |
2009-2010
Fall Quarter, 2009:
Date | Speaker | Title |
Thursday, October 29 | Edward Zalta | A Defense of Logicism |
November 20 | Kohei Kishida | Generalized Topological Semantics for First-Order Modal Logic |
December 4 | Patricia Churchland | Morality and the Social Brain |
Winter Quarter, 2010:
Date | Speaker | Title |
January 15, Humanities Gateway, Room 1010 | John McFarlane | Ifs and Oughts |
February 5 | Barry Lam | Calibrated Probabilities and the Epistemology of Disagreement |
February 19 | Paolo Mancosu | Measuring the size of infinite collections of natural numbers: Was Cantor's theory of infinite number inevitable? |
Thursday, February 24 | Roy T. Cook | Revenge, Indefinite Extensibility, and Infinitary Connectives |
March 12, SBSG 1517 | Tony Martin | On the Concept "set of x's" |
Spring Quarter, 2010 :
Date | Speaker | Title |
Monday, March 29 | Dagfinn Follesdal | Gödel and Husserl |
April 16 | Kenny Easwaran | Regularity and Infinitesimal Credences |
April 30 | Thomas Ryckman | (To be announced) |
2008-2009
Fall Quarter, 2008:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 17 |
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Thursday, October 23 (3:30 pm) |
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October 24 |
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October 31 |
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November 14 |
The Meta-Inductivist’s Winning Strategy in the Prediction Game: A New Approach to Hume’s Problem |
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December 5 |
Winter Quarter, 2009:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 23 |
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February 27 |
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March 13, SST 318 |
Spring Quarter, 2009:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 10 |
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May 1, 2pm, SSPB 1208 |
Five Ways Perceptual Content can be Conceptual (or Non-Conceptual) |
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May 1, 4pm, SSPB 1208 |
What We See: The Texture of Conscious Experience |
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Monday, May 11, 11:30 am |
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May 15 |
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June 5 (HIB 315) |
Perceptual Objectivity |
2007-2008
Fall Quarter, 2007:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 5 |
Franz Huber |
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October 19 |
Elaine Landry |
"A Silly Answer to a Psillos Question: Objects in Mathematics and Physics " |
November 2 |
Michael Dickson |
TBA
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November 16 |
Waldemar Rohloff |
TBA |
November 30 |
Erich Reck |
TBA |
Winter Quarter, 2008:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
March 7 |
Ruth Millikan |
TBA |
Spring Quarter, 2008:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 4 |
David Albert |
TBA |
2006-2007
Fall Quarter, 2006:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 29 |
Gunnar Wilken |
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October 6 |
Sue Carey |
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October 13 |
Wayne Wright |
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October 27 |
Wayne Aitken |
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November 13 (Monday) |
Simon Huttegger |
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November 17 |
David Stern |
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December 1 |
Sam Hillier |
"The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction in Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language" |
Winter Quarter, 2007:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 12 |
Jeremy Heis |
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January 26 |
Grant Ramsey |
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February 2 |
William Wojtach |
"The Eyes Don't Have It: A Strategy For Rethinking Perception" |
February 16 |
Justus Diller |
"Functional Interpretations of Constructive Set Theory in All Finite Types" (SST 318) |
March 16 |
Patrick Grim |
"Tangled Webs: Network Structure in Cooperation, Communication, and Epistemology" |
March 23-25 |
Irvine/Florence Workshop |
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Spring Quarter, 2007:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 6 |
Bob Geroch |
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May 4 |
Patrick Forber |
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May 18 |
Ken Waters |
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May 25 |
Laura R. Franklin-Hall |
“A Third Way? Prospects for Modular Anti-Reductionism in Developmental Biology” |
June 1 |
Jon Jarrett |
"The Romance of Entanglement: Completeness, Separability, and Passion-at-a-Distance" |
June 8 |
John Rapalino |
2005-2006
Fall Quarter, 2005:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 14 |
Lisa Shabel |
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October 21 |
Wolfram Pohlers |
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October 28 |
Ulrich Pardey |
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November 4 |
Zoltan Szabo |
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November 18 |
Robert Di Salle |
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December 2 |
Michael O. Hardimon |
Winter Quarter, 2006:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 13 |
Richard Mendelsohn |
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February 3 |
Stephan Hartmann |
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February 11 |
FregeFest |
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February 17 - 19 |
Laguna Workshop |
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March 10 |
Alan Richardson |
"Whither Philosophy of Science? Logical Empiricism and Philosophy of Science in the Early Twenty-First Century" |
Spring Quarter, 2006
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 28 |
Thomas Hofweber |
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May 4 |
Jonathan Kaplan |
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May 26 |
Arthur Fine |
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June 9 |
Matthew Ostrow |
2004-2005
Fall Quarter, 2004:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 8 |
Tim Shanahan |
"Why Don't Zebras Have Machine Guns? Recent (and Not so Recent) Work on Adaptationism and Constraint" |
October 22 |
Mark Balaguer |
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November 5 |
Brian Woodcock |
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December 3 |
Chris Smeenk |
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December 10 |
Richard Zach |
Winter Quarter, 2005:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 14 |
Paul Pietroski |
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January 28 |
Heidi Maibom |
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February 11 |
Peter Koellner |
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February 16
non-standard
day; 3 pm |
Jeremy Butterfield |
"Relationism and the Rigid Body: Counting Possibilities in Mechanics" |
March 4 |
Ben Escoto |
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March 16
non-standard day; 3 pm
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Don Fallis |
"Epistemic Value Theory and Judgment Aggregation: From the Doctrinal Paradox to the Lottery Paradox?" |
March 18 |
James Woodward |
Spring Quarter, 2005
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 22 |
Sherrilyn Roush |
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May 13 |
Steven Downes |
"The Animal Within: The Application of Animal Behavior Models in the Explanation of Human Behavior" |
May 20 |
Simon Huttegger |
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May 27 |
Gila Sher |
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June 3 |
Charles Parsons |
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June 20
non-standard
day; 3 pm
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Michael Strevens |
"Scientists Don’t Know What Their Own Theories Say... |
2003-2004
Fall Quarter, 2003:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 26 |
David C. McCarty |
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October 10 |
Tyler Burge |
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October 24 |
Daniela M. Bailer-Jones |
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November 7 |
C. Anthony Anderson |
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November 21 |
Edward N. Zalta |
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December 5 |
John MacFarlane |
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December 12 |
Matt Foreman |
Cancelled |
Winter Quarter, 2004:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 23 |
Branden Fitelson |
"A User-Friendly Probability Machine, with Applications to Bayesian Philosophy of Science" |
January 30 |
Krister Segerberg |
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February 20 |
William Bechtel |
"Mechanism and Biological Explanation" |
February 27 |
James Higginbotham |
"Sententialism" |
March 19 |
Nuel Belnap |
"How causal probabilities might fit into our objectively indeterministic world" |
Spring Quarter, 2004:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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April 9 |
Diego Marconi |
"Neuropsychological data, intuitions, and semantic theories" |
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April 16 |
David E. Rowe |
"Mathematical Motifs in the Early History of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity" |
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May 1 |
Fregefest
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Fregefest web page http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~kai/fregefest.html |
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May 7 |
Chris Smeenk |
Cancelled |
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May 14 |
Peter Ludlow |
"LF and Natural Logic: |
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May 21 |
Michael Resnik |
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May 28 |
Byeong-Uk Yi |
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June 4 |
Kevin Kelly |
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June 11 |
Sherri Roush |
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2002-2003
Fall Quarter, 2002:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 4 |
Bill Harper |
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October 18 |
Marc Lange |
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Ocotber 26 |
Logical Constants Workshop |
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November 15 |
Bill Harms |
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November 22 |
Bob Batterman |
Winter Quarter, 2003:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 24 |
Ernie Lepore |
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February 7 |
Elliott Sober |
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February 14 |
Elaine Landry |
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February 21 |
Stephen Yablo |
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February 28 |
Lawrence Sklar |
"Scientific Idealization and Scientific Reality" Please note: 7:30 p.m. Social Science Lecture Hall 100 |
March 7 |
John Burgess |
Spring Quarter, 2003:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 4 |
Michael Glanzberg |
"Presuppositions, Truth Values, and Expressing Propositions" |
April 10 |
Thomas Forster |
"Evolution of the Platonic workshop: the manufacture of new mathematical entities" |
April 11 |
Wolfgang Spöhn |
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May 2 |
Paolo Mancosu |
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May 9 |
Miklós Rédei |
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May 16 |
Rick Grush |
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May 30 |
Christopher Martin |
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2001-2002
Fall Quarter, 2001:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 19 |
Kenneth Taylor |
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October 26 |
Ken Akiba |
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November 9 |
Alasdair Urquhart |
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November 30 |
Harvey Friedman |
Winter Quarter, 2002:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 10 |
Patricia Marino |
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January 11 |
Chris Pincock |
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January 18 |
Christopher Stephens |
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January 25 |
Mathias Frisch |
"Classical Electrodynamics and the Role |
February 1 |
Kai Wehmeier |
"Weakening the comprehension principle in |
February 7 |
Persi Diaconis |
"Coincidence" |
February 8 |
Richard Jeffrey |
"After the Unbearable Heaviness of |
February 15 |
Daniel Steel |
"Dispensing with Ceteris Paribus: Mechanisms, |
February 22 |
John Horty |
"A Logic for Action, |
March 1 |
William Demopoulos |
On the Rational Reconstruction of our Theoretical Knowledge" |
March 5 |
Juliet Floyd |
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March 5 |
Akihiro Kanamori |
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March 15 |
Benedikt Loewe |
Spring Quarter, 2002:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 5 |
Richard Heck |
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May 3 |
Jeff King |
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May 10 |
Rohit Parikh |
"Finite Information Logic" |
May 31 |
Jim Joyce |
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June 7 |
Michael Detlefsen |
2000-2001
Fall Quarter, 2000:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 6 |
Richard Creath |
" The Arc of an Argument: |
October 20 |
Richard Healey |
" Gauge Potentials: |
October 27 |
Laura Ruetsche |
" In space, no one can hear you steam: Hawking radiation, |
November 3 |
Achille Varzi |
"Sense and reference of event names" |
December 1 |
Jamie Tappenden |
“A Reassessment of the Mathematical Roots of Frege's Logicism: |
Winter Quarter, 2001:
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 12, 2001 |
Alva Noë |
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January 19, 2001 |
Jonathan Cohen |
" Color Properties and Color Experience: |
January 26, 2001 |
Richard Zach |
"The Practice of Finitism -- epsilon-Calculus |
February 2, 2001 |
Thomas Polger |
"Putnam's Intuition: |
Febryary 9, 2001 |
Kent Johnson |
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February 23, 2001 |
Mark Wilson |
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March 16, 2001 4pm |
Robert Stalnaker |
Spring Quarter, 2001:
April 6, 2001 |
Michael Stöltzner |
" Opportunistic Axiomatics |
April 20, 2001 |
Volker Halbach |
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May 4, 2001 |
Thomas Forster |
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May 18, 2001 |
Vann McGee |
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May 25, 2001 |
Thomas Forster |
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June 1, 2001 |
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
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June 8, 2001 |
Craig Callender |
1999-2000
All colloquia take place in SSPB 1208 at 3pm, unless noted otherwise.
Fall Quarter 1999
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
October 1, 1999 |
Roger Wertheimer |
"Translating Logic" |
October 15, 1999 |
Richmond Thomason |
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October 21, 1999 |
Solomon Feferman |
"In the Light of Logic" |
October 22, 1999 |
Anita B. Feferman |
"Clues from the Tarski Archives: A Story and a Journal" |
November 12, 1999 |
Jeffrey Bub |
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November 29, 1999 |
Michael Ruse |
" Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?" |
December 3, 1999 |
Harvey Friedman |
Canceled |
December 10, 1999 |
Hartry Field |
"Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle" |
Winter and Spring 2000
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 19, 2000 |
Jason Alexander |
"The Evolution of Distributive Justice" |
January 21, 2000 |
David Cunning |
"Resolving Cartesian Confusions" |
February 11, 2000 |
Patricia Blanchette |
"Frege's Metatheory" |
February 25, 2000 |
William Harper |
"Resilient Measurement: |
March 17, 2000 |
Jody Azzouni |
"Truth" |
March 24, 2000 |
Carl Wagner |
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April 13, 2000 |
Wolfgang Spohn |
"Dispositions Revisited" |
May 26, 2000 |
Hans Halverson |
"Does Relativity Imply Quantum Nonlocality? |
June 2, 2000 |
Harvey Friedman |
Normal Mathematics Needs New Axioms! |
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