lunchtime colloquium 2004-05 and other talks

September 2004

::: Problems of Quantifying Knowledge
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, 10 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Church-Turing Theses
Oron Shagrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday, 14 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Images, Evidence, and Pictorial Convention
Laura Perini, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Friday, 17 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Selective Scepticism and Structural Realism
Anjan Chakravartty, University of Toronto
Tuesday, 21 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Statistics for Bayesian Philosophers (and Some Others)
Jason Grossman, University of Sydney
Friday, 24 September 2004

::: What's the Use of Introspection?
Dominic Murphy, California Institute of Technology
Tuesday, 28 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

October 2004

::: Cartwright's Theorem and Procedural Approach to Causality
Pawel Kawalec, Catholic University of Lublin
Tuesday, 5 October 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: On Reductionism in the Philosophy of Social Science:
    The Individualism-Holism Debate
Radu Dudau, University of Iasi
Friday, 15 October 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Can Any Description of Reality Be Completed?
Tomasz Placek, Jagellion University
Tuesday, 19 October 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Spuntar lo scoglio più duro: Did Galileo ever think the most beautiful
    thought experiment in the history of science?
Paolo Palmieri, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 28 September 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Statistical Inference in Quantum Mechanics
Jos Uffink, Utrecht University
Tuesday, 26 October 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

November 2004

::: On the Ontological Aspects of a Consistent Relativistic Conception of Truth
Lorenz Puntel, University of Munich
Tuesday, 2 November 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Who is a Modeler?
Michael Weisberg, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 5 November 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: On the Gärdenfors Impossibility Theorem
Neil Tennant, Ohio State University
Tuesday, 9 November 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Ockham's Razor and the Highway to the Truth:
     a Kinky Resolution of the Realism Debate
Kevin T. Kelly, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, 12 November 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: On Weapons (and War) Research
John Forge, Griffith University
Tuesday, 16 November 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

December 2004

::: De-linearising Mathematical Notation
Thomas Forster, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, 7 December 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

Descartes’ Regulae in the Light of his Early Mathematics
Ken Manders, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, 10 December 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

January 2005

::: Extrapolation, Capacities, and Mechanisms
Daniel Steel, Michigan State University
Friday, 14 January 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Action Explanation, Weakness of the Will and Bounded Rationality
Antonio Zilhao, Lisbon University
Tuesday, 18 January 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Holism and Nonsupervenience in Quantum Mechanics
Martin Thomson-Jones, Oberlin College
Tuesday, 25 January 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Misunderstandings About Fitness, Variance, and Skew
Jessica Pfeifer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Friday, 28 January 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

February 2005

::: Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 15 February 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Do We Have the Right Limitative Theorems?
Allen Hazen, University of Melbourne
Friday, 18 February 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: William Harvey's 'Conceptual' Teleology: Goal-directed Causation in De conceptione
Jim Lennox, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: First-Order Classical Modal Logic
Horacio Arlo-Costa, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, 25 February 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

March 2005

::: Towards Relativistic Quantum Histories: A Branching Space-Times Approach
Thomas Müller, University of Bonn
Tuesday, 1 March 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Turning Point: Quine's Indeterminacy of Translation at Middle Age
Richard Creath, Arizona State University
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Quine's Early Arguments Concerning Analyticity
Gary Hardcastle, Bloomsburg University
Friday, 25 March 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: With Genes Like That Who Needs An Environment?
    Genomics' Argument Against Genetic Determinism
Karola Stotz, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 29 March 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

April 2005

::: Aristotelian Rationality
Anselm Müller, University of Trier
Tuesday, 5 April 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Analogical Reasoning in the Logical Structure of Scientific Law
Dale Jacquette, Pennsylvania State University
Friday, 8 April 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Unanswerable Questions and Unknowable Facts
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Are Anti-Particles Just Particles Traveling Back In Time?
Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers University
Friday, 15 April 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Symmetry and Its Formalisms
Alexandre Guay, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm