lunchtime colloquium 2003-04 and other talks

 
September 2003

::: Brain Time and Phenomenological Time
Rick Grush, University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, 9 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Use and the Study of Scientific Analogies
Daniela Bailer-Jones, University of Bonn
Friday, 12 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Leibniz at Work
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 16 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: How to Peel an Apple? On modeling continuous action
Thomas Müller, University of Bonn
Friday, 19 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Notion of ‘Dedicated’ Neural Systems: A Work-in-Progress
Brian Keeley, Pitzer College
Tuesday, 23 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Challenges of Complexity: Information and Computational Dynamics
     in Nature and Society
Klaus Mainzer, University of Augsburg
Friday, 26 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: An Epistemological History of Atomism
Alan Chalmers, Flinders University
Tuesday, 30 September 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

October 2003

::: The Tracking View of Scientific Evidence
Sherri Roush, Rice University
Friday, 3 October 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Partial Knowledge
Daniel Andler, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
& Ecole normale supérieure
Tuesday, 7 October 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Genes, Behaviors, and the Brain
Kenneth Schaffner, George Washington University
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

The Imperfect Universe
Ofer Gal, Ben Gurion University
Friday, 17 October 2003
(co-sponsored by HPS Dept)
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Non-individualistic Internalism and its Applicability to Science
Tetsuji Iseda, Nagoya University
Tuesday, 28 October 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

November 2003

::: Pictorial Evidence
Laura Perini, Virginia Tech
Tuesday, 4 November 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: How Causal Probabilities Might Fit Into Our Objectively Indeterministic World
Nuel Belnap, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 11 November 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: What’s Wrong with the Easy Route to the Definition of Subjective Probability?
Jason Grossman, University of Sydney
Tuesday, 25 November 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

December 2003

::: What is a Photon, Really?
David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 2 December 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Philosophical Perspectives of Fuzzy Set-theoretic Models of Causality
Jordi Cat, Indiana University
Tuesday, 9 December 2003
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

January 2004

::: Natural Laws and the Risks of Empiricism
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 13 January 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: There’s No Easy Road to Nominalism
Mark Colyvan, University of Queensland
Tuesday, 20 January 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Duhem, Quine and the Other Dogma
Alexander Afriat, University of Urbino
Friday, 23 January 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: New Directions in Philosophy of Science
Janet Kourany, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, 27 January 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: How Many Universes ARE There, Anyway?
George Gale, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Friday, 30 January 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

February 2004

::: Method and Freedom in Spinoza’s System
Vana Grigoropoulou, University of Athens
Tuesday, 3 February 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Instinct in the ‘50s: The British Reception
    of Konrad Lorenz’s Theory of Instinctive Behavior
Paul Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 10 February 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Developmental Challenge to Genetic Determinism:
    A Model Explanation for Sexual Attraction
Christopher D. Horvath, Illinois State University
Friday, 13 February 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Metaphysics of Rest in Cartesian Physics
Tad Schmaltz, Duke University
Friday, 27 February 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

March 2004

::: Ontology Without Tears: A Solution to the Problem of Abstract Objects
    (That Even a Naturalist Could Love)
Edward Zalta, Stanford University
Tuesday, 2 March 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Dissenting Voices: Divergent Conceptions of the Continuum
     in 19th and Early 20th Century Mathematics and Philosophy
John L. Bell, University of Western Ontario
Friday, 5 March 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Defining Fitness: A Measurement Theoretical Approach
Günter P. Wagner, Yale University
Tuesday, 16 March 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Formal Teleology, Modality or Structural Realism?
    On What We Can Still Learn from the Principle of Least Action
Michael Stöltzner, University of Bielefeld and Notre Dame
Tuesday, 23 March 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: The Evolution of the Platonic Toolkit
Thomas Forster, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, 30 March 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

April 2004

::: The Rise of non-Archimedean Mathematics and the Roots of a Misconception I:
    the Emergence of non-Archimedean Grössensysteme
Philip Ehrlich, Ohio University
Friday, 2 April 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: Geometrical Aspects of Local Gauge Symmetry
Alexandre Guay, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 6 April 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm

::: No, Really—the Problem of Time
Gordon Belot, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 13 April 2004
817R Cathedral of Learning, 12:05 pm