lunchtime colloquium 2006-07 and other talks

September 2006

::: Oversimplification
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Some Dirty Little Secrets About Truth
Paul Teller, University of California, Davis, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 15 September 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Galileo's Philosophy of Experience
Paolo Palmieri, University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Relativized A Priori Principles And Revisability Prospects
Boris Grozdanoff, Department of Philosophy
Central European University 
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2006

::: Quantum Symbolism: a Kantian Aspect of Bohr’s Thought
Hernán Pringe, Department of Philosophy
University of Dortmund
Tuesday, 3 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Learning from a Simulated Universe: The Limits of Virtual Experiments in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Stéphanie Ruphy, Department of Philosophy
University of Provence
Friday, 6 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Gauge Principle: Physically Vacuous?
Antigone Nounou, Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Rational Analyses and Approximation in Cognitive Science
David Danks, Department of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Euclidean Geometrical Practice and the Theory of Mathematical Practice. Preliminary report
Kenneth Manders, Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, 27 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Why we talk - Human Language in the Light of Evolution
Jean-Louis Dessalles
ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications Paris
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2006

::: Hypotheses Fingo?
Herschel and the Myth of Hypothetical Science in 19th Century Britain
Laura J. Snyder, St. John's University and Visiting Professor,
Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday,14 November 2006
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2006

No Linch Time Talks

January 2007

::: Nature as Laboratory: Experiments in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brad Wilson, Department of Philosophy
Slippery Rock University
Friday, 19 January 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Idealization and Scientific Modelling
Demetris Portides, Department of Classics and Philosophy
University of Cyprus
Friday, 26 January 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Explanation and Causation: the Metaphysical Arguments
Johannes Persson, Department of Philosophy
University of Lund
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2007

::: The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philisophical and Experimental Issues
Eduard Machery, Department of HPS
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Evolutionary Ethics: Past and Present
Fritz Allhoff, Department of Philosophy
Western Michigan University
Friday 9 February 20007
12:05 Cathedral of Learning

::: Sympathy for Mechanisits
Mark Wilson, Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
12:05 Cathedral of Learning

::: Are Chemical Bonds Real?
Michael Weisberg, Department of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 16 February 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2007

::: Naturalism and Wonder: Charles Peirce on the Logic of Hume’s Argument against Miracles
Catherine Legg, U. of Waikato, New Zealand and current
Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2007

::: Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition in Antiquity: Physics as a Case Study
Andrea Falcon, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Ouch! The Paradox of Pain
Christopher Hill, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
Tuesday, 10 April 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Bios, Praxis and the Unity of Life
James G. Lennox, Departtment of HPS, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning