lunchtime colloquium 2008-09 and other talks

September 2008

::: Intelligence and Evolutionary Innovation
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh , Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Classical Mechanics is Lagrangian; It is not Hamiltonian
Erik Curiel
Friday, 12 September 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Mechanistic Explanation in Top-down Systems Biology
Ulrich Krohs, University of Hamburg
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Science of the Universe? Physical Cosmology and our Limited Horizon
Claus Beisbart, University of Dortmund
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Mathematics and Scientific Representation
Christopher Pincock, Purdue University
Friday, 26 September 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2008

::: Information-Theoretic Statistical Mechanics and the 2nd Law
Daniel Parker, Virginia Tech
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Relativizing the Relativized A Priori: On the Development of Reichenbach’s Axioms of Coordination / Axioms of Connection Distinction
Flavia Padovani, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Why Constructive Relativity Fails
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh, History & Philosophy of Science/Center for Philosophy of Science
Friday, 24 October 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Interdisciplinarity - a roadmap of the discussion with indications of some construction sites
Hanne Andersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2008

::: The Relativity of Inertia and the Reality of Nothing
Alexander Afriat, University of Urbino
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: What Is Empirical Testing?
Michael Strevens, New York University, Philosophy
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2008

None

January 2009

February 2009

::: Deductively Definable Logics of Induction
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh, HPS
Tuesday, 3 Febuary 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Against Denoting---Why Rigid Designation and the Causal Theory of Reference Cannot Stand
Erik Curiel, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science
Friday, 13 Febuary 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: History Matters! But Why? And How?
Claus Beisbart, Dortmund University of Technologies
Tuesday, 24 Febuary 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2009

::: Hobbes: Science and the Science of Politics
Martin Bertman, University of Akron
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Topologies’ of Time in the 1920s: Lewin, Carnap, Reichenbach
Flavia Padovani, U. Geneva
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2009

::: The Evolutionary Function of Moral Projection
Kyle Stanfod, University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning