| LOGIC
AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Colloquia 2000/2001 |
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| LOGIC
AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Colloquia 2000/2001 |
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All colloquia take place at 3pm in SST 777 (GPACS Conference room),
unless otherwise noted.
For further information regarding the specific time and location of
a talk,
click on the appropriate hyperlink.
See also:
Philosophy
Department Colloquia
or look at past
colloquia.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 6 | Richard Creath Arizona State University |
" The Arc of an Argument: Issues and Changes in Quine's Views on Analyticity" |
| October 20 | Richard Healey University of Arizona |
"
Gauge Potentials: Physical Reality or Mathematical Fiction?" |
| October 27 | Laura Ruetsche University of Pittsburgh |
"
In space, no one can hear you steam: Hawking radiation, Rindler quanta, and the interpretation of quantum field theory" (UCI-UCSD Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science) |
| November 3 | Achille Varzi Columbia University |
"Sense and reference of event names" (co-sponsored with the Philosophy & Linguistics colloquium series) |
| December 1 | Jamie Tappenden University of Michigan |
“A Reassessment of the Mathematical
Roots of Frege's Logicism: Some History, Some Philosophy” |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 12, 2001 | Alva Noë University of California, Santa Cruz |
"Is the visual world a grand illusion?" |
| January 19, 2001 | Jonathan Cohen University of British Columbia |
"
Color Properties and Color Experience: When and When Not To Be A Functionalist" |
| January 26, 2001 | Richard Zach University of California, Berkeley |
"The Practice of Finitism --
epsilon-Calculus and Consistency Proofs in Hilbert's Program " |
| February 2, 2001 | Thomas Polger University of Cincinnati |
"Putnam's Intuition: Varieties of Multiple Realizability Worth Wanting " |
| Febryary 9, 2001 | Kent Johnson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
" On Semantic Structure" |
| February 23, 2001 | Mark Wilson University of Pittsburgh |
"On Cracked Reasoning " |
| March 16, 2001 4pm SSPA 2112 Note non-standard time and pace! |
Robert Stalnaker MIT |
"Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and Games" |
| April 6, 2001 | Michael Stöltzner University of California, Irvine Universität Salzburg Institut Wiener Kreis, Vienna |
"
Opportunistic Axiomatics John von Neumann on the Methodology of Mathematical Physics" |
| April 20, 2001 | Volker Halbach University of California, Irvine Universität Konstanz |
" Possible Worlds Semantics for Intensional Predicates" |
| May 4, 2001 | Thomas Forster University of California, Irvine Cambridge University |
" Reasoning about Virtual Entities |
| May 18, 2001 | Vann McGee MIT |
"The Maiasaur Problem" |
| May 25, 2001 | Thomas Forster University of California, Irvine Cambridge University |
"Reasoning about Virtual Entities II" |
| June 1, 2001 | Peter Godfrey-Smith Stanford University |
"Adventures in Indoor Ornithology" |
| June 8, 2001 | Craig Callender UC San Diego |
"Taking Thermodynamics (Too) Seriously" |