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LOGIC
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LOGIC
AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Colloquia 2001/2002 |
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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 19 | Kenneth Taylor Stanford University |
"What's in a Name?" |
| October 26 | Ken Akiba University of Missouri |
"Vagueness in the World" |
| November 9 | Alasdair Urquhart University of Toronto |
"Anomalous Objects" |
| November 30 | Harvey Friedman The Ohio State University |
"The Current Status of the Foundations of Mathematics" |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 10 *Thursday* 3:30 |
Patricia Marino U. C. Irvine |
"A New Kind of Victory for Truth as Correspondence" |
| January 11 | Chris Pincock U.C. Berkeley |
"A New Perspective on Applying Mathematics" |
| January 18 | Christopher Stephens University of Oklahoma |
"When is it Selectively Advantageous to Have True Beliefs?" |
| January 25 | Mathias Frisch Northwestern University |
"Classical Electrodynamics and the Role of Consistency in Scientific Theorizing" |
| February 1 | Kai Wehmeier Universität Tübingen |
"Weakening the comprehension
principle in Frege's Grundgesetze" |
| February 7 7:30 p.m. SSPA 1100 |
Persi Diaconis Stanford University UCI Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow |
"Coincidence" |
| February 8 | Richard Jeffrey Princeton University |
"After the Unbearable Heaviness of Logical Empiricism" |
| February 15 | Daniel Steel University of Pittsburgh |
"Dispensing with Ceteris Paribus: Mechanisms, Interfering Factors, and Exporting Causal Generalizations" |
| February 22 | John Horty University of Maryland |
"A Logic for Action, with Applications in Ethics" |
| March 1 | William Demopoulos University of Western Ontario |
On the Rational Reconstruction of our Theoretical Knowledge" |
| March 5 *Tuesday* |
Juliet Floyd 3:00 p.m. Boston University |
"Wittgenstein's Remarks on Gödel"? |
| March 5 *Tuesday* |
Akihiro Kanamori 4:30 p.m. Boston University |
"The Empty Set, the Singleton, and the Ordered Pair" |
| March 15 | Benedikt Loewe Universität Bonn Visiting Scholar, UC Irvine |
"Two Case Studies of Mathematical Modelling in Philosophy" |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| April 5 | Richard Heck Harvard University |
"T-Sentences" |
| May 3 | Jeff King U.C. Davis |
"A Puzzle About Fear (And Suspicion, And Memory, And...)" |
| May 10 | Rohit Parikh City University of New York |
"Finite Information Logic" |
| May 31 | Jim Joyce University of Michigan California Institute of Technology |
"Causal Reasoning and Backtracking" |
| June 7 | Michael Detlefsen Notre Dame University |
"Creation and Completeness" |