| LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Colloquia 2004/2005
Fall quarter schedule |
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| LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Colloquia 2004/2005
Fall quarter schedule |
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All colloquia take place on Friday at 3pm in SST 777 (GPACS
Conference room),
unless otherwise noted.
For further information about a talk listed below, click on the title.
See also:
Philosophy Department
Colloquia
or look at past colloquia.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October
8 |
Tim
Shanahan Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles |
"Why Don't Zebras Have
Machine Guns? Recent (and Not so
Recent) Work on Adaptationism and Constraint" |
| October 22 | Mark
Balaguer California State University, Los Angeles |
"Indexical
Propositions and De Re Belief Ascriptions" |
| November 5 | Brian
Woodcock University of California, Irvine |
"Problems and
Pseudo-Problems for Hyperplane Dependence" |
| December 3 | Chris
Smeenk University of California, Los Angeles |
"Fine
Tuning Problems in Cosmology" |
| December 10 |
Richard
Zach University of Calgary; UCI Visiting Fellow |
"How
to
Argue For and Against a Logic of Vagueness"
|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January
14 |
Paul
Pietroski University of Maryland |
"Human Syntax, and Why Philosophers Should Care" |
| January
28 |
Heidi Maibom Carleton University |
"Moral
Unreason: The
Case of Psychopathy" |
| February 11 |
Peter Koellner Harvard University |
"On
Some Recent Developments in the Search for New Axioms" |
| February 16 non-standard
day; 3 pm |
Jeremy Butterfield All Soul's College, Oxford |
"Relationism and the
Rigid Body: Counting Possibilities in Mechanics" |
| March
4 |
Ben Escoto University of California, Irvine |
"A
Bayesian Approach to Probability Coordination" |
| March 16 non-standard day; 3 pm
|
Don Fallis University of Arizona |
"Epistemic
Value Theory
and Judgment Aggregation: From
the Doctrinal Paradox to the Lottery Paradox?" |
| March 18 |
James
Woodward California Institute of Technology |
"Causation with a Human Face" |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| April 22 |
Sherrilyn Roush Rice University |
"Knowledge of Logical Truth" |
| May 13 |
Steven
Downes University of Utah |
"The Animal Within:
The Application of Animal Behavior Models in the Explanation of Human
Behavior" |
| May 20 |
Simon Huttegger University of Salzburg; UCI Visiting Student |
"Efficient Social Contracts and Population Growth" |
| May 27 |
Gila Sher University of California, San Diego |
"Epistemic Friction: A Neo-Quinean Model" |
| June 3 | Charles Parsons Harvard University; UCLA |
"The Problem of Absolute Universality" |
| June 20 non-standard
day; 3 pm
|
Michael Strevens NYU |
"Scientists
Don’t Know What Their Own Theories Say... and It’s a Good Thing Too" |